Lists of Coronation Street characters

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This page contains information on characters from the British soap opera Coronation Street, that appear on a recurring or minor basis. Some of these characters have appeared on and off over the years whereas in the case of others, namely babies, have been around for years but only appear every now and again and rarely, if ever, actually speak.

Joshua Peacock

Joshua Peacock was first played by Brandon Jackson however has been played by Stephen Collins since 2004. He is currently played by Benjamin Beresford.

Joshua was born on the 8th April 2002 at Weatherfield General Hospital. He is the son of Maxine Peacock. At first it was believed that Maxine's husband Ashley Peacock was his father, however it was revealed that Maxine had had a one-night stand with Matt Ramsden, Joshua's real father. Ashley was listed as Joshua's father on his birth certificate and has bought him up as his own.

Maxine was killed by Richard Hillman when Joshua was just nine months old. Joshua now has a stepmother, Claire Peacock, who started off as his nanny. Shortly after Claire found out she was pregnant, Matt got in touch with Ashley and requested to see his son. Matt has now visited Joshua and has regular contact with him. Claire and Ashley had a baby boy, Freddie in July 2006, a brother for Joshua, whom they named after Fred Elliott, his grandfather.

Amber Kalirai

Template:Coronation Street character Amber Kalirai (played by Nikki Patel) is the long lost daughter of Dev Alahan (Jimmi Harkishin) and works in his corner shop when not at school. She first arrived on November 9th, 2005, when her mum Ravinder was taken into hospital and she was looked after by Sunita and her dad Dev on the Street. Amber started helping out in the corner shop but her incessant chat wound up Dev.

Initially Dev did not want Amber in his life as he was married to Sunita Parekh at the time and she served as a reminder of his philandering ways. However, he warmed to her and she came to live with him after her mother Ravinder moved to Finland with her partner. She had a crush on fellow neighbour David Platt but he was initially unaware of her feelings. When he did confront her, she denied it.

In early 2008, Amber began working at Valandros restaurant with Leanne, Paul and Luigi until it was set alight by Paul. Dev then claimed that he did not want her any where near Paul.

Freddie Peacock

Frederick "Freddie" Thomas Peacock (né Thomas Duncan Peacock) was born on 17 July 2006 to Claire and Ashley Peacock. Freddie was caught in the Peacock's fire on 8 May 2007. Freddie was found safely on 21 May, and returned to his parents in hospital.

Freddie's mother Claire suffered from post-natal depression soon after Freddie was born. She believed that Freddie wasn't her own and that she had got the wrong baby. On one occasion, she pushed his pram into the path of an oncoming vehicle but luckily the driver stopped before hitting him. His mother was then sectioned and was soon well enough to come home and look after him again

In October 2006, Claire announced that she would like to have his name changed from Thomas to Freddie, after his paternal grandfather (who had died only a week before), so Thomas's name was changed accordingly. In December 2006 he was christened Frederick Thomas, with Eileen Grimshaw as his godmother, and Roy Cropper as his godfather.

Freddie went missing when he was taken by Claire's friend, who she met through the Weatherfield Women In Crisis hotline, Casey Carswell. Casey meant no harm, but was offended when Claire called the police when she found Freddie missing.

In May 2007, after his father and stepbrother Josh went out for a few days, Claire's neighbour Eileen put Freddie to bed and Claire herself went to bed shortly after. Not long after, she was woken by the smoke alarm, and to her shock found a fire was had been started in Freddie's bedroom. Claire in shock fell down the stairs into unconsciousness, but was shortly after rescued by Jamie and Kirk. As news spread that Freddie had not be rescued from the fire, residents believed the worse. It wasn't until Ashley returned on May 21 to the Street and spoke to investigators, that they informed the couple that Freddie had not been in the house when the fire began.

Freddie was found later in the day wrapped up in a local park. It was revealed that the fire was started deliberately by use of an accelerant which has led to confusion for his parents. Originally, this storyline was to last several months, not one day, but it was changed to avoid upsetting the family of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared two weeks earlier, and has still not been found.[1]

In September 2007 the identity of Freddie's abductor was revealed to be Casey, as she had been seen around Weatherfield since. Casey abducted Freddie and took him to the balcony of her flat where she threatened to jump with him. Fortunately Casey did not jump and Freddie was unharmed. Casey was arrested on the spot. His parents briefly split but have now got back together.

Roger Stiles

Roger Stiles, played by actor Andrew Dunn is a plumber in the soap who went round to fix Janice Battersby's heating in 2007 when her boiler broke down. After a couple of "dates" in the Rovers he invited Janice to go to France with him for three months as he had work there, and she accepted. Janice returned alone in March and he returned two months later. In 2007, he invested £10,000 in Leanne Battersby's restaurant, which Leanne at first struggled to pay back but eventually did so. Janice and Roger are now living together because Roger was struggling to pay his rent due to his loan to Leanne. He saved the Barlows' kitchen roof in May 2008 and has now struck up a friendship with Ken.

