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, murdered her father, and then killed herself has been described as one of the soap's most sensational and shocking storylines.