It would be hard to imagine Weatherfield without Fiz Stape - or Fiz Brown as she was when she arrived on the cobbles 21 years ago.
She made her first appearance in the soap as a feisty teen fostered by Roy and Hayley Cropper after being neglected by her mother, Cilla Brown.
However, she spent most of the first decade on the famous street living with Maria Sutherland, now Maria Windass, at 2a Coronation Street, during which time she had relationships with Tyrone Dobbs and Maria's brother Kirk.
But it may come as more of a surprise that the Underworld machinist and antiques dealer, played by Bury actress Jennie McAlpine, was initially only meant to appear for five episodes but was quickly made a permanent character. READ MORE: Real life of Coronation Street's Toyah Battersby actress Georgia Taylor - actual name, rarely seen famous partner and movie past And over the years Fiz has been involved in plenty of gripping storylines including her serial killer late husband John Stape carrying out three murders and helping him to bury the bodies and she gave birth to their daughter Hope during Corrie's live 50th anniversary episode in 2010 with Jennie becoming the first actress to act out a birth live on a soap opera.
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