By Euro Weekly News Media • Published: 11 Jul 2013 • 16:33
Anna Wing, who played sharp-tongued EastEnders matriarch Lou Beale, has died aged 98, her agent has said.
The star, who died on Sunday, appeared in the BBC One soap for three years from its start in 1985.
She formed a formidable on-screen partnership with fellow actress Gretchen Franklin who played Ethel Skinner.
She received the MBE in 2009 in recognition of a career that spanned more than six decades of television, film, radio and theatre. Speaking at the time, she said: “I wanted to be an actress when I was a little girl and everybody said no, but I did it. I stuck it out and I’ve done it for 70 years and I’m still working.”
She appeared in The Bill aged 92 playing a feisty pensioner caught up in a drug deal.
Adam Woodyatt, who plays her grandson, Ian Beale, in EastEnders described Anna as “a wonderful lady”.
June Brown, who plays Dot Cotton, said it was a “pleasure” to work with Anna. She said: “She was a very generous woman in many ways and an excellent actress who made a script her own, lifting the character off the page and made it quite different from what you’d have expected.”
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