Ellie Leach is well known for playing Coronation Street's Faye Windass for the past 10 years.
During her decade in the nation's longest-running soap the actress tackled many harrowing storylines including her chracter falling pregnant when she was 12.
In 2020 she was sexually assaulted by evil Ray Crosby and last year she went to prison for attacking Adam Barlow in a case of mistaken idenity thinking that he was her sleazy boss.
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And this week Faye was back at the centre of the Corrie drama after she knocked down an elderly man called Ted while on a driving lesson with Emma Brooker, who was still tipsy from New Year's Eve.
The girls took the pensioner home after he insisted that he was fine, but when they later went to check on him they found him dead in his armchair.
Fearing that she could be heading back to prison, the girls cleaned up his flat to remove traces of their visit and left him for his grandson to find.
The latest traumatic event for Faye happened just as she was looking forward to moving in with her boyfriend Craig Tinker.
Away from the famous cobbles Ellie, 20, from Bury, is loved-up with her boyfriend Reagan Pettman.
Reagan is also an actor and he's a model, influencer and a dancer.
The pair regularly share adorable snaps of themselves out and about.
As they celebrated the new year she wrote with a photo of the pair beaming for the camera: "Bringing in the new year with my favourite person in the world."
Many fans may not realise that Ellie has a famous relative who is also a Coronation Street favourite.
Her older cousin Brooke Vincent who is known to Corrie fans as Sophie Webster.
Mother-of-two Brooke, who left the soap over two years ago to go on maternity leave, was very supportive when Ellie joined Coronation Street.
On Lorraine earlier this year Ellie revealed how Brooke had asked her to be her eldest son Mexx's godmother.
Ellie said: "I am Mexx's godmother, yeah Brooke asked me, she bought me a little bracelet, and on the inside it says 'Auntie Elle, will you be my godmother?'
"I couldn't stop crying, I couldn't believe it."
Ellie's character arrived as the adopted daughter of Anna Windass.
Speaking to the ITV chat show host about her 10 years on the show she said: "It feels like it's been so long but it also feels like it's flown by.
"I'm so lucky to have the storylines that I've had but also growing up and being so young it has been a challenge because most things that you do, storyline wise, you haven't actually experienced yourself."
