Rose Kelly (Waterloo Road)

 Rose Kelly is a fictional character in the popular BBC television drama series Waterloo Road''. She is portrayed by Elaine Symons.

Series 4
Rose was born in East London to Irish parents, and grew up on a rundown council estate where she gave birth to her first child (Marley) at the age of 16 and her son (Earl) to the same man who fathered Marley.

Within five years, she had three more children, Sambuca Kelly with another Reynold Kelly, a violent man who drove her to alcoholism. She then went on to have two more sons, (Denzil) and (Prince).

She antagonised Candice Smilie in the adult education courses at Waterloo Road, but after working together in the school caneteen they formed a very close friendship. Even Rachel, wants to reach out to her family and her kids who have been taken into foster care amid fears of over their welfare due to her alcoholism. Her kids do not believe in her, but Rachel thinks she has the potential to go far.

She regained custody of her children in the episode that aired on 25 February 2009, but on the same day Earl fatally shot his girlfriend Maxine Barlow, putting the family future under new doubt as he was swiftly tracked down and gave himself up to the police as a murderer.

The motive behind Earl shooting Maxine was that she had dumped him after speaking to a homeless girl who claimed that Earl was the father of their three-day-old baby. If true, this would make Rose a grandmother when only in her early thirties. Currently, Rose is attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings at the request of teacher Tom Clarkson.