Natalie Watkins

Natalie was a waitress working for Nick and Elsa Tilsley at Bergman's Bar and Grill in Nottingham.

Nick and Elsa's relationship floundered and Nick returned to Weatherfield with his finances in a mess and owing money to Elsa. When Archie Shuttleworth died in December 2018 and left £80,000 to his grandmother Audrey Roberts, Nick saw an opportunity and decided to "borrow" the money, obtaining it with access to Audrey's PIN numbers and passwords that he obtained from her notebook.

He needed an accomplice to withdraw the money from the account to which the money had been transferred and unwisely chose Natalie, for a fee. After a couple of weeks, she started to call Nick, demanding to speak to him, but he tried to put her off. She therefore came to Weatherfield herself, putting Nick into a panic when girlfriend Leanne Battersby saw her but he span a yarn that she was his solicitor handling his divorce from Elsa and Natalie coolly went along with the deception.

Nick hurried her away to Speed Daal where she presented her demand: £2,000 more or Elsa would find out he had had a sudden windfall, putting his divorce in jeopardy. He warned her that she was playing a very dangerous game but she further panicked him when she enquired of Yasmeen Nazir if she had any jobs going at the restaurant, making it quite clear to Nick that she would hang around and be close to his family if he didn't comply.

Her arrival did present another problem: Nick's brother David Platt saw Natalie with Nick and had another viewing of CCTV footage the police had of her withdrawing the cash, recognising her from a distinctive tattoo on the back of her neck, and thus confirming his suspicions that Nick was the one behind the robbery.
 * The character appeared uncredited in Episode 9657 (2nd January 2019) in the CCTV footage that PC Clements showed to Audrey Roberts of a cash withdrawal taking place.