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Coronation Street/Characters


The character sheet for Coronation Street. Be warned though, as a Long Runner, the cast is voluminous. Only current characters have full character sheets since doing one for the hundreds that have existed in the shows history would probably be a life long project. Characters not currently appearing on the show have their own section with brief descriptions at the bottom of the page.

Number The Rover's Return

Steve McDonald

Becky McDonald (neé Granger)

  • Arch Enemy: Tracy Barlow.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Her general reaction to any sort of bad news is to get drunk and smash up whatever's nearest.
  • Jerkass: When she first turned up, now a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
  • Mama Bear: Though neither of the children she has with Steve are actually hers (Max being her sister's son, and Amy being Steve's daughter with Tracy Barlow).
  • Ms. Fanservice: Particularly in her reaction to being angry at Steve, which is to dress in revealing clothing, then go out, get drunk and get attention from men at other bars.

Betty Williams

  • Deadpan Snarker: Her dry commentary has been a Rovers staple for over forty years now.
  • Supreme Chef: The reason she has remained a steadfast employee for as long as she has, her Hotpot is one of the reasons the place is so popular.

Number One Coronation Street

Ken Barlow

  • Arch Enemy: Mike Baldwin, for literally decades, until his death a few years ago.
  • Cultural Rebel: Ken was the first in his family to attend University and has always aspired to somewhat more intellectual than his neighbors and family.
  • Long Runner: Worth noting, as he is the only remaining original cast member, from the first episode (from 1960!), and has never left the show at any point.
  • Politically-Motivated Teacher: An ardent socialist, he enjoyed sharing his views with a captive audience or just anyone really.
  • Why Couldn't You Be Different?: Has had moments of this with all of his adult children. While somewhat justified (like when Tracy killed her boyfriend), his treating Peter (who is basically a well meaning chronic screw-up) and Lawrence (who had just met a few weeks ago!!) like this is an example of his frustration with his working class existence.
  • Your Cheating Heart: Frequently, his last affair was only a year ago and he has never been faithful to any of his wives. Although his most frequent wife Deirdre is not that much better having had several affairs herself.

Deirdre Barlow

Tracy Barlow

Amy Barlow

  • Who's Your Daddy?: Initially thought to be the daughter of Roy Cropper. Tracy kept her true paternity to herself until she felt it was appropriate, the middle of Steve Macdonald's wedding to Karen.

Number Two Coronation Street (Audrey's Salon)

Audrey Roberts

Maria Connor

Kirk Sutherland

  • Dumb Is Good: He is a very kind soul whatever else you can say about him.
  • Friend to All Living Things: Has said more than once he understands dogs better than people.
  • Too Dumb to Live: He's lucky the residents of the street are kind (particularly his ex Fizz and sister Maria) or he would have starved years ago.

Liam Connor

Number Three Coronation Street

Emily Bishop

  • Granny Classic: Acts as this to most of the street despite never having children herself.

Norris Cole

Mary Taylor (note, actually lives in a motorhome on the street)

Number Four Coronation Street

Kevin Webster

Sally Webster

  • Rich Bitch: Often seen as this by the other factory girls. To be fair though, she is very snobbish and big-headed.
  • Ted Baxter

Rosie Webster

Sophie Webster

Number 5 Coronation Street

Fiona "Fiz" Stape (Nee Brown)

John Stape

Chesney Battersby-Brown

Number 6 Coronation Street

Anna Windass

Number 7 Coronation Street

Devander "Dev" Alahan

Sunita Alahan

Aadi and Asha Alahan

Number 8 Coronation Street

Gail Potter/Tilsley/Platt/Hillman/Macintyre

  • Arch Enemy: Eileen Grimshaw.
  • Extreme Doormat: Her last husband was drug addict who stole from her repeatedly and drowned while trying to fake his own death, but she loved him anyway.
  • My Beloved Smother: Her boys never do anything wrong despite being two of the shows main antagonists for the past few years.
  • Parental Obliviousness

Nick Tilsley

  • Momma's Boy: Recently turned 30, still lives at home and spends most of his time hanging out with his mom.
  • Smug Snake

David Platt

  • Attention Whore: His main reason for doing anything.
  • Jerkass: Spent many years as this, now wavers between it and Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
  • Momma's Boy: Despite once shoving her down the stairs, he's the first person to run to her when there's trouble.
  • Smug Snake
  • The Sociopath: Was played this way for several years, but has disappeared over time as he's apparently "mellowed out".
  • The Unfavorite: Compared to high achiever Nick and teenage mother Sarah, he never got much attention and he never fails to remind his mother of that.
  • Troll: Possibly the only way to really describe his character, he simply likes getting a rise out of people, or stirring up trouble for other people.

