Katy Harris
| 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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Katy Harris (also Nelson) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played 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", in which she had an abortion, killed her father during a heated argument, and then killed herself has been described as one of the soap's most sensational and shocking storylines.