Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949, Stepney, London) is an English television actress and singer. She gained her highest profile while playing Angie Watts in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders. She plays a regular role on the BBC CBeebies sketch show Gigglebiz as Annette of fishing couple Annette and Rod.
Dobson trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Dobson appeared in a few series in the early 1980s, including the Jim Davidso...
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Anita Dobson (born 29 April 1949, Stepney, London) is an English television actress and singer. She gained her highest profile while playing Angie Watts in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders. She plays a regular role on the BBC CBeebies sketch show Gigglebiz as Annette of fishing couple Annette and Rod.
Dobson trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Dobson appeared in a few series in the early 1980s, including the Jim Davidson sitcom Up the Elephant and Round the Castle (1983), but she is best known for playing the emotionally battered and alcoholic landlady, Angie Watts, in the BBC1 soap opera, EastEnders, a role which she played from the show's inception in 1985 to 1988.
Dobson was not the first person to be cast as Angie – another actress, Jean Fennell, had already begun recording when it was decided that her performance did not gel with the original idea of the character, and Dobson was substituted in the role. Whilst playing Angie Watts, alcoholic landlady of...
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