Craig Harris (Coronation Street)

Craig Harris (Coronation Street)

Infobox soap character
color =#F0E68C
series = Coronation Street


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name = Craig Harris
portrayer = Richard Fleeshman
first = 13 November 2002
last = 16 October 2006
born = 18 September 1990
death =
occupation = Student
home = Berlin
parents= Tommy Harris
Angela Harris
romances= Rosie Webster
siblings= Katy Harris
grandparents= Jean Harris
Keith Appleyard

Craig Harris (previously Nelson), played by Richard Fleeshman, is a fictional character on the British soap opera "Coronation Street".

In real life, Richard Fleeshman's parents David Fleeshman and Sue Jenkins had also starred in Coronation Street; Sue played Gloria Todd and David played Mr.Austin.

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Craig is the son of Angela and Tommy Harris. He entered the series in 2002 as Craig Nelson, under the witness protection programme. His mum Angela had witnessed a murder in their home city of Sheffield and the family moved away to Weatherfield. He later used his real surname Harris once the family's cover was blown and they decided to stay in Weatherfield.

When his sister Katy started dating Martin Platt, her father's friend who was 20 years older than her, it caused Tommy and Angela to split up. Upset at this, Craig altered the brakes on Martin's car, hoping to split Martin and Katy up and bring back peace to his family. Unfortunately, Katy got in the car with Martin. Craig told his father and they raced to the rescue. Martin decided not to press charges once he found out the truth.

Tommy and Angela got back together when they realised how much their problems were affecting Craig. Craig started dating Rosie Webster, and the two became goths. They decided to sleep together, but at the last minute thought it would be best not to. However, Tommy found a condom Craig had been planning to use and thinking his son had slept with Rosie, punched him in the face.

Despite this, Craig was devastated when his father was killed. He found out Katy had committed manslaughter after discovering Tommy had lied to her over Martin having an affair, which caused her to abort her and Martin's child. Katy confronted Tommy and he made her so mad she grabbed a wrench and hit him with it. Angela took the blame for the kill, despite seeing what Katy had done and is now in prison. Katy, a diabetic, committed suicide by eating lots of sugar.

Craig then lived with grandfather Keith Appleyard, who, having decided that Craig had suffered enough problems, chose to move to Weatherfield rather than taking Craig back to Sheffield. He broke up with Rosie for a while after she made an insensitive remark about his family, but they put their differences behind them and got back together again. They recently had sex and slept together and Keith and his girlfriend Audrey Roberts caught Rosie trying to sneak out of the house the morning afterwards. Rosie's parents found out on New Year's Eve when Sally Webster went round to wish the pair happy New Year-Craig answered the door in a dressing gown, and, seeing Rosie's dress lying on the sofa, went upstairs to find a naked Rosie in Craig's bed.

The pair were banned from seeing each other, despite protesting heavily that they are deeply in love. Recently, Sally and Kevin have warmed towards Craig after seeing how devoted he is to Rosie, and Kevin offered Craig an apprenticeship at his garage (incidentally, this is where Craig's father worked and was murdered).

Craig was friends with David Platt and had a part time job working in the corner shop.

Craig was devastated recently when Keith told him that Charlie Stubbs was evicting them from their house and they were going to move away somewhere new for a fresh start. Craig does not want to leave Rosie.

ITV announced in early June that Fleeshman would be saying goodbye to "Coronation Street" in the autumn of 2006. It was his decision to quit the role of Craig Harris and is pursuing a pop career.

Craig and girlfriend Rosie hatched a plan to run away to berlin together, to start a new life. When they were just about to get onto the train, Rosie froze. She told Craig that she could not leave her family, so after a long, tearful goodbye, Craig tore himself away from his sweetheart and got onto the train, leaving Paris, Weatherfield and his longterm girlfriend behind him.

It has been said that Fleeshman would like to return to the role of Craig Harris in the future.


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