A number of actors left in 1987, but most had only small parts. The significant one, and probably who you are referring to, was Jean Alexander. She played Hilda Ogden. She did appear again in a one-off appearance in 1990.
Eddie Yeats was played by Geoffrey Hughes in Coronation Street. He was a bin man. Yeats first appeared in 1974, and he left in 1987.
Hilda Ogden
She left in 1987. She was supposed to have left to go to work as a housekeeper for a doctor. She subsequently made a one-off appearance in an episode in 1990.
Sophie Webster's girlfriend on Coronation Street is played by Sacha Parkinson. However, she has now left the show so she won't be appearing as Sian Powers in Coronation Street.
In the UK soap opera Coronation Street, the fictional character 'Tony Gordon' is played by actor Gray O'Brien. He started with Coronation Street in September 2007 and left in June 2010 as Tony died. He was born in Scotland in 1968, the youngest of seven children. He trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Gray and his wife, Lynn have one son, Conor, born in 2008
A friend of Blanche's left it to her when she died.
no she doesn't otherwise she would have left
Vera Duckworth
Bruce Jones is a British actor best known for playing the role of Les Battersby in the British television soap opera "Coronation Street." He played the role up until 2007 when he left it.
Lucy Evans played the part of Violet Wilson's sister, Lauren. She joined Coronation Street in November 2007, but she left the programme in April 2008.
He left gail to go and work in a hospital the other end of the county
She is leaving for a while but has stated that she will come back. See related links for more information.