Kate Ford (born 29 December 1976) is an English actress. She has portrayed Tracy Barlow in the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, between 2002 and 2007, and from 2010 onwards. Ford was born in Salford, Greater Manchester. She attended Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria and Blackpool and The Fylde College, Lancashire. She later trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.