{"id":639758,"date":"2026-06-15T11:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639758\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:48:31","slug":"coronation-street-sam-actors-famous-family-including-brother-who-is-cobbles-co-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639758\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street Sam actor’s famous family including brother who is cobbles co-star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronation Street’s Jude Riordan, who plays Sam Blakeman on the ITV soap, comes from a showbiz family<\/p>\n

18:55, 13 Jun 2026Updated 18:59, 13 Jun 2026<\/p>\n

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Coronation Street Sam actor’s famous family including brother who is cobbles co-star<\/p>\n

Coronation Street<\/a>‘s Jude Riordan has portrayed Sam Blakeman for several years – but who makes up his famous family?<\/p>\n

Jude arrived on the ITV<\/a> soap in 2020 as Sam Blakeman, the secret son of Nick Tilsley (Ben Price). Since then, Sam has featured in numerous major storylines throughout the programme.<\/p>\n

These include the devastating death of his mother, Natasha Blakeman (Rachel Leskovac), who was murdered by Harvey Gaskell (Will Mellor).<\/p>\n

Recently on the soap, Sam’s mental health has declined, with him experiencing hallucinations. Events took a devastating turn this week, however, when he suffered a psychic breakdown and was sent to hospital.<\/p>\n

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Jude has played Sam for several years(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Yet, it emerges that Jude hails from a distinctly showbiz family. Jude’s father is none other than Paul Riordan, who has helmed numerous episodes of Coronation Street<\/a>, reports the Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul built a thriving career as a television director after entering the industry through a part in Hollyoaks<\/a> years ago. He has subsequently accumulated directing credits on soaps including Emmerdale<\/a> and Casualty.<\/p>\n

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His father is a director on the soap(Image: Instagram )<\/p>\n

In 2021, Paul joined his son Jude on Corrie. Posting a photograph of himself embracing his dad while on the soap’s set, Jude said: “When you haven’t been well but can’t miss your first Corrie scene directed by yer Dad @paulrio27.”<\/p>\n

The previous year, father and son were photographed together on the iconic Cobbles. The image, captured near the street’s salon, was accompanied by the caption “Another blockbuster with the Father @paulrio27 a busy couple of days! More bold choices. Back with him next week @coronationstreet”.<\/p>\n

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Jude\u2019s brother also appeared on the ITV soap<\/p>\n

However, that wasn’t the only family connection, as Jude’s brother Zach also featured in the soap during 2022, portraying Oscar, Sam’s opponent in a chess competition. At the time, Jude shared his thoughts on X about his brother’s appearance on the cobbles.<\/p>\n

“When it was Bring Your Brother to Work Day […] Sam smashed Oscar out of the bistro. BEST DAY so far,” Jude posted following the episode’s broadcast.<\/p>\n

Audiences were stunned by the discovery, with one viewer responding: “Didn’t realise that was your real brother @JudeRiordan wow how lovely! ! They added: “Fab having a scene together playing Chess Rivals!! Will have to watch again on Catch-up.”<\/p>\n

Coronation Street airs Monday to Friday at 8:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronation Street’s Jude Riordan, who plays Sam Blakeman on the ITV soap, comes from a showbiz family 18:55,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2525,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-coronation-street","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}