Coronation Street is a British television soap opera first broadcast on ITV on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters who currently appear in the programme, listed in order of first appearance.
Character | Current actor | Character duration |
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Hope Dobbs | Isabella Flanagan [lower-alpha 18] | 2010–present |
Joseph Brown | William Flanagan [lower-alpha 19] | 2011–2015, 2017–present |
Ruby Dobbs | Billie Naylor [lower-alpha 20] | 2012–present |
Jake Windass | Bobby Bradshaw [lower-alpha 21] | 2013–2019, 2021–present |
Lily Platt | Brooke Malonie [lower-alpha 22] | 2013–present |
Dr. Susan Gaddas | Christine Mackie | 2014–present |
Harry Platt | Freddie and Isaac Rhodes [lower-alpha 23] | 2016–present |
Bertie Osbourne | Rufus Morgan-Smith [lower-alpha 24] | 2019–present |
Suki Waters | Laura Littlewood | 2019–present |
Aled Winter-Brown | Joseph Woods | 2019–present |
Bryn Winter-Brown | Charlotte and James Holt, Arthur, Lily and Lucy Taylor | 2019–2020, 2022–present |
Carys Winter-Brown | 2019–2020, 2022–present | |
Llio Winter-Brown | 2019–2020, 2022–present | |
Sam Blakeman | Jude Riordan | 2020–present |
Glory Bailey | Eleanor Beckles [1] | 2021–present |
Orla Crawshaw | Carla Mendonça | 2021–present |
Alfie Franklin | Carter and Oakley Razak Townsend | 2022–present |
Emily Wilkinson | Ellena Vincent | 2024–present |
Hannah | Lois Pearson | 2024–present |
Character | Actor | Ref. |
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Paul Foreman | Peter Ash | [2] |
Beth Tinker | Lisa George | [3] |
Gail Platt | Helen Worth | [4] |
Character | Actor | Ref. |
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Lisa Swain's daughter | TBA | [5] |
Anthea Deering | Carol Royle | [6] |
Gus Deering | TBA | [6] |
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