Emer Kenny welcomed her son in January 2023. The name and details of the child are known.
She is best known for playing Zsa Zsa Carter in EastEnders and its spin-Off EastEnders: E20, Danielle Reeves in Pramface and Penelope “Bunty” Windermere in Father Brown.
In 2010, Kenny was painted by Rolf Harris as Titania from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for an edition of BBC TV Arena. Kenny wrote a further episode of EastEnders: E20 for series three in 2011 and was selected as the youngest ever writer for the BBC Writers Academy where she trained to write for programmes such as EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City and Doctors.
In 2021, it was announced that Kenny would write and co-star in the ITV crime drama Karen Pirie adapted from the Karen Pirie novels of Val McDermid.