# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gillian-kearney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:11:34.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gillian-kearney"
name: "Gillian Kearney"
slug: "gillian-kearney"
description: "Gillian Louise Kearney is an English actress best known for her early role as Debbie McGrath in Channel 4's Liverpool-based soap opera Brookside and the spin-off mini-series Damon and Debbie, and for playing Jessica Harrison in the long-running BBC television medical drama series Casualty, as well as Emma Barton in the ITV Yorkshire-based soap opera Emmerdale. The role of Emma gained her recognition because of her character's involvement in Emmerdale’s most high-profile storylines during her three-year stint."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xNHxhjPmN1SBelePMvjd2rGG1bN.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1972-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.784824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0443937/"
    handle:    "nm0443937"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%86%DB%8C"
    title: "گیلین کیرنی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Kearney"
    title: "Gillian Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A"
    title: "جيليان كيارني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "جيليان كيارنى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Kearney"
    title: "Gillian Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Kearney"
    title: "Gillian Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Kearney"
    title: "Gillian Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4958435"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/121464"
    title: "Gillian Kearney"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump