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Dorothy "Dot" Branning (née Colwell; previously Cotton) is a fictional character in the popular BBCsoap opera, EastEnders. She is played by June Brown, but was played by Tallulah Pitt-Brown in flashbacks in a special episode entitled EastEnders: Dot's Story.Dot first appeared in EastEnders in July 1985 and has worked as a launderette assistant for most of that time along with her best friend Pauline Fowler. She took a four year absence from the show in 1993 when she moved away with her son Nick Cotton and his family and returned in 1997. She is known for her devout Christian faith, addiction to cigarettes, and motherly attitude to those in need. Since Pauline Fowler's death in December 2006, Dot remains as the main assistant of the launderette. Dot is married to Jim Branning, and she was previously wed to conman Charlie Cotton with whom she had her only son Nick.On 31 January 2008, Dot became the first character ever to appear in a "single-hander" episode of a British soap. The acclaimed episode saw Dot reminiscing about her years of loss and grief into a tape recorder as a message to her ailing husband Jim. >> By WikiPedia
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