EastEnders is a BBC television programme in the United Kingdom, that has been running since 1985, which has had over 4800 episodes. It is known as a soap opera. The programme goes against Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
The program is located an imaginary area of East London called Walford. Like Coronation Street, most action centers around a local pub. The pub in EastEnders is called The Queen Vic. But unlike many soap operas in the United States or Latin America, EastEnders does not show a wonderful fantasy world of beautiful people but shows a very sad picture of "real life" in a "working class" area of the inner city.
Drug abuse, rape, racism, domestic violence, murder, kidnapping, prostitution, theft, senile dementia, arson and runaway children have all been part of various episodes of the program.
Conflict between members of one family or between different families is often central to the storyline.
[change] Characters
The show's characters are always changing, here is the list of characters who are in the show at the moment.
[change] Main characters
| Character |
Actor |
Old actor(s) |
| Ian Beale |
Adam Woodyatt |
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| Dot Branning |
June Brown |
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| Ricky Butcher |
Sid Owen |
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| Janine Butcher |
Charlie Brooks |
Rebecca Michael, Alexia Demetriou |
| Phil Mitchell |
Steve McFadden |
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| Mandy Salter |
Nicola Stapleton |
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| Carol Jackson |
Lindsey Coulson |
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| Bianca Jackson |
Patsy Palmer |
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| David Wicks |
Michael French |
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| Ben Mitchell |
Joshua Pascoe |
Matthew Silver, Morgan Whittle, Charlie Jones |
| Derek Branning |
Jamie Foreman |
Terence Beesley |
| Billy Mitchell |
Perry Fenwick |
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| Liam Butcher |
James Forde |
Jack and Tom Godolphin, Gavin and Mitchell Vaughan, Nathaniel Gleed |
| Kat Moon |
Jessie Wallace |
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| Mo Harris |
Laila Morse |
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| Patrick Trueman |
Rudolph Walker |
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| Alfie Moon |
Shane Richie |
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| Jane Beale |
Laurie Brett |
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| Jean Slater |
Gillian Wright |
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| Denise Fox |
Diane Parish |
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| Max Branning |
Jake Wood |
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| Tanya Jessop |
Jo Joyner |
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| Abi Branning |
Lorna Fitzgerald |
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| Lauren Branning |
Jacqueline Jossa |
Madeline Duggan |
| Shirley Carter |
Linda Henry |
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| Jay Mitchell |
Jamie Borthwick |
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| Heather Trott |
Cheryl Fergison |
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| Zainab Khan |
Nina Wadia |
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| Roxy Mitchell |
Rita Simons |
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| Tamwar Masood |
Himesh Patel |
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| Masood Ahmed |
Nitin Ganatra |
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| Jack Branning |
Scott Maslen |
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| Christian Clarke |
John Partridge |
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| Whitney Dean |
Shona McGarty |
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| Tiffany Dean |
Maisie Smith |
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| Syed Masood |
Marc Elliott |
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| Amira Shah |
Preeya Kalidas |
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| Kim Fox |
Tameka Empson |
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| Afia Khan |
Meryl Fernandes |
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| Fatboy (Real Name: Arthur Chubb) |
Ricky Norwood |
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| Michael Moon |
Steve John Shepherd |
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| Cora Cross |
Ann Mitchell |
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| Tyler Moon |
Tony Discipline |
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| Lola Pearce |
Danielle Harold |
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| Anthony Moon |
Matt Lapinskas |
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| Andrew Cotton |
Ricky Grover |
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| Rose Cotton |
Polly Perkins |
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[change] Characters who appear often
| Character |
Actor |
Old actor(s) |
| Sal Martin |
Anna Karen |
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| Bobby Beale |
Alex Francis |
Kevin Curran |
| Reverend Stevens |
Michael Keating |
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| Ritchie Scott |
Sian Webber |
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| Janet Mitchell |
Grace |
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| William Mitchell |
Toby Warpole |
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| Oscar Branning |
Charlee and Neo Hall |
Gabriel Miller-Williams |
| Mr Lister |
Nick Wilton |
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| Morgan Jackson King |
Decon Higgs |
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| Amy Mitchell |
Natalia Lipka-Kozanka, Kamil Lipka-Kozanka |
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| Inman Ali |
Emilio Doorgasingh |
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| George Trott |
Unknown |
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| Kamil Masood |
Arian Chikhlia |
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| Tommy Moon |
Ralph and Shane |
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| Shenice Quinn |
Lily Harvey |
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| Yasmin Masood |
Unknown |
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| Character |
Actor |
| Tracey |
Jane Slaughter |
| Winston |
Ulric Browne |
| Harry |
Harry Holland |
| Marie Evans |
Elizabeth Sweet |
| Gaynor Lucas |
Kathleen Fraser |
| Waseem |
Richard Charles |
| Rahul |
Pommy Bhogal |
[change] Characters leaving the show
| Character |
Actor |
| Heather Trott |
Cheryl Ferguson |
| Jane Beale |
Laurie Brett |
[change] Old characters coming back
| Character |
Actor |
Old actor(s) |
| DCI Jill Marsden |
Sophie Stanton |
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| Qadim Shah |
Ramon Tikaram |
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| Lucy Beale |
Hetti Bywater |
Eva Brittin-Snell, Casey Anne Rothery, Melissa Suffield |
[change] New characters
| Character |
Actor |
| Ray Dixon |
Chucky Venn
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