peggy mitchell / barbara windsor ???

[sue w]

Can someone please settle an arguement for me.was there another actress who played peggy mitchell in eastenders before barbara windsor.i think not but my hubby is 100% convinced there was !!!!!!

[Ethel]

Peggy Mitchell used to be played by Jo Warne.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Mitchell

[Ward-Minter]

here you will see hubby is 100 percent right.

[Postdog]

Yeah, weird things happened to the daughter too!

[Fibonacci]

The character of Peggy Mitchell was played by Jo Warne in 1991 making her first appearance on 30th April

see http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0088512/fullcredits

she has appeared in af ew bbc televsion programmes and has featured in a couple of episodes of The Bill over the years

[luckyboy]

And was also a far better actress than lady windsor, but its a trend that has is familiar to soaps, replace a lesser known but much better actor with a more famous or glamorous figure..with sometimes shocking results see susan penhaligan in emmerdale.