Hollyoaks is a British television soap opera that was first broadcast on 23 October 1995. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2019, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced by executive producer, Bryan Kirkwood. The first character to be introduced is (Imran Adams), the son of Martine Deveraux (Kéllé Bryan). (Chris Simmons), (Alex Williams) and (Naveed Choudhry) first appear in February, March and April, respectively, as part of the soap's far-right extremism story. (Samantha Mesagno), the mother of Lily Drinkwell (Lauren McQueen), also appears in April. (Billy Price), the son of Stuart, joins as a guest character in May, before being promoted to the regular cast in November. (Alexa Lee), the former girlfriend of Harry Thompson (Parry Glasspool),