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Lou Beale was the stereotypical dominant East End matriarch - a force to be reckoned with. She ruled her family with a rod of iron, constantly calling 'family meetings' to keep her clan in line, and when she didn't get her way, taking to her bed and sulking,聽feigning sickness.

Never afraid to speak her mind, stubborn and opinionated, woe betide anyone who managed to get on her wrong side. Especially soft-spoken son-in-law Arthur, who became the main target for most of her displeasure and nagging.

She had the respect of her best friends Dot Cotton and Ethel Skinner (and Ethel's little Willy!) but was an incorrigible gossip.

She'd have had you believe she was a paragon of morality and yet she too had her secrets, like a daughter born out of wedlock. Lou died peacefully in her sleep following a jaunt to her beloved Leigh on Sea... not before telling everyone what she thought of them first, though!

Played by Anna Wing