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Anita Dobson

About Actress Anita Dobson our Elizabeth I

As Angie Watts in Eastenders, Anita Dobson was one of the most popular characters on television, winning her the Pye award for Television Personality Of The Year, the Daily Mirror’s Actress Of The Year and the TV Times Actress Of The Year award, voted by the readers.

Anita’s many stage appearances include The Three Sisters (Royal Court); Frozen (Royal National Theatre) for which she was nominated for an Olivier, Evening Standard and London Critics Award; Hamlet (on tour and The New Ambassadors); ‘Dolly Levi’ in Hello Dolly (Theatre Royal Lincoln); Mistress Q in Merry Wives of Windsor (for the RSC), as Jocasta in Steven Berkoff's production of Oedipus (Edinburgh Festival at the Pleasance Grand).

Anita has won a whole new legion of fans following her success on Strictly Come Dancing. She recently starred in a new film London Road taken from the acclaimed National Theatre production directed by Rufus Norris.