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Anna Eva Lydia Catherine Wing, MBE (born 30 October 1914) is an English actress. She has had a long career in television and theatre, but is most known for playing Lou Beale, the family matriarch of the Beale and Fowler family on EastEnders. Wing was born in Hackney, London, and started out as an artist's model and later, during the Second World War, worked in East End hospitals. At 30, she married the actor Peter Davey, by whom she had a son, actor-director Mark Wing-Davey, but the marriage ended in divorce after three years. Her five years as the partner of Philip O'Connor, a surrealist... MORE

Anna Eva Lydia Catherine Wing, MBE (born 30 October 1914) is an English actress. She has had a long career in television and theatre, but is most known for playing Lou Beale, the family matriarch of the Beale and Fowler family on EastEnders. Wing was born in Hackney, London, and started out as an artist's model and later, during the Second World War, worked in East End hospitals. At 30, she married the actor Peter Davey, by whom she had a son, actor-director Mark Wing-Davey, but the marriage ended in divorce after three years. Her five years as the partner of Philip O'Connor, a surrealist writer and contemporary of Stephen Spender and Laurie Lee, saw her spend some time as a nursery teacher in West London. She had a second son by Philip, Jon O'Connor, who also taught and currently works in education management and consultancy. She attended the funeral of her EastEnders onscreen daughter Wendy Richard on 9 March 2009. She is a member of the Religious Society of Friends. Wing is best known for portraying the Beale and Fowler family matriarch Lou Beale on EastEnders from the show's inception in February 1985, until the character was killed off in July 1988. She quit her role in the LESS