| Character |
Played By |
First Appeared |
| Kenneth
("Ken") Barlow |
William
Roache |
9 December 1960 - |
| Emily
Nugent/Bishop/Swain ("Emily Bishop") |
Eileen
Derbyshire |
27 January 1961 - |
| Rita Littlewood/Fairclough/Sullivan
|
Barbara
Knox |
27 November
1964, 1972 - |
| Elizabeth
("Betty") Turpin/Williams née Preston |
Betty
Driver |
2 June 1969 - |
| Deirdre
Anne Langton/Barlow/Rachid (née Hunt) |
Anne
Kirkbride |
20
November 1972 - |
| Gail
Potter/Tilsley Platt/Hillman AKA Gail Platt |
Helen
Worth |
12
July 1974 - |
| Veronica
("Vera") Duckworth (née Burton) |
Elizabeth
("Liz") Dawn |
19 August
1974 - |
Blanche
Hunt (II)
|
Maggie
Jones |
1974 - 1976, 1977; 1978; 1981; 1996; 3 December
1997; 1998-1999; Main character since 8 August 1999 - (Previously
played by Patricia Cutts 1974) |
| Audrey
Potter/Roberts |
Sue
Nicholls |
16 April 1979 - |
| John Harold
("Jack") Duckworth |
William
("Bill") Tarmey |
26 - 28 November 1979; 18 May 1981, 1983 - |
| Kevin
Webster |
Michael
Le Vell |
19 October 1983 - |
| Bill Webster |
Peter
Armitage |
8 February 1984 - January 1985; July 1995
- October 1997, 15 October 2006 - |
| Sally
Seddon/Webster |
Sally
Whittaker |
22
January 1986 - |
| Sarah-Louise
("Sarah") Tilsley/Platt (III) |
Tina
O'Brien |
31 October 1999 - (Previously played by
Leah King 28 January 1987 - May 1987, Lyndsey King 28 January
1987 - 8 October 1999) |
| Elizabeth
Jayne ("Liz")
McDonald (née Greenwood) |
Beverley
Callard |
27 October
1989 - 13 November 1998; 6 October 2000 - 12 January 2001,
November 2003, February-March 2004, came back in June 2004
-
played June Dewhurst (1984) |
| Steve
McDonald |
Simon
Gregson |
6 December 1989 - |
Rosie
Webster (II)
|
Helen
Flanagan |
23 January 2000 - (Previously played by
Emma Collinge 25 December 1990 - 27 December 1999) |
| David
Platt (II) |
Jack
P. Shepherd |
2000
-
(played previously by Thomas Ormson (December 1990
- 15 March 2000) |
| Norris
Cole |
Malcolm
Hebden |
1994 - 1997, Main Character from 1 December
1999 - |
| Royston
("Roy") Cropper |
David
Neilson |
19 July 1995 - |
| Ashley Sibelius Peacock |
Steven
Arnold |
2 February
1996 - |
| Janice
Battersby (née
Lee) |
Vicky
Entwistle |
1997-
|
| Leanne
Aneka Battersby/Tilsley AKA Leanne Battersby |
Jane
Danson |
4 July
1997 - 23 August 2000, 7 June 2004 - |
| Hayley Anne Patterson/Cropper AKA
Harold Patterson |
Julie
Hesmondhalgh |
26 January 1998 - |
| Tyrone Sylvester Dobbs |
Alan
Halsall |
30 November 1998 - |
| Devendra
("Dev") Alahan |
Jimmi
Harkishin |
10 November 1999 - |
| Eileen
Grimshaw |
Sue
Cleaver |
3 May
2000 - |
| Maria
Sutherland |
Samia
Ghadie |
19
May 2000 - |
| Bethany
Britney Platt |
Amy
Walton & Emily
Walton |
4 June 2000 - (played by Mia Cookson 4
- 8 September 2000) |
| Kirk
Sutherland |
Andrew
Whyment |
22
October 2000 - |
| Jason
