EastEnders (Mark Thrippleton); wheeler-dealer Vince Johnson (Hepburn Graham) and Laurie Bates (Gary Powell), who became Pete Beale's (Peter Dean) sparring partner. The majority of "EastEnders" characters are working-class. Middle-class characters do occasionally become regulars, but have been less successful and rarely become long-term characters. In the main, middle-class characters exist as villains, such as James Wilmott-Brown, May Wright, Stella Crawford and Yusef Khan, or are used to promote positive liberal influences, such as Colin Russell or Rachel Kominski. "EastEnders" has always featured a culturally diverse cast which has included black, Asian, Turkish, Polish and Latvian characters. "The expansion of minority representation
Dan Sullivan (EastEnders) Dan Sullivan (EastEnders) Dan Sullivan is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", played by Craig Fairbrass. Dan appeared on the show as a regular from 7 June 1999 to 10 July 2000 and then as a recurring character from 26 February to 16 August 2001. He became central to a plot involving a love triangle between himself, his lover Carol Jackson (Lindsey Coulson) and Carol's daughter Bianca (Patsy Palmer) - whom Dan embarks on an affair with. Other major storylines included him being conned out of his share of The Queen Victoria, being framed and wrongly imprisoned