Martin Platt

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Martin Platt
Coronation Street character
Played by	Sean Wilson
Duration	1985-2005
Date of Birth	2 June 1968
Marital Status	Divorced
Occupation	Nurse
Family	Barbara, Barry, David

Martin Platt was a character from ITV's Coronation Street, portrayed by Sean Wilson.

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Martin Platt is a nurse, working at Weatherfield General Hospital. He first appeared in 1985 as a school-leaver working in Jim's Cafe. He had 2 GCSEs and was studying at Salford Technical college. In 1989, Brian Tilsley was murdered and Martin began comforting his widow Gail. To everyone's surprise, the two fell for each other and in 1990, the two had a child. Gail did not think it was fair for Martin to have a child at his age, and was about to have an abortion when Martin stopped her. They got married in 1991, and the child was named David. Martin looked after Gail's two older children, Sarah-Louise and Nick from her marriage to Brian.

In the mid-1990s, Martin became friendly with fellow nurse, Carmel Finnan, who was deranged. Carmel made Gail believe she was having an affair with Martin and was pregnant by him, but this was not true. The problem was solved by Carmel's father from Ireland coming to take her home. Martin later slept with nurse Cathy Power after a New Year's party. Martin confessed, and Gail did not speak to him for months. They were reconciled after Martin passed his nursing exam. In 1999, Martin had another affair with Rebecca Hopkins, confessing to Gail only after Rebecca had left him. After an unsuccessful attempt to patch up the marriage, Martin went to live in a nearby flat. Gail divorced him and later married Richard Hillman. Hillman murdered Maxine Peacock, and ultimately attempted to kill himself and his new family by driving them into a canal. Martin and Tommy Harris jumped into the canal and swam down to the sunken car and rescued Gail and the kids, but Richard died.

In 2003, Martin fell in love with sixteen-year-old Katy Harris. Katy's father, Tommy, who had previously been Martin's friend, disapproved, and attacked Martin physically, whilst Katy's brother, Craig, attempted to kill Martin by interfering with the brakes on his car. Katy's parents were even more unhappy when she left school and got pregnant. Sally Webster (one of Martin's ex-girlfriends) was having an affair with work colleague Ian, and her friendship with Martin, who was working particularly late hours, made Tommy and Angela Harris believe they were having an affair. They told Katy, who moved out of Martin's flat and had an abortion. When Gail told them the truth, Katy was devastated. She confronted Tommy in a rage, and attacked him with a wrench, killing him. Because of the bad blood between Martin and Tommy, Martin was at first arrested for the murder. Even though Angela only witnessed the murder of Tommy, she confessed to doing it. Martin was released, and Angela arrested. Katy was hysterical, and as a diabetic, decided to commit suicide by forgoing her insulin injections and eating sugar. Martin, Sarah and Sarah's then boyfriend Scooter managed to get her to hospital, but she later died.

Before he left Coronation Street to move to Liverpool with girlfriend Robyn, Martin remained close to Gail, even after the divorce, and often came round to have tea with Gail, Sarah, David and Sarah's daughter Bethany. David was devastated when he heard Martin was leaving and did not talk to Martin for a while, however the two of them reconciled just before Martin left.

In January 2006, David reported that his father was expecting a baby with his new partner.