Gillian Kearney

Gillian Louise Kearney is an English actress best known for playing Jessica Harrison in the longrunning BBC television medical drama series Casualty, her early role as Debbie McGrath in Channel 4s Liverpoolbased soap opera Brookside and the spinoff miniseries Damon and Debbie as well as Emma Barton in the ITV Yorkshirebased soap opera Emmerdale.

One of four children born to Gerard and Barbara Kearney, Gillian Kearney has three brothers Matthew, Peter and Tom, a professional footballer. Her father is a retired civil engineer and her mother a school care worker. Growing up in Aigburth, she attended St. John Almond RC High School, Garston, where she gained nine GCSEs and four Alevels.

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