Wiki Dankowska

Wiki Dankowska (IPA: [vɪ.kɪ dæn.kaʊ.skæ]) is played by Wanda Opalinska and made her first appearance on 26 February 2007. Wiki (pronounced as Viki) first appeared as a new employee of Carla Connor at the Underworld factory. She was recruited by Becky Grainger to work the evening shift at Underworld. It didn’t take long for Wiki’s hard work to be rewarded and she was given a permanent job at the factory. As a Polish immigrant, she was paid less than other employees, and they became concerned that their pay would be affected by this. She was bullied by Joanne Jackson and Janice Battersby, but Hayley Cropper secured her equal pay from Liam Connor, when the workers went on strike after Sean Tully was fired by Liam's brother Paul.

She is the only factory worker to have seen Kasia Barowicz fall and die in the factory during an illegal shift. Paul, Carla and Liam covered up Kasia's death until 8:00am the following morning, when the death would be covered by their insurance. Wiki went along with this when Carla told her that if they didn't do this, Kasia's family would get no compensation money.

Wiki has a son back home in Poland, aged 21, and she is working in Underworld to support him. She has started her own business, selling underwear.

Darryl Morton

Darryl Morton is portrayed by former Grange Hill actor Jonathan Dixon, [2] real life friend of Jack P. Shepherd[3] and first appeared onscreen March 18 2007. On April 26 2008 it was announced that Darryl had been axed from the show along with the rest of the Morton family in 2008. [4]

A typical roguish member of his dysfunctional clan, he lives in the shed of the garden of Number 6. He has been in trouble with the law for several motoring offences, and was horrified when twin sister Mel said she planned to join the police. After the character's arrival he was in the background, and not much known about him. There was question about his and the rest of his character's family's popularity with the viewing public.[5]

In April 2007 it was announced that the character would be involved in a heavy marijuana smoking scene with Vernon Tomlin. Although this scene never aired.

We do not set out to shock and sensationalise.

Although the scene didn't air eventually, there was a milder scene at the Morton's housewarming party where Vernon took on a mellow disposition after smoking a joint Darryl gave him.

On 16 September 2007, Darryl's friend 'Stig' asked him to look after some ecstasy tablets. Afraid that his dad would find them, he asked David Platt to look after them, but he hid them in one of his niece's dolls.[6] However, when Bethany swallowed one, David decided to protect his friend and bailed Darryl out by taking the blame for possession. The storyline also received some criticism.

After a brief flirtation in the rovers with barmaid Lauren Wilson, Darryl began dating her. After a few dates of playing hard to get, they bagen seeing each other on a more regular basis. He often pays for their dates and drinks, even though Mel told him that his money is the only reason she is interested. Their involvement with each other came to an end when Lauren became angry with him having no money, and said they were never an item.

Mel Morton

Template:Coronation Street character Melanie "Mel" Morton, played by Emma Edmondson, is the more responsible member of her roguish family, amd is close to her twin brother Darryl, although he was horrified after Mel announced that she intended to join the police.

David Platt developed a crush on Mel. When she was going to meet him at the cinema Sarah Platt told Mel about his crush on her and about previous relationships he had had. Mel stood him up, and to get his revenge he spread gossip that he had slept with Mel. He was eventually dragged into Jerry's takeaway by Gail Platt to apologise to Mel.

In February 2008, Mel became WPC Morton, joining her friend Abi Sharpe. [7]

Mel has argued and took great dislike to her mother when she returned in May 2008, to help care for Kayleigh and Finlay after Jerry had suffered from a heart attack and recovered while he was in hospital.

On April 26 2008 it was announced that the character of Mel was axed by new producer Kim Crowther.

Finlay Bryant

Finlay Bryant, portrayed by Ramone Quinn is the son of Teresa Bryant, ex-wife of Jerry Morton. In April 2007, Jerry discovered that Teresa had gone on holiday, leaving their daughter Kayleigh and her half-brother Finlay on their own. Jerry took the children back home with him, so Finlay currently lives with the rest of the Mortons at No 6 Coronation Street. He is known for letting the air out of people's tyres and was warned by Jodie, about doing so. He was also paid by Kayleigh to keep quiet about her clubbing. In June 2008, Teresa briefly conned Lloyd Mullaney into thinking Finlay was his son. On April 26 2008 it was announced that the character would depart in 2008 with the rest of the Morton family.

