Screenwriter and govt producer Muirinn Lane Kelly has died. She was 50.

The exec, who has credit for Waterloo Highway and Mistresses within the UK, handed away this week. She was extra not too long ago an govt producer on Sky Atlantic and Epic drama Domina.

Kelly started her profession working at Roger Corman’s Connemara studio for 2 years within the late Nineteen Nineties earlier than transferring into improvement on the BBC, the place she was script editor on reveals resembling Silent Witness and Waking the Lifeless.

She later moved to Ecosse Movies, the place she was a author on BBC One’s Mistresses, which was later remade within the U.S. for ABC. She went on to put in writing for BBC college drama Waterloo Highway and Uncooked for Irish pubcaster RTE1 after which joined Bandit Tv, the place she turned EP on two seasons of Daybreak French comedy Scrumptious.

In 2019, she switched to Banijay-owned Tiger Side Productions, the place she was Director of Growth, working throughout the drama indie’s slate. She was most not too long ago exec producer on the newest season of Domina, which completed filming just a few weeks in the past.

Lucy Bedford, Head of Drama at Tiger Side, mentioned: “We’re heartbroken that our cherished buddy and colleague Muirinn Lane Kelly has handed away. As an Government Producer within the drama staff at Tiger Side and a identified and beloved colleague to many within the trade, Muirinn was a brilliantly proficient artistic, a mentor to many and a stunning, humorous, sometimes outrageous individual to be round.

“She had a real ardour for nurturing and creating expertise and he or she was a fearless advocate for these she believed in. A supply of inspiration and help for therefore many within the trade, a much-loved colleague, and a buddy. She shall be sorely missed.

“Our ideas and love exit to Muirinn’s household, pals and colleagues.”