Barbara Windsor in pantomime

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SPOTLIGHT ON

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WINDSOR

1937 - 2020

Dame Barbara Windsor, DBE (born Barbara Ann Deeks; 6 August 1937 in Shoreditch, London) was an English actress, known for her appearances in the Carry On films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. Barbara began her career on stage in 1950 at the age of 13 and made her film debut in The Belles of St Trinian's (1954). She received a BAFTA Award nomination for the film Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), and a Tony Award nomination for the 1964 Broadway production of Oh, What A Lovely War!.

PANTOMIME HISTORY

1950: Sleeping Beauty - Golders Green Hippodrome

1955: Red Riding Hood - Shakespeare Theatre Liverpool

1957: Aladdin - Winston Nightclub London

1970: Cinderella - Theatre Royal Norwich

1971: Cinderella - Royal Court Theatre Liverpool

1975: Dick Whittington - Richmond Theatre London

1976: Aladdin - Bradford Alhambra

1977: Aladdin - Birmingham Alexandra

1978: Dick Whittington - Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon

1979: Dick Whittington - Richmond Theatre London

1980: Jack & the Beanstalk - Theatre Royal Nottingham

1981: Aladdin - Theatre Royal Nottingham

1982: Aladdin - Oxford Apollo

1983: Aladdin - Chichester Festival Theatre

1984: Dick Whittington - Orchard Theatre Dartford

1985: Aladdin - Theatre Royal Nottingham

1986: Dick Whittington - Beck Theatre Hayes

1987: Babes in the Wood - London Palladium

1988: Babes in the Wood - Churchill Theatre, Bromley

1989: Cinderella - Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage

1990: Cinderella - Wimbledon Theatre

1991: Aladdin - Derngate Theatre Northampton

1992: Cinderella - Theatre Royal Brighton

1993: Aladdin - Gordon Craig Theatre Stevenage

1994: Cinderella - Anvil Theatre, Basingstoke

1995: Cinderella - Orchard Theatre, Dartford

2010: Dick Whittington, Bristol Hippodrome

SPOTLIGHT FACT

"What a special lady, a one of a kind national treasure who will be much missed. Barbara was the very first person I saw perform in panto as a child in 1982, she started my love of panto and all things theatre, for many she will be remembered as the giggly carry on blonde or as Peggy Mitchell but for me she will forever be the ultimate Fairy Bowbells”