1. Anna Wing was a British actress who had a long career in television and theatre, known for portraying the role of Beale family matriarch Lou Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
11 Facts About Anna Wing
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Anna Wing is best known for portraying the Beale and Fowler family matriarch Lou Beale on EastEnders from the show's inception in February 1985, until the character was killed off in July 1988.
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Anna Wing studied at the Croydon School of Acting in London, and appeared in London repertory theatre for over 65 years.
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Anna Wing performed in Canada at the Stratford Festival in 1967.
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Anna Wing made an earlier soap appearance in Market in Honey Lane for ATV in the late 1960s.
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Anna Wing had a role in the Doctor Who serial "Kinda" in 1982.
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Anna Wing had numerous television roles, including parts in Casualty, Doctors, French and Saunders, The Bill, as well as adding her vocal talents to the animated series Fungus the Bogeyman.
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In 2005, by now aged 91, Anna Wing formed part of the cast of the short film Ex Memoria, directed by Josh Appignanesi and produced by Oscar-winning producer Mia Bays.
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Anna Wing was a member of the Religious Society of Friends, the Quakers, and supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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Anna Wing attended the funeral of her EastEnders on-screen daughter Wendy Richard on 9 March 2009.
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Anna Wing died at the age of 98 from natural causes in the London Borough of Enfield on 7 July 2013.