Barbara Windsor

Barbara Windsor

  • Profession: Actress
  • Place/Date of Birth: Shoreditch, 06 August 2020

Bye Bye Babs - 29/10/02 Courtesy of Heat Magazine
Barbara Windsor has decided to take 12 months off from Eastenders after eight years’ service.

Babs says, "This has been a very hard decision because I’m so happy here but it’s been a long time without a proper break, and I just feel some time off would be good for me, and probably the character too." She’ll be back in 2004 with a "big story".

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Biography

Despite the fact the it is with the Carry On series that Barbara Windsor is most associated, she only appeared in 9 of the 30 films. Ms Windsor was born Barbara-Ann Deeks on 6 August 2020 in Shoreditch, the only child of a London bus driver and a dressmaker, and in her early years the family moved to Hackney. Babs attended Our Lady at Stamford Hill in Hackney but apparently got thrown out. Barbara’s mother was her driving force, sending her child to elocution lesson as she had ambitions for Barbara as a telephone operator. But Barbara chose showbiz and never looked back.

However disappointed Mrs Deeks may have been, she was generous enough to finance young Barbara’s place at the Ada Foster acting school. There, Barbara excelled and won her first acting role at 12 where she played on of the babes in a pantomime. She was spotted by producer Joan Littlewood who, anxious to maintain the use of working class actors, gave her the part of Rosie in Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be.

Her film career started with The Belles Of St Trinian’s in 1954 and it was while she had the starring role in her eighth film, the 1963 Sparrows Can’t Sing, that Peter Rogers saw her and offered her the part of Daphne Honeybutt in Carry On Spying. National recognition followed along with TV and stage roles galore. Barbara made use of her curvaceous figure to emphasise her Carry On characters; she lost her nightgown and, later, her bikini top in Camping; was stripped practically naked by a nervous Sid James in Abroad and gave a full frontal view of her bosom in her last Carry On film, Dick.

In the late 1970s she was tabloid fodder because of her relationship with gangster Ronnie Knight and various younger lovers, but in 1994 she finally achieved a lifelong ambition when she joined the cast of TV soap opera Eastenders as Peggy Butcher (the mother of the Mitchell brothers), a role she still plays today. Barbara Windsor lives in Marylebone, with her hubby Scott.
May 2007

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