# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kay-purcell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:45:25.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kay-purcell"
name: "Kay Purcell"
slug: "kay-purcell"
description: "Kay Purcell was an English actress. She was best known for portraying the roles of Cynthia Daggert in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale (2001–2002), Candice Smilie in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2007–2009), and Gina Conway in the CBBC drama series Tracy Beaker Returns (2010–2012) and its spin-off series The Dumping Ground (2013). From 2015 to 2017, she appeared as Mrs. Rennison in the CBBC sitcom So Awkward."
tagline: "English actress (1963–2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/Kay_Purcell.jpg/330px-Kay_Purcell.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-12-06"
deathDate: "2020-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.970809333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700731/"
    handle:    "nm0700731"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%92_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "کے پورسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Purcell"
    title: "Kay Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Purcell"
    title: "Kay Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Purcell"
    title: "Kay Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Purcell"
    title: "Kay Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Purcell"
    title: "Kay Purcell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22279778"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1365467"
    title: "Kay Purcell"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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