# Gemma Winter

Gemma Winter-Brown (also Winter) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Dolly-Rose Campbell, made her first on-screen appearance on 1 October 2014. She originally appeared from October 2014 to September 2015 as a recurring character before returning on a permanent basis from 11 March 2016.

## Development
### Casting and introduction

Gemma first appeared in episode 8481 in October 2014. Campbell’s casting was unannounced as she was only meant to be a recurring character at the time to tie in with Kylie Platt’s temporary exit from the show. She was brought back again in September 2015 as the antagonistic associated of Kylie’s ex-boyfriend and farther of Max Turner (Harry McDermott).
In 2016 the character was brought back a second time to help cover up Kylie’s murder of Callum. But Gemma teamed up with his mum Marion Logan (Susan Cookson) in order to uncover the truth about his demise.

### Relationship with Chesney Brown

Gemma and Chesney sarted to develop a relationship after they had quadruple children together in 2019. In 2023 viewers couldn’t believe their eyes as Gemma “made a huge entrance” into the church wearing the “proper loud dress” during the wedding. She stepped out on her big day wearing a huge orange frock.

## Storylines

Gemma is an old friend of Kylie Platt (Paula Lane). They are reunited when Kylie returns to the Eccleston estate where they grew up. Gemma is also close friends with drug dealer Callum Logan (Sean Ward) and terrorises the Platt family with him. After leaving her family, Kylie briefly stays with Gemma, before she returns home. Callum and Gemma befriend Sarah Platt's (Tina O'Brien) teenage daughter Bethany (Lucy Fallon), and she starts spending time with them at The Dog & Gun pub. Gemma and Callum pressure Bethany into smoking cannabis and, Callum gets Bethany to sell drugs for him. While Sarah is at Callum's flat, Gemma turns up with her face bloodied and battered. She claims that she and Callum are in trouble. After Callum attacks Jason Grimshaw (Ryan Thomas), he and Gemma hatch a plan to stop the Platts from reporting him to the police. Gemma drives Bethany away from the street and shows her a video call from Callum, who has drugged Sarah. He tells Bethany to give him an alibi or he will hurt Sarah. Gemma then drives Bethany to the police station. Callum's plan is successful, and he is released from police custody. Gemma later disagrees with Callum over his plans to leave the country. Callum then receives a text from Kylie saying she has the £20,000 he wants and he tells Gemma to get out of his car. Gemma arrives at the Platt household the following week asking where Callum is, and with Sarah's obvious upset, Gemma notices something is wrong. However, Kylie texts Gemma from Callum's mobile phone saying that he is going to keep a low profile for a while as people are after him, which ultimately prompts Gemma to leave.
Gemma returns a few months later at the salon, stating that she has quit drug dealing and is wanting a job as a salon assistant. Kylie and her husband David Platt (Jack P. Shepherd) decide to hire her to get her to talk about Callum to convince people that he is still alive. Satisfied that she's talked about him enough they fire her from her new job the following day. She later goes to the kebab shop and meets Chesney Brown (Sam Aston). When she sticks up for Chesney after some men complain, she asks Chesney for a job at the kebab shop. She meets his boss Dev Alahan (Jimmi Harkishin) and he offers her a job, which she accepts. After she spends the night with Jason, he is cold towards her as it is his father Tony Stewart's (Terence Maynard) funeral. When she comes back round Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) tells her that she is sorry for the way Jason treated her and decides to go to the funeral after Gemma tells her that she was in love with Callum; but he wouldn't look twice at her but still cares for him.
In July 2016, Gemma is attacked in the kebab shop by fifteen-year-old thug Clayton Hibbs (Callum Harrison), who pushes her to the ground and knocks her unconscious. Kylie intervenes to save Gemma but she is fatally stabbed in the chest by Clayton. Kylie later dies in David's arms before an ambulance arrives. Gemma later prevents Norris Cole (Malcolm Hebden) being conned by Donna-Marie, a girl who Gemma recognises from her estate as a known con artist. After giving evidence at Clayton's, trial she becomes homeless as she is too scared to return home so Rita Tanner (Barbara Knox) lets her move in with her, which irritates Jenny Bradley (Sally Ann Matthews). After Rita begins to lose her memory, Gemma tries to prove that she has dementia to Jenny, but this causes a public argument in The Rovers and Rita being hospitalised after collapsing. In hospital, Gemma is present when Rita is diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told that she needs an operation to remove it, where the doctors will be able to identify whether the tumour is cancerous.
In 2019 Gemma gives birth to 4 children Aled Winter-Brown, Bryn Winter-Brown, Llio Winter-Brown and Carys Winter-Brown and they were all born in Wales as she gave birth to them in Llandudno on a cable car and they gave them Welsh names.
In 2020 Gemma finds out that her son Aled has profound hearing loss. In 2021 he was scheduled to receive a cochlear implant operation to provide him with some hearing ability, although a family friend Freda Burgess who is also death feared that it would cause him to loose his identity. Freda locks herself in the Victoria Street Community Centre with him and refused to let him out until he had missed the operation but two months he had the surgery and it was a success.
In 2023 Gemma and Chesney Brown (Sam Aston) get married and she made a shocking appearance when she walked interest the church wearing a large orange frock with fairy lights on it, but a dramatic confession is made by her twin brother Paul Foreman who confesses to having Motor neurone disease (MND).

## Reception

In June 2017, Campbell won the British Soap Award for Best Comedy Performance. In August, she was longlisted for Funniest Female at the Inside Soap Awards. She later made the viewer-voted shortlist, and won the award on 6 November 2017.