List of ''Coronation Street'' characters (1990)

Coronation Street is a British soap opera, initially produced by Granada Television. Created by writer Tony Warren, Coronation Street first broadcast on ITV on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in the show's thirty-first year, by order of first appearance. Sandra Arden, the daughter of Alec Gilroy (Roy Barraclough) and Sandra's husband and daughter, Tim (John Flanagan) and Vicky (Helen Warburton) all made their first appearances in January. December saw the birth of the only 2 babies born in 1990, Rosie, the daughter of Kevin (Michael Le Vell) and Sally Webster (Sally Dynevor) and Martin Platt (Sean Wilson) and Gail Tilsley's (Helen Worth) son, David.

Sandra Arden

Sandra Arden (also Gilroy) is the daughter of Alec and Joyce Gilroy.

Alec decides to contact his daughter to make up for the last twenty years and gets Sandra's address from his ex-wife Joyce. After discovering that Sandra lives in a big house in Cheshire with her husband Tim and their daughter, Vicky.

After initial misunderstandings between the Ardens and the Gilroys, Sandra tells Alec that he could keep in touch with them. In July 1991, Joyce dies and Sandra asks Alec to meet Vicky at boarding school and to let her stay at the Rovers Return so that she and Tim can attend Joyce's funeral in Whitby.

Before the Gilroys set off for the train station, a Police Sergeant arrives to tell Alec that Sandra and Tim have both died in a car crash.

Tim Arden

Tim Arden is husband of Sandra Arden and father of Vicky McDonald. Tim makes sparing appearances when his father-in-law Alec Gilroy visits the family. Tim makes his final appearance on 13 June 1990. 13 months later, shortly after Sandra was seen again on screen without Tim, a police sergeant arrives at the Rovers Return Inn to tell Alec that both Tim and Sandra have died in a car crash en route to Sandra's mother, Joyce's funeral.

Vicky McDonald

Victoria Frances "Vicky" McDonald (née Arden) was played by Helen Warburton in 1990 and Chloe Newsome from 1991 to 1998. She is Alec Gilroy's granddaughter and the first wife of Steve McDonald. After first appearing in January 1990, Vicky visits Coronation Street when her parents Tim and Sandra Arden drop her off so they can attend the funeral of Sandra's mother, Joyce. However, a days later, the police arrive and tell Alec that Tim and Sandra have died in a car crash. Her grandfather Alec and his wife Bet become her legal guardians, as she is still only 14 years old.

Vicky goes to a private boarding school and owns a horse called Saracen so holidays in a back street pub are not an attractive option. However, when she meets Steve McDonald, it is some compensation. Alec desperately tries to separate the couple but fails. She resists his sexual advances for a short time until finally she loses her virginity to him. This is not important to him and he also dates nurse Alison Rathbone. They then both dump him. After Alec leaves to go and work in Southampton, Vicky continues to return to the Rovers and treats Bet as her grandmother. On reaching her 18th birthday, Vicky inherits £240,000 from her parents. To Bet's distress, Vicky immediately abandons her studies and decides the money would be better than her schooling. She visits Alec for a while to explain her decision to him. When she returns, she is keen to confide in old flame Steve but he is seeing hairdresser Fiona Middleton, but Vicky gets his attention when she invests £1,500 in his T-shirt company. However, she loses her money when an order for Costello's nightclub falls through when the place goes bust.

Rather than put her off, this inspires Vicky to enroll on a Business Studies course at the local technical college and she becomes Steve's business partner, insisting that she has control of the finances – annoying Fiona. This ets worse when Vicky and Steve go to Dublin for a 'business' weekend. Fiona dumps him, leaving the way clear for Vicky. She seduces him easily and they announce their engagement at Steve's 21st birthday party in 1995 – shocking everybody and incensing Bet. Alec returns for a spell to convince Vicky to end the relationship but it is to no avail. Alec even offers Steve £5,000 not to marry Vicky. Eventually, the pair marry in St Lucia - Bet gives her blessing as she knows that Vicky is happy. After their marriage, Vicky and Steve have a long honeymoon in the Caribbean and America. When they return, they turn their attention to the business, which needs another injection of capital – again provided by Vicky. Their relationship struggles, thanks to Steve spending Vicky's money and the final straw comes when he is arrested on Christmas Day 1995 for buying stolen whisky. He is guilty but persuades Vicky to bribe Malcolm Fox to say that Steve did not know that the whisky was stolen. Steve is freed and they assume that they were safe. However, the police discover the bribery when Malcolm Fox's wife confesses. Vicky and Steve are arrested and they stand trial, blaming each other and both are found guilty. Steve is sentenced to two years in prison and Vicky is given a one-year suspended sentence. She decides to get on with her life without Steve and enrolls in a hotel management course in an exclusive college in Switzerland. She leaves in June 1996 and divorces Steve while he is in prison.

Vicky returns to the Street at Christmas 1998 with a bang. She accidentally hits Steve's car as she parks her car outside the Rovers while visiting Alec. Vicky has blossomed into a lovely young woman, a far cry from the spoilt, impressionable teen that came to the Rovers many years before. She has just bought a wine bar in Brighton and wants advice from her grandfather. Alec is having problems with the Duckworths, who are now licencees at the pub, and is getting very despondent so Vicky persuades him to go into partnership with her and Alec sells the Rovers to the recently widowed Natalie Barnes, they leave Coronation Street together with hopes of a great future.

