Katy Harris | |||||||||||||||||||
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Coronation Street character | |||||||||||||||||||
Portrayed by | Lucy-Jo Hudson | ||||||||||||||||||
Duration | 2002–2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
First appearance | 13 November 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | 20 April 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||
Introduced by | Kieran Roberts | ||||||||||||||||||
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Katherine Jane "Katy" Harris (previously Nelson) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, portrayed by Lucy-Jo Hudson. She made her first on-screen appearance on 13 November 2002, before departing in 2005. The teenage daughter of the Harris family, Katy's storylines centred on her family's victimisation by a gang, her diabetic diagnosis and her relationship with Martin Platt (Sean Wilson).
Her departing storyline entitled "Killer Katy",[1] in which she had an abortion, murdered her father, and then killed herself has been described as one of the soap's most sensational and shocking storylines.[2][3]