| Anna Windass | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Coronation Street character | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Portrayed by | Debbie Rush | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2008–2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 6947 14 November 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | Episode 9471 1 June 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Kim Crowther (2008) Kate Oates (2018) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spin-off appearances | Tram Crash News Flash (2010) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Anna Windass is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, portrayed by Debbie Rush. The character was introduced in the episode first broadcast on 14 November 2008. Rush announced her decision to leave the series in July 2017 and Anna departed in the episode first broadcast on 22 January 2018. She appeared in two further episodes first broadcast on 31 May to 1 June 2018.
Anna's storylines have included: a rocky relationship to her long-term partner, Eddie Windass (Steve Huison); feuds with the Platt family, Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine) and Sally Webster (Sally Dynevor); her wayward son Gary's (Mikey North) decision to enroll into the army; her turbulent relationship with Owen Armstrong (Ian Puleston-Davies); adopting Faye Butler (Ellie Leach), who later alleges that Anna is abusing her; being blackmailed by Owen's client-turned-business partner Pat Phelan (Connor McIntyre) into having sex with him; facing bankruptcy following the end of her relationship with Owen; coping with Faye's underage pregnancy; a relationship with Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell); getting severely burnt in a car explosion unwittingly caused by Gary's old rival David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd); and being framed by Phelan for pushing his apprentice and Faye's boyfriend Seb Franklin (Harry Visinoni) off a ladder, which resulted in her wrongful five-years imprisonment, leading to her first departure.
The character was released off-screen after Phelan's crimes were finally exposed, and Anna returned for her two final episodes; the first on 31 May 2018 where she rescues Gary and his girlfriend Sarah Platt (Tina O'Brien) from Phelan's captivity, and the second on 1 June 2018 where she ultimately kills Phelan by mortally stabbing him with a knife after he shot his own daughter Nicola Rubinstein (Nicola Thorp) and then local resident Michelle Connor (Kym Marsh) with a gun. Anna then decides to leave Weatherfield - thus concluding the character's story arc.