In November 1999, Steve and his friend, Vikram Desai, are heading to Calais to buy cigarettes and alcohol. Vikram discovers they are going via Brighton to see Vicky. On arrival at "Vicky's" - the wine bar she owns - Steve discovers she is about to remarry. He plans to rekindle his relationship with her so he can get his hands on her money and business, betting Vikram £100 that he can stop the wedding. It transpires that Vicky's bar is actually in trouble as she asks Bet for a loan but she refuses. Steve successfully seduces Vicky and Vicky admits that she cannot marry her fiance, Robert. She also tells him she is broke and the wine bar is losing money. He promises to pick her up later and return to Weatherfield but Steve and Vikram leave without her. Vicky realises that she has been stood up so Bet takes her back to the bar and Vicky realises she does want to marry Robert after all. In 2002, Bet stated that Vicky was happily married.

Des Barnes

Jackie Ingram

Jaqueline Rachel "Jackie" Ingram (previously Baldwin) was Peter Ingram's widow who fell for Mike Baldwin's charms and became his second wife. The marriage lasted a week before Jackie discovered he had been only after her money and had used some of it to help out his girlfriend, Alma Sedgewick. She threatened Mike with her shotgun before leaving him. Mike was given a tidy sum of money as a pay-off for a quick divorce.

Angie Freeman

Angela 'Angie' Freeman moved into 7 Coronation Street to share with Jenny Bradley, into the room vacated by Flick and Joanne Khan. She was a free-spirited student studying Design at University and a woman who knew her own mind. In March 1991, Curly Watts moved in and they quickly became very close – but more as brother and sister than lovers, until one night when they had too much red wine and ended up in bed together. Both regretted it the next morning, but Curly always hoped that their relationship might develop into something more. After graduating, Angie was short of work, and worked unhappily for Mike Baldwin, and more happily for Hanif Ruparell. She found another soulmate in Des Barnes, but went on to have a rather confused and painful romance with Neil Mitchell.

When she left Weatherfield for Mexico in March 1993 to study Aztec design, she left behind a few broken hearts.

In December 1996, she called back on Weatherfield as a designer for Kbec - much to the annoyance of her former boss, Mike Baldwin, but Kbec troubles meant that by the following March they were both no longer in Kbec's employ. Angie returned to Weatherfield, and rented Des Barnes' house whilst he was on his canal barge, with the intention of setting up her own business.

Rosie Webster

Rosie Webster is a fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. She was born on screen during the episode broadcast on 25 December 1990. She was played by Emma Collinge from 1990 until 1999. Helen Flanagan took over the role on 23 January 2000. Flanagan took a three-month break in Summer 2011,^[1] and returned on 26 September 2011. The character departed the show on 10 February 2012, leaving to make a reality television show.^[2][3] Since Rosie was 10 days old, for most of her pre-teen years, the character was played by child actress Emma Collinge.^[4] She played Rosie in various minor storylines, most notably portraying the effect that parental separation has upon a child, leading to a spell as a school bully. In January 2000, the press announced that Collinge would be departing the serial "to devote more time to gymnastics". "Budding actress" Helen Flanagan was recast in the role. Nine-year-old Flanagan, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, joined the soap on 23 January 2000.^[4] At the time, Flanagan told the media that she was "thrilled" with her casting.^[5] Flanagan discovered she had been chosen just a few days before Christmas Eve 1999, but she was not permitted to reveal this to anyone for two weeks. In 2000, her mother Julia Flanagan commented, "She was really thrilled to get the part and she was bursting to tell people but she just couldn't. The Coronation Street people had asked us not to tell anyone, so we had to keep quiet. The hardest bit for Helen was not telling her grandad because he's such a fan of the programme. When he did find out, he was absolutely thrilled. She is loving every minute. She's met most of the cast and is still very excited about it all."^[6] Rosie's storylines have included her rivalry with younger sister Sophie, being kidnapped by John Stape (Graeme Hawley) and her modeling ambitions.

David Platt

David Daniel Platt (previously Tilsley) is a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street. He was born onscreen during an episode broadcast on 26 December 1990. He was played by Thomas Ormson from 26 December 1990 until 15 March 1999 when Ormson left the serial. Jack P. Shepherd took over the role and made his first on screen appearance on 26 April 2000 and has remained in the role since.Jack P. Shepherd as David Platt following the character's recast in 2000. A character that viewers saw born in the soap, David's birth was part of the Coronation Street Christmas storyline in 1990, since David was days old and for most of his childhood, the character was played by Thomas Ormson. He was the only child of couple Martin and Gail Platt (Sean Wilson and Helen Worth), although Gail had two children from her first marriage. In 2000, Jack P. Shepherd took over the role, he made his first appearance on 26 April 2000. David's storylines have included his sibling rivalry with half sister Sarah, his teenage rebellion, his relationship with Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan), his marriage to Kylie Turner (Paula Lane), fatherhood, and his rivalry with Kylie's ex-partner and Max's dad Callum Logan (Sean Ward). David was a central character in the show's third live episode which was aired to commemorate 60 years of ITV.

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