About Anna Wing
Anna Wing (30 October 1914 – 7 July 2013) was a British actress who had a long career in television and theatre, known for playing Beale family matriarch Lou Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. == Early life == Wing was born in Hackney, London on 30 October 1914, and started out as an artist's model and later, during the Second World War, worked in East End hospitals. In 1947, she married the actor Peter Davey, by whom she had a son, actor-director Mark Wing-Davey, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1950. Her seven years as the lover 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. With her new lover she had a second son, Jon O'Connor. == Career == Wing is best known for playing 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 hit show as she was unhappy with the direction in which it was going, but later reflected that it may not have been the right decision. Wing studied at the Croydon School of Acting in London, and appeared in London repertory theatre for over 65 years. She also performed in Canada at the Stratford Festival in 1967. She made an earlier soap appearance in Market in Honey Lane for ATV in the late 1960s.
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