Burnett Crowther

As Angie Watts in Eastenders, Anita Dobson was one of the most popular characters on television, winning her the Pye Award for Television Personality of the year, the Daily Mirror's Actress of the Year and the TV Times Actress of the Year Award voted for by readers.

Anita earned a silver disc for her hit record Anyone Can Fall in Love. An album On My Own followed and she also hit the best sellers list for her book My East End. Anita released another album Talking of Love, written and produced by Queen's Brian May, from which the single Talking of Love hit the singles chart.

Anita has appeared in theatre all over the country and in the West End throughout her career. She starred in Budgie with Adam Faith at the Cambridge Theatre, as Olga in The Three Sisters at the Royal Court, as Madame Jourdain in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at The National Theatre, as Donna in Kvetch at the Garrick, as Luisa Weiss in My Lovely ..Shayna Maidel at the Ambassadors and as Kitty in Charley's Aunt at the Aldwych opposite Gryff Rhys-Jones and she has also worked extensively at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.

Anita's film credits include: Dangerous Obsession, The Titchborne Claimant, The Revengers Comedy, Beyond Bedlam, Seaview Knights, Need, The Euphoric Scale and the feature film Charlie for Midas Films. She also performed in the Dr Who radio series.

On television, to the delight of the public, Anita was reunited with her Eastenders co-star Leslie Grantham in the thriller serial The Stretch and has made countless other television appearances including: Urban Gothic, Casualty, Hearts and Bones, Sunburn, Lily Savage, Dangerfield, Slap Bang with Ant and Dec, the crime drama NCS, Doctors and Holby City all for the BBC and The Last Detective for ITV; She filmed the role of Elaine Wanless in New Tricks for the BBC and a guest role in The Bill as Mrs Hunter, Lady Amelia in Hotel Babylon and Mary in Katy Brand's Big Ass Show  more recently she has appeared in Little Crackers ‘My First Nativity’ playing opposite Catherine Tate, Mrs Christmas in Green Santa Maggie in Coming up ( Hooked ) and Rachel Lan in Casualty.

Anita scored personal success in the role of Gladys in The Pyjama Game at the Birmingham Rep, The Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto and the Victoria Palace Theatre, London. Anita's most recent theatre includes: Late Night Cabaret at The National Theatre entitled Almost Like Being In Love and was dedicated to the work of Alan J Learner; The Vagina Monologues at the Arts Theatre, London, The Lowry Theatre, Salford and most recently at the Wimbledon Theatre, London; V-Day (A Vagina Monologues extravaganza) at the Royal Albert Hall; the role of Cleanthis in The Island of Slaves directed by Neil Bartlett at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and Nancy in Frozen, directed by Bill Alexander at the National Theatre (Cottesloe), for which she received stunning reviews and was nominated for Best Actress for an Olivier Award, Evening Standard and London Theatre Critics Awards. Anita has played the wicked Queen in Snow White in both Croydon and at Tunbridge Wells, the role of Mamma Morton in Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre; as Mrs Meers in the West End version of Thoroughly Modern Millie and as 'Dolly Levirsquo; in Hello Dolly at the Theatre Royal Lincoln; Kurt Weill's opera The Silver Lake for the Wexford Festival then onto the huge revival of Hello Dolly as a UK Tour. She has been seen in Calendar Girls as Chris Harper at the Noel Coward Theatre Two Sisters in Brighton and Eastbourne. Last year she appeared in Sleeping Beauty at Richmond.

Anita has also been the subject of This Is Your Life and a documentary, EastEnders Revealed.