Emily Merletta

Emilia "Emily" Jane Merletta (b. 30th April 1982) is a Kuboian actress, singer, rapper and model. She rose to fame a prominent child actor and television personality throughout the 1990s. Appearing in various television programmes produced by TVVC. She also saw further success as a musical artist and a model.

Biography
Emilia Jane Merletta was born in Meifahrn, Dominion of Kuboia (now part of West Kuboia) on 30th April 1982, to a British father, Huw Tucker (b. 1951) and a Dutch-Italian mother Caterina Merletta (b. 1952). Her parents originally met in Jetania in the late 1970s and moved to Meifahrn shortly before her birth. Merletta's parents argued frequently and eventually separated when she was four years old. She eventually moved to Gutstone with her aunt, Millie Tucker, at the age of six due to suffering from domestic abuse at the hands of her mother.

After her aunt got a job as a children's presenter for Vision Network in 1988, Merletta was occasionally taken to her work due to Tucker's difficulty finding childcare. She eventually became an actress, making her debut in an episode of [TBA] at the age of seven.

Merletta attended Emerald Forest School, which at the time only ran classes three days a week. She had difficulty finding time for both education and her career, and eventually left at the age of fifteen with only basic, low-level qualifications. She insisted "it was all [she] needed".

Personal life
Due to spending most of her life living with her, Merletta was close to her aunt Millie Tucker, and saw little of her parents throughout her childhood. She continued to live with Tucker until she moved out at the age of twenty. She developed anxiety as a teenager, and struggled with the attention her acting and music careers gave her. The death of Tucker in 2007 reportedly "shattered" Merletta. In mid-2008, she revealed she had been sent to counselling to deal with depression.

Merletta started dating child actor Jack Carole in October 1996; the two had known each other for several years and had appeared in several television shows together. The two ended their relationship in early 2001, though remained close to one another. In 2003, Merletta came out as bisexual.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Merletta was the frequent source of rumours and false accusations, with sources incorrectly citing her as being in relationships with other child actors. In 2009, she was the victim of a death hoax on the internet.

During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Merletta stayed occupied by reading and painting. Later, it was reoprted she was helping her first cousin once removed Nitasha Tucker launch her own singing career.