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
Andy Hunter (EastEnders) when his character was murdered by Johnny. Leslie Grantham's final scenes as Den Watts were screened the same night as Andy's departure. Andy Hunter (EastEnders) Andy Hunter is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", played by Michael Higgs. He first appears in the episode broadcast in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2003. The character was axed in November 2004 and is killed off in the episode shown on 18 February 2005. Andy is an employee of 'The Firm', of which he takes control after the murder of Jack Dalton (Hywel Bennett) by Dennis Rickman (Nigel Harman).