Helen Joyce Gabriel Flanagan (born 7 August 1990) is an English actress, model, and television personality. She is known for playing the role of Rosie Webster in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2000 to 2012 and reprised the role in 2017. She was voted the most attractive British celebrity in the 2013 FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll. Flanagan posed topless as a Page 3 girl in the 10 September 2013 edition of The Sun.
Helen Flanagan was born in Bury, Greater Manchester. She started taking drama lessons from the age of 5 at Carol Godbys Theatre Workshop in Bury. She was in numerous adverts, before landing the part of Rosie Webster Coronation Street, in 2000. She expressed a great passion and talent for acting at a very early age. She currently attends Westholme independent school, though has an on-set tutor as well.