Hollyoaks is a British television soap opera that was first broadcast on 23 October 1995. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2019, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by executive producer, Bryan Kirkwood. The first character to be introduced is (Imran Adams), the son of Martine Deveraux (Kéllé Bryan). (Chris Simmons), (Alex Williams) and (Naveed Choudhry) first appear in February, March and April, respectively, as part of the soap's far-right extremism story. (Samantha Mesagno), the mother of Lily Drinkwell (Lauren McQueen), also appears in April. (Billy Price), the son of Stuart, joins as a guest character in May, before being promoted to the regular cast in November. (Alexa Lee), the former girlfriend of Harry Thompson (Parry Glasspool), is also introduced in May. The following month features the introduction of (Cerith Flinn), a love interest for Scott Drinkwell (Ross Adams), and the appearance of (Jack Reynolds). (Nav Sidhu), the half-brother of Sami Maalik (Rishi Nair), debuts in September, and during October, (Ariana Fraval), the detective sergeant investigating Harry's murder, and builder (Jake Quickenden) join the show. Married couple (Bobby Gordon) and (Andrea Ali) are introduced in November, while (Connor Calland) is the final character to debut in the year, arriving in December. Additionally, multiple appear throughout the year.