Jessica Barden (born 21 July 1992) is an English actress best known for playing main character Alyssa in Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World. Barden has also played the recurring character Justine in Penny Dreadful. Barden was born in Northallerton, North Yorkshire and moved to Wetherby, West Yorkshire. She made her first appearance on Sunday, 18 March 2007. In April 2008, it was announced that Kayleigh and the rest of the Morton family would leave Coronation Street at the end of 2008, after just a year and a half. Barden made her final appearance on Coronation Street on 29 September 2008. In 2017, she starred in the British horror movie Habit and in the Channel 4/Netflix television series The End of the F***ing World playing Alyssa. In 2018, she stars as Blake in the Drive Films movie The New Romantic.