Kylie Platt

Number 9 Coronation Street

Tyrone Dobbs

Tommy Duckworth

Underworld

Carla Connor

Julie Carp

Number 10 Coronation Street/The Kabin

Rita Sullivan

Number 11 Coronation Street

Eileen Grimshaw

  • Arch Enemy: Gail Platt, for a number of years now, though it's cooled more recently as they has less to do with each other.
  • Butt Monkey: Even by soap standards, Eileen has a hard life.
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Mama Bear: God help you if you hurt one of her boys.
  • Stoic Woobie: Refused to cry in public even at her fathers funeral occasionally slides into Jerkass when she expresses affection through yelling.

Jason Grimshaw

  • Brainless Beauty
  • Dumb Muscle: Most of the time, although Jason often shows flashes of insight that suggest he's more lazy than truly unintelligent.
  • The Unfavorite: To his smarter more sensitive brother Todd.

Sean Tully

Number 12 Coronation Street

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Number 13 Coronation Street

Lloyd Mullaney

  • Expy: Many consider him an Expy of Craig Charles' other best known character, Dave Lister.
  • Token Minority: One of the streets first black regulars TPTB seemed to struggle with what to do with him other than have him date the shows only other black character. Although more recently, he has developed into storylines of his own.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Steve who he co-own the local cab firm with.

Cheryl Gray

Number 14 Coronation Street

Izzie Armstrong

Gary Windass

Number 15 Coronation Street/ The Corner Shop

Tina Macintyre

Graeme Proctor

Xin Proctor

Barlow's Bookies

Peter Barlow

  • The Alcoholic: Noteworthy on a show where most consume twice the British average amounts for alcohol and practically live in the pub. Peter is the only actual dry drunk, though by some measures most of the cast qualifies as functional alcoholics.
  • Children Raise You
  • I Am Not My Father: Comparisons to dad Ken are something of a Berserk Button.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold
  • Parental Abandonment: The main reason his relationship is strained is because his father shipped him and his twin sister of to their Scottish grandparents at the age of six following the death of their mother. To be fair though, it was how it was done in those days.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Circa 2003, he was "the most hated man in Britain" but one recovery from alcoholism and amazingly cute child later, his injury was a central part of the fiftieth anniversary special.

Leanne Barlow (nee Battersby)

Simon Barlow

Roy's Rolls

Roy Cropper

Hayley Cropper

Sylvia Cropper

The Dead and the Departed

Mike Baldwin(played by Johnny Briggs)

  • Owned the factory over the road (among other things), for most of its existence starting as Balwin's casuals and then after it became Underworld. Mike was a tenacious self made man who got where he had by hard work and a lot of charm, not that he ever let anyone forget it. Mike always liked Deirdre and that turned into an affair in 1983 unfortunately Deirdre decided to stay married to Ken. Ken would never forgive Mike for the affair although Mike and Deirdre would remain friends until his death. A few years later, Mike would marry Ken's daughter Susan (at least partly to piss of Ken on both their parts) but his sexism (she wanted to work he wanted a housewife) would cost him the relationship Susan left him after telling him she aborted his baby. A few years later, he would meet Alma Sedgewick arguably the love of his life who he then dumped for a young blond tart. This would be a pattern for them and they would break up and get back together several times for much the same reason. In 2001, Peter Barlow revealed that Susan had lied and had actually had a son with Mike named Adam. Mike rivalry with Ken flared up again when Susan died and the two men fought for custody of Adam. As he was getting older, Mike decided to bring in a partner his nephew Danny Baldwin. It was revealed that Danny was actually Mike's son, however they never got much time together as Mike developed Alzhiemer's disease. Mike died outside the factory in the arms of Ken Barlow of a heart attack on the seventh of April 2006.

Adam Barlow(played by Iain de Caestecker, Sam Robertson)

  • Son of Susan and Mike Baldwin he lived with Grandad Ken for a while after leaving school. Last heard to be in Spain.

Daniel Barlow (played by Lewis Harney)

  • Youngest son of Ken Barlow currently lives with his mother. Mostly mentioned when Peter wants to make Ken feel guilty.

Susan Barlow (played by Katie Heanneau, Wendy Jane Walker, Suzy Patterson, Joanna Foster)

  • Ken oldest daughter and Peter's twin sister she famously married Mike Baldwin and had his son. Died in a car crash trying to run away from a custody fight with Mike. Mostly mentioned when Ken wants to manipulate Peter.

Valerie Barlow (played by Anne Reid)

  • Ken's long suffering first wife and mother of Susan and Peter. She kept house and home together while Ken was busy being involved in politics and getting involved with other women. Was the street first hairdresser and ran her own shop out of number 9. Died when faulty wiring on her hair dryer electrocuted her and started a fire in her home.
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