EastEnders’ Gwen Taylor starred in THREE soaps before Albert Square role – here’s where you’ve seen her before
EASTENDERS' star Gwen Taylor has been one of the leading storylines on the BBC soap this year, but did you know she was in three soaps before coming to Albert Square?
That's right, Gwen, 82, had a whole host of soap gigs before landing her spot as Stuart and Callum Highway's savage nan Violet on EastEnders.
Gwen starred as Peggy Armstrong in the drama series Heartbeat.
She played Peggy from 2005 to 2009, appearing in 98 episodes in total.
Peggy was the aunt of David Stockwell and arrived in Aidensfield out of the blue and promptly proceeded to impose herself on her nephew by moving in with him and ordering him about.
She was often found poaching from Lord Ashfordly's estate, but somehow always managed to avoid prosecution.
Following her Heartbeat gig, she starred as Anne Foster in the long-running ITV soap Coronation Street.
From 2011 to 2012 she appeared on our screens she played the mother of Frank Foster (Andrew Lancel) and wife of Sam Foster (Paul Clayton).
In 2020, she also appeared in one episode of Doctors as a character called Olive Wolverton.
The episode was called "Mrs Wolf"; and saw Gwen play an elderly woman who falls in her home.