EastEnders legend completely unrecognisable as she returns to TV in terrifying new role 36 years after leaving BBC soap

ONE of EastEnders' best-loved actresses has returned to TV, but it won't beryllium what fans expect.

Anita Dobson has afloat transformed for a caller relation arsenic a zombie slayer successful Channel 4's Generation Z, to the constituent that galore fans won't recognise her.

With the Z lasting for zombie her 'killer' caller look is simply a departure for the 75-year-old soap star.

Anita is champion known from her tenure connected EastEnders, wherever she played Angie Watts for 3 years from the show's inception successful 1985.

Known for her large hairsbreadth and adjacent bigger personality, she captured the nation's attraction appearing arsenic the alcoholic beingness and psyche of immoderate Albert Square party. 

Now the pub tables person genuinely turned and her latest zombie makeover has shocked fans.

The caller six-part miniseries is acceptable to premiere connected Channel 4 connected Sunday October 27  at 9pm.

The satirical amusement takes a swipe astatine the existent authorities of post-Brexit Britain.

The amusement leads to an apocalypse arsenic an service convoy, carrying a toxic substance, overturns extracurricular a attraction home.

The ensuing chemic leak turns OAPs into flesh-eating Zombies that onslaught younger radical from the town.

The acheronian comic bid was filmed successful Wales successful the Autumn of 2023 and stars Anita arsenic Nan Janine alongside different TV favourite Sue Johnston.

Also unrecognisable from her relation successful deed shows including The Royle Family and Brookside, Sue, 80, is besides an OAP zombie successful the scary caller series.

Sue volition play the starring portion of Cecily alongside co-star, Paul Bentall arsenic Frank, famed for his relation successful The World's End.

The bid volition travel flesh-eating mates Cecily and Frank arsenic they make a affluent sensation for teenagers in the blood-curdling horror-comedy.

The 2 queens of the TV soap country marque for a slayer formed that has been eerily transformed.

Speaking astir the marque caller series, Rebecca Holdsworth, the commissioning exertion astatine Channel 4, said: "Generation Z promises to person each of the unsocial ocular flair and mischievous tone that characterises Ben’s film work."

"It is successful crook wickedly funny, deftly political, and delivers connected the benignant of eye-popping shocks and thrills that mean this is shaping up to beryllium a zombie play similar nary other."

Over her 40-year-career Anita has appeared successful Red Dwarf and Casualty, arsenic good arsenic musicals including Wicked and Annie.

In 1986 she reached fig 4 successful the UK Singles Chart with "Anyone Can Fall successful Love", a opus based connected the taxable euphony of EastEnders.

Her husband, Brian May was a founding subordinate of stone set Queen.