List of Coronation Street Actors - Regular Appearances

Regular Appearances

• Amanda Barrie, who played Alma Baldwin, one-time wife of Mike Baldwin, was an early star of the British series of Carry On films, and now appears in the prison drama Bad Girls.
• Vicky Binns played the deceased Molly Dobbs. She is the daughter of Diggory Compton, and wife of Tyrone Dobbs.
• Chris Bisson as Vikram Desai, later the star of East Is East and a recurring star in Shameless. He is currently in Emmerdale.
• Craig Charles, star of Red Dwarf as cab-driver Lloyd.
• Boyzone star Keith Duffy played Ciaran McCarthy, a barman in the Rovers Return Inn.
• Peter Duncan, who went on to present Blue Peter and become the UK's chief scout, played Christopher Cullen in the mid-1970s.
• Roy Hudd played Audrey Roberts' close friend - and professional undertaker - Archie Shuttleworth in 2002-2003, who assisted Audrey in trying to bring down the Street's serial killer, Richard Hillman.
• Ben Kingsley, who portrayed Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's biographical film Gandhi, appeared from 1966-1967 as Ron Jenkins.
• Arthur Lowe, who starred as Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army appeared for several years as Leonard Swindley, taking the character into the spin-off sitcom Pardon The Expression.
• Helene Palmer, as Ida Clough from 1978 to 1988, and again from 1995 to 1998.
• Linus Roache, son of Bill Roache (Ken Barlow) who played Peter Barlow in the early 1970s and went on to star in the film Priest.
• William Russell, regular companion in Doctor Who as Rita's second husband Ted Sullivan in 1992.
• Michael Sheard who played Mr. Bronson in Grange Hill appeared as Arthur Dabner in 1989.
• Elisabeth Sladen, who went on to genre fame as Sarah-Jane Smith in Doctor Who, played Anita Reynolds in 1970.
• Debra Stephenson, star of ITV prison drama Bad Girls as Frankie Baldwin.
• Bradley Walsh, comedian, once half of a comedy duo with Joe Pasquale, who plays Danny Baldwin, Mike's "nephew" who later found out he was his son.
• Kenneth Cope, best known for playing Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), appeared as Jed Stone, a.k.a. "Sonny Jim", Minnie Caldwell's gaolbird lodger throughout the early 1960s.