Grimshaw |
Ryan
Thomas |
25 December 2000 - |
| Fiona
("Fiz") Brown |
Jennie
McAlpine |
April 2001, then back as a regular from 20
August 2001 - |
| Joshua Peacock |
Benjamin Beresford |
17 April 2002 - (Previously played by
Brandon Jackson) |
| Claire
Casey/Peacock |
Julia
Haworth |
2003- |
| Sean Tully |
Antony
Cotton |
Guest slots 2003-2004, regular from September
2004 - |
| Priscilla
("Cilla") Brown/Battersby-Brown |
Wendi
Peters |
20th Oct 2003 -
(as Lulu to begin with but as Cilla from 1st November 2003) |
| Chesney
Brown/Battersby-Brown |
Sam
Aston |
14th Nov 2003 - |
| Sophie
Webster (III) |
Brooke
Vincent |
circa April/May 2004 - (previously played
by Ashleigh Middleton November 1994 - March 1997, Emma
Woodward 29 June 1997 - circa April 2004) |
| Jamie
Baldwin |
Rupert
Hill |
July 2004 - |
| Kelly
Crabtree |
Tupele
Dorgu |
6th September 2004 - |
| Violet
Wilson |
Jenny
Platt |
8th October 2004 - |
| Adam Barlow |
Sam
Robertson |
31 December 2004 - January 2006
appeared periodically since 14 January 2001 upto 2003
played by Iain
De Caestecker |
| Joanne Jackson |
Zaraah
Abrahams |
28th February 2005 - |
| Yana Lumb |
Jayne
Tunnicliffe |
2005 - |
| Lloyd
Mullaney (previously known as Lloyd Bowen) |
Craig
Charles |
20th June 2005 - |
| Molly Compton |
Vicky Binns |
September 2005 - |
| Amber Kalirai |
Nikki Patel |
2005 - |
| Vernon Tomlin |
Ian Reddington |
2005- |
| Becky Grainger |
Katherine Kelly |
5 February - 14 May 2006, 6 November 2006
- |
| Amy Katherine
Barlow AKA Patience Cropper (V) |
Amber
Chadwick - since
April 2006 onscreen.
(Originally played by three babies that included
Rebecca Pike, who later went on to play the role alone
up to June 2005',
July-October 2005 Louisa Morris;
October 2005-March 2006
Madison Hampson) |
9th February 2004 - |
| Michelle Connor |
Kym
Ryder |
3 - 9 April 2006, 13 August 2006
- |
| Ryan Connor |
Ben Thompson |
30 August 2006 - |
| Liam Connor |
Rob James-Collier |
30 August 2006 - |
| Roger Stiles |
Andrew Dunn |
1 - 7 January 2007, 24 June 2007 - |
| Carla Connor |
Alison King |
1 December 2006 - |
| Jodie Morton |
Samantha Seager |
29 January 2007 - |
| Wilf Morton |
Rodney Litchfield |
29 January 2007 - |
| Doreen Fenwick |
Barbara Young |
5 February 2007 - |
| Wiki Dankowska |
Wanda Opalinska |
2 March 2007 - |
| Casey Carswell |
Zoe Henry |
16 March 2007 - |
| Jerry Morton |
Michael Starke |
18 March 2007 - |
| Darryl Morton |
Jonathan Dixon |
18 March 2007 - |
| Melanie ("Mel") Morton |
Emma Edmondson |
18 March 2007 - |
| Kayleigh Morton |
Jessica Barden |
18 March 2007 - |
| Finlay Bryant |
Ramone
Quinn/
Ramone Cameron Quinn |
6 April 2007 - |
| John Stape |
Graeme Hawley |
6 May 2007 - |
| Paul Clayton |
Tom Hudson |
13 July 2007 -
Previously played by
Lee Booth 29 November - 25 December 2000, 7 November 2001 |