Name the actress who left Eastenders in 2011 after 25 years in the show, she played Pat Evans (also Beale, Wicks and Butcher)?
Pat Butcher Pat Butcher Pat Butcher (also credited with the names Wicks and Evans), is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders". She was played by Pam St. Clement from 12 June 1986, just over a year after the show first aired, until her departure on 1 January 2012. Pat was also portrayed by Emma Cooke in a soap 'bubble' "Pat and Mo: Ashes to Ashes", delving into her past with sister-in-law Mo Harris (Laila Morse), which aired in 2004. The character was killed off on 1 January 2012, shortly after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Her funeral was on
Roy Evans (EastEnders) wasn’t going to do it for anyone else. To galvanise Pat we had to lose Roy. But I wish now we’d found some other way. Roy had a stability about him that we needed, and losing both him and Mark Fowler (Todd Carty) within a year left us a kind of moral hole in the centre of the show. Those older ‘good’ characters have a role that extends far beyond the immediate gratification of story – as Lou Beale did in the past." Roy Evans (EastEnders) Roy Evans is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", played by