Frankie Osborne (also Dean) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Helen Pearson. She made her first on-screen appearance on 9 October 2002. Frankie was once the longest serving female character in the show. On 9 October 2017, Pearson announced that she would depart the show and Frankie was killed off on 1 November 2017 after suffering a stroke, making her the second member of the family of Dean to be killed off since her daughter Steph Cunningham (Carley Stenson) in 2010. She made her final appearance on 27 November 2017 as a ghost to Jack Osborne.