Dot Cotton Dot Cotton Dorothy 'Dot' Branning (also Cotton) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera, "EastEnders", played by June Brown since 1985. Dot first appeared in "EastEnders" in July 1985 as the mother of criminal Nick Cotton (John Altman). The character has worked as a launderette assistant for most of that time along with original character Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard). Dot moved away with her son and his family in 1993. In reality, Brown left the show in 1993, unhappy with the axing of her co star Peter Dean, who played Pete Beale from the shows first episode to
Dean Wicks on 6 October 2014. Dean's father Buster Briggs, played by Karl Howman, was introduced in mid November. In October 2015, it was announced that Di Angelo would be leaving the show for a second time sometime in 2016. He made his final appearance on 5 February 2016. Dean Wicks Dean Wicks (known as Deano until 2008) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" played by Matt Di Angelo. He made his first appearance on 2 January 2006. It was announced on 18 August 2007 that the characters of Deano and his sister Carly Wicks (Kellie Shirley) were