Actor Mike Parr, who plays Emmerdale 's Ross Barton, has teased "traumatic" scenes ahead as a villain causes drama next week Ross finds himself facing his past, with the ITV soap revisiting a tragic storyline from 2014. Ross' first love Donna Windsor took her own life and killed villain Gary North when she jumped from the top of a multi-storey carpark, and Ross witnessed the devastating scenes. Ten years later, and now Ross is dragged back to that same location, with Donna's daughter April