Marcus Dent

Marcus Dent is a Sonographer at Weatherfield General Hospital, introduced when Violet Wilson went for a scan. He gave his number to Sean Tully who was also present at the scan. The two started dating but Sean was unsure how the relationship should progress. Sean tricked Marcus into revealing the sex of the baby to him after he wanted to know and Violet didn't. This led to a rough patch in the relationship, but was overcome and the couple remained together happily. Marcus and his partner Sean delivered Violet and Sean's son when Violet went into labour in The Rovers on 22nd February 2008. He was by the side of Maria Connor as she gave birth to her stillborn baby. Marcus and Sean are now planning to move into a flat together, but plans go astray when Tony Gordon fires Sean from the Underworld, but Tony later gives Sean his job back, which looms in the days leading up to Marcus's departure.

Abi Sharpe

Police Constable Abi Sharpe is played by actress Rachael Elizabeth. Abi is a police officer, first seen in 2007, and is friends with Mel Morton. She has had an on off flirtatious relationship with Dan Mason. Abi flirted with Mel's twin brother, Darryl on their 19th birthday, to console him after Lauren Wilson had dumped him.

It was thought that Abi had gone, but she was seen on 7th July 2008, helping Mel sort out her father, Jerry, after he had recently had a heart attack and was drinking alcohol. Mel also asked her to do a police check on her mother's ex boyfriend whom she claimed beat her.

Tom Kerrigan

Tom Kerrigan, played by Philip McGinley, returned to Coronation Street in June 2008. He had previously been seen at Liam's stag party in February. On his return, he began to get romantic with Carla in the Rovers Return, his cousin's widow much to her fiance, Tony Gordon's suspicion. Tom later appeared in July, discussing business with Liam. Although Maria did not think of it being business, as they were playing board games and drinking beer. Tom is currently appearing, he has particuarly been seen at the proposals of of his cousin, Michelle and her boyfriend, Steves marriage.

Julie Carp

Julie Carp is played by Katy Kavanagh. She first appeared in the soap waiting at the Rovers, where she briefly spoke to Dev Alahan, she was waiting her boyfriend, Kirk Sutherland to arrive. She has so far clashed with Fiz Brown and has appeared on several occations, including Kirk's nephew, Paul's funeral. She is a bubbly character who likes to think she shares a personal empathy with other people's problems. This was particularly evident at the funeral of baby Paul as she was very moved by the sadness of the occasion.

Julie's appearances tend to be seen either with Kirk, or with Fiz or Chesney, when Kirk is seen with them.

Ted Paige

Template:Coronation Street character Ted Paige, played by Michael Byrne , is a fictional character on the UK soap opera Coronation Street. He is the long lost father of Gail Platt and entered the soap in April 2008. He made his first appearance on 28 April 2008. Just a week after his arrival, Ted revealed he was gay. He'd recently lost his partner of twenty years.

Ted arrived in Coronation Street, as Audrey's old flame, got in touch with him. They agreed to meet, and talk about what had happened in the 50 years they had been separated. Audrey, before splitting up with Ted, discovered she was pregnant and didn't want to tell him.

This resulted in Gail being born. Ted became agitated as he realised he had missed out on 50 years of his daughters life and had never seen his grandchildren, Nick, Sarah and David or his great grandchildren, Bethany and Billy. Ted soon met Gail and they bonded almost instantly. Ted supported David when he was going to his job interview at a salon (going so far as to write a letter of recommendation using Audrey's name) while Gail was away as Ted was keeping an eye on David meanwhile.

Natasha

Hairdresser 'Natasha' , played by actress Rachel Leskovac, first appeared on 12 May 2008, replacing Maria Sutherland at Audrey's hair salon. She came to Weatherfield as her old hairdressers burnt down although she was glad as the owner was in her 60's which offended Audrey as she is a few years older. She now occasionally appears, usually seen in the salon hairdressing.

Clarissa Mason

Clarissa Mason is a fictional character in Coronation Street.

She is played by Alexandra Boyd, who first appeared in May 2008 as Harry Mason's ex wife, he refused to help her, as she had just told him that she had lost her drivers license due to speeding, so she left. She returned a few days later, where as Harry hired Lloyd Mullaney to drive her around for a while. She then returned from Lloyd's taxi and left yet again. She returned to the street on 2 July, to cause some more trouble for Harry. She later began to expect more from Lloyd, and even insisted on him buying her a drink in The Rovers Return on 11 July 2008. It has become clear that she has a crush on Lloyd. She is set for a lot more appearances, when Harry, followed by Liz McDonald's breakup with her husband, Vernon. Liz and Harry sonn begin to express feelings to each other, Clarissa, however, isn't happy. It is not yet known if Clarissa wants Harry back or whether she just dosen't want Harry to be with Liz.

Joe McIntyre

Joe McIntyre, played by Reece Dinsdale first appeared on 26 May 2008 as Tina McIntyre's father, looking for Tina. He next appeared on 13 June where he met David, Tina's boyfriend. He and David's mother, Gail have now planned a drink at The Rovers when she returns from Milan, he is set for romance with Gail, he will next appear when Gail comes back in July. It will transpire that both Gail and Eileen Grimshaw are after Joe.

Past characters

List of past recurring and minor Coronation Street characters