1988 EastEnders special, CivvyStreet, set during the Second World War. She appears in 232 episodes.

Lou Beale was the first EastEnders character to be created by series co-creator Tony Holland, taking the inspiration for some of the series' earliest characters from his own London family and background.

Lou is the archetypal East End matriarch throughout EastEnders' first

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