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
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