Seb Franklin was a character in Coronation Street first seen in 2016, and died in May 2021 after being attacked brutally by Corey Brent and his mates. He was the former boyfriend of Faye Windass. Seb is played by Harry Visinoni.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Sebastian Franklin was born in March 2001 to Tez Wyatt and Abi Franklin, the eldest of her 3 children. Abi had a string of flings with different men later on.
2016-2021[]

Seb Franklin.
Seb started hanging around with Faye Windass. Originally a rebellious character who stole things and romanced underage Faye, Seb did mature more when he got a job working for sleazy builder Pat Phelan. Seb assaulted Jackson Hodge in a jealous rage. Phelan sometimes took his anger out on Seb when Seb tried to wind him up. Seb seemed to side with Phelan's worst enemies, mother and son Anna Windass and Gary Windass. Phelan then planned to frame Seb for the murder of Andy Carver.
Seb later fell for Alina Pop.
In early 2021 Seb fell for Roy Cropper's niece Nina Lucas they were attacked by Corey and Kelly Neelan. Although directly after the attack, while hurt, Seb was still conscious and alert, as he tried to rouse an unconscious Nina, and called an ambulance before falling unconscious. Seb and Nina were then rushed to hospital.
Then on the 7th of May 2021 tests showed that his brain had stopped sending signals to his body resulting in his heart stopping beating. His death leaving the whole street grieving his loss but his death was extremely hard on his mother Abi Franklin and Eileen Grimshaw who was a mother like figure for Seb.
Abi Then later had another baby boy Alfie Webster which belonged to Imran Habeeb.
Legacy[]
Corey was charged for Seb's murder and later given a life sentence for the crime.
2025[]
Trivia[]
- Originally it was reported that Seb would turn out to be the grandson of Pat Phelan and son of Nicola Rubenstein, however this turned out not to be the case (although Nicola was revealed to be Phelan's long lost daughter).
- It was announced that Seb and Nina would be involved in a hate crime storyline due to being goths, although it was not revealed Seb would die during the attack. The character departed in May 2021 in which his life support was turned off.
- Seb's death was similar to that of Duggie Ferguson's death 19 years earlier. Both initially survived the respective fall/beating and had a lucid moment by crawling along before succumbing to their injuries.
- Harry Visinoni will reprise the role of Seb later in 2021 as part of a flashback taking place before the character's murder.
- In January 2025 it was revealed that Visinoni will reprise the role of Seb as a hallucination experienced by Abi following the murder of Mason Radcliffe.
Memorable info[]
Appearances: 10 Oct 2016-25 Sep 2020, 6 Jan 2021-7 May 2021, 30 Aug 2021 (flashback), Jan 2025 (hallucination)
Born: 6th March 2001
Death: 7th May 2021
Full Name: Sebastian Franklin
Parents: Abi Franklin and Tez Wyatt
Siblings: Lexi and Charlie Franklin (half same mother)
Spouse:
Children: None