Kay Purcell is a British

United Kingdom

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 actress. She is widely known for her role as Cynthia Daggert in Emmerdale

Emmerdale

Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

, as well as for Candice Smilie in Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road (TV series)

Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...

, and as Gina Conway in Tracy Beaker Returns

Tracy Beaker Returns

Tracy Beaker Returns is a BAFTA winning British children's television series, which premiered on 8 January 2010 on CBBC and BBC HD. Based upon the novels by Jacqueline Wilson, It is the spin-off series to The Story of Tracy Beaker...

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Television Roles

Her first big role was in Emmerdale but before that she had also been in many other programmes including Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

but her main role was as Cynthia Daggert in Emmerdale. She had previously been in Emmerdale as Carmel Morgan in 1997 but Cynthia was introduced in 2001 as a regular role.

Since October in 2007 she played the role of Head Dinner lady Candice Smilie in the BBC Drama Waterloo Road

Waterloo Road (TV series)

Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...

. She also was cast in My Parents are aliens (a TV series on CITV) twice as different characters firstly as a drama coach in the episode "First Christmas" from the end of series two in 2000 then in series 8 playing a social worker in 2006. She played Gina Conway in the first series of Tracy Beaker Returns

Tracy Beaker Returns

Tracy Beaker Returns is a BAFTA winning British children's television series, which premiered on 8 January 2010 on CBBC and BBC HD. Based upon the novels by Jacqueline Wilson, It is the spin-off series to The Story of Tracy Beaker...

in 2010. She was also in Celebrity Fit Club as herself in 2002.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1995	Cracker - True Romance Part 2	News reporter (Voice only)
1995	City Central - Paradise Lost	Jenny
1998	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	WCD McCarthy
2000	Casualty Casualty (TV series) Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...	Diane Abley
1997, 1998	Emmerdale Emmerdale Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...	Carmel Morgan
2001, 2002	Emmerdale Emmerdale Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...	Cynthia Daggert
2003	Holby City Holby City Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...	Heather Nixon
2004	Sex Lives Of The Potato Men Sex Lives of the Potato Men Sex Lives of the Potato Men is a British comedy film released in 2004.The film is about the sexual antics of a group of potato delivery men in Birmingham and stars Johnny Vegas and Mackenzie Crook....	Gloria
Mesiah:The Harrowing	Prof Uhomi
2005	Doctors	Mrs Jane Manners
2006	Ideal Ideal (TV series) Ideal is a British comedy-drama, or dark comedy originally broadcast on digital channel BBC Three, created by Graham Duff and produced by BBC Comedy North and Baby Cow Productions. It stars Johnny Vegas as small-time cannabis dealer Moz....	Alice
2006	My Parents Are Aliens My Parents are Aliens My Parents are Aliens is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television and later Granada Productions for CITV about an eccentric family, which was produced as seven annual series, first broadcast in 1999 and ending in 2006...	Mrs Brookman
2007, 2009, 2010	Waterloo Road Waterloo Road (TV series) Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...	Candice Smiley
2010–Present	Tracy Beaker Returns Tracy Beaker Returns Tracy Beaker Returns is a BAFTA winning British children's television series, which premiered on 8 January 2010 on CBBC and BBC HD. Based upon the novels by Jacqueline Wilson, It is the spin-off series to The Story of Tracy Beaker...	Gina Conway
2011	Remote Control Star	Herself

Emmerdale

Kay Purcell played Cynthia Daggert in Emmerdale. Cynthia and her two sons arrived in Emmerdale in June 2001, but almost as soon as they arrived problems began to occur. Cynthia also had a daughter Latisha who was heavily pregnant when she arrived soon after the rest of the Daggert family. Cynthia herself was frequently arguing with Carol Waring. Purcell says that Cynthia was just trying to give her family a fresh start, but they seemed to have an awful lot of bad luck. Kay continued playing Cynthia Daggert until 2002.She also was in bernads watch as Yvonne

Waterloo Road

Purcell has played Candice Smiley in Waterloo Road since 2007. Candice is a single mum in her early forties who has a son called Bolton who is a student at the school. She is very proud of her job as top dinner lady. She had to put aside her differences with Rose Kelly so they could work together. Since the Series 5, she has not had any appearances since Adam Flete came along as head chef.

Tracy Beaker Returns

In this series Kay Purcell plays Gina Conway, short tempered but caring social worker. She has been playing her since 2010. She has a very short temper and shouts but inside she truly cares about the kids. Gina also wears distinctive nail varnishes (wearing the Jamaican flag on her nails in one episode) and is famous for wearing her headscarves.

Family

She has Jamaican ancestry and both her father and husband are Jamaican. She also has one son, Shamair Jarret. He used to attend leyland Methodist schools. Kay used to teach a drama club in the after school club at leyland Methodist school. The club did a production of a Christmas carol.

External links

• Kay Purcell's Agency