Luke Strong is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

Luke took over Carla Connor's (Alison King) share of the Underworld factory with Tony Gordon (Gray O'Brien).

[1] Luke arrives in Weatherfield on 20 February 2009 replacing Carla Connor (Alison King) as the manager of Underworld.

He initially infuriates Tony Gordon (Gray O'Brien) after refusing to say where Carla was claiming that all he had told her was that the business needed running.

On 30 March 2009, Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne) accidentally drops a lit cigarette while drunk and falls asleep as his flat began to catch fire, Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride) receives a call from Peter's six-year-old son Simon (Alex Bain) telling her that the flat is on fire.

Luke goes on have a brief fling with Michelle Connor (Kym Marsh) before she leaves to go on tour with her band.

Rosie Webster (Helen Flanagan) when she receives a windfall of £150,000 from John Stape (Graeme Hawley).

He lies to her saying that he wants to invest in another company, and that he would like if she bought his shares in Underworld (that were in fact Carla's all along) for £90,000.

The idea of being a majority shareholder in the factory is very appealing for Rosie as she falls for Luke's deceit.

[3] Speaking of the character and plans for him a spokesperson for the soap opera said: "It looks like Tony may have met his match in Luke Strong.

"[1] At the time he was also asked if the character already had certain traits, with Kelly saying: "They started to write for me after the casting, so that's the exciting thing - if I choose to give him some quirks or a tick, the writers will work with that.

Sometimes in soap, characters can be too good to be true, so I think it's time for a hero to waltz in and give the bad guy a run for his money.

"[6] Actor Craig Kelly stated that his main fanbase is women in their 70s and 80s, commenting, "Its my fetish.