Gary Windass is a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street, portrayed by Mikey North. The character made his first appearance on 14 November 2008, the same episode where his parents Eddie (Steve Huison) and Anna Windass (Debbie Rush) were introduced on the show as well. Since then, Gary has been involved in relationships with Izzy Armstrong (Cherylee Houston), Alya Nazir (Sair Khan) and Sarah Platt (Tina O'Brien). The character has also embarked on a feud with Sarah's brother David Platt (Jack P Shephard), along with Izzy's father Owen Armstrong (Ian Puleston-Davies) and Anna's rapist Pat Phelan (Connor McIntyre) — the latter of whom he becomes archenemies with from 2014 to 2018. During his time on the show, Gary's storylines have included his conflict with PTSD after joining the army, forming a business partnership with Owen, bonding with parents' adopted daughter Faye (Ellie Leach), a brief custody battle against ex-girlfriend Tina McIntyre (Michelle Keegan) after she becomes their surrogate and gives birth to Gary and Izzy's son, Jake, a close friendship with Faye's biological father Tim Metcalfe (Joe Duttine), helping Sarah's daughter Bethany (Lucy Fallon) overcome her troubles with bullying in school and being subjugated to child grooming and sexual exploitation by her pimp boyfriend Nathan Curtis (Christopher Harper), a one-night stand with Phelan's daughter Nicola Rubinstein (Nicola Thorp), which results in her giving birth to their son Zack and appointing Faye's boyfriend Seb Franklin (Harry Visinoni) to become his apprentice. In 2019, Gary becomes the show's main antagonist when he is revealed to be the culprit who caused the death of Alya's sister-in-law, Rana Habeeb (Bhavna Limbachia) upon sabotaging the Underworld Factory roof — in his attempt to sort out his debts to loan shark Rick Neelan (Greg Wood), leading to the collapse of the factory roof and Rana being killed from the incident as a result. The character later killed Rick in self-defense when the latter tried to murder him in the woods, subsequently taking over his criminal empire as a result. Soon afterwards, Gary proceeded to establish a relationship with David's colleague Maria Connor (Samia Longchambon), clash with Rana's brother Imran over the circumstances behind his sister's death, become enemies with Sarah's boyfriend Adam Barlow (Sam Robertson) after growing jealous of their newfound romance, develop a feud with Maria's love interest Ali Neeson (James Burrows), hospitalise Ali's brother Ryan (Ryan Prescott) after beating him up for unintentionally stealing his money and blackmail his own client Derek Milligan into partaking with his scheme to invest the factory — which ultimately sparked the events of Derek instigating a lethal Christmas siege that culminates with his own death, though not after accidentally killing Ali's stepfather Robert Preston (Tristan Gemmill) and shooting David's girlfriend Shona Ramsey (Julia Goulding) in the resulting impact.