Jane Beale
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| EastEnders character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Laurie Brett | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2004–2012, 2014– | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 2750 22 June 2004 |
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| Introduced by |
Louise Berridge (2004) Dominic Treadwell-Collins (2014) |
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| Spin-off appearances |
EastEnders: E20 (2010) East Street (2010) |
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| Classification | Present; regular | ||||||||||||||||
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| Other names | Jane Clarke Jane Collins |
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| Occupation | Caterer Café manager Businesswoman |
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| Family | Beale |
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| Father | Roger Clarke |
| Mother | Linda Clarke |
| Brothers | Christian Clarke |
| Husband | David Collins (until 2004) Ian Beale (2007–2011, 2015–) |
| Adoptive sons | Bobby Beale |
| Stepsons | Peter Beale |
| Stepdaughters | Lucy Beale |
Lesley Jane Beale (also Clarke and Collins) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera, EastEnders, played by Laurie Brett. She made her first appearance on 22 June 2004. Brett took maternity leave in 2011 and departed on 19 May. She returned on 8 November and departed on 27 January 2012. Jane made a return to the show on 6 January 2014 until 20 May and permanently from 24 November 2014. Her major storylines have included her relationship and later marriages to Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt); the first ended due to his affair with Glenda Mitchell (Glynis Barber), an affair with Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp), her desire to have a child of her own following a hysterectomy, a relationship with Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra), her popular friendship with Tanya Branning (Jo Joyner), covering up her adopted son Bobby's (Eliot Carrington) role in the murder of her stepdaughter Lucy Beale (Hetti Bywater), and being brutally attacked and paralysed by Bobby.
Jane comes to Walford with a funfair, working the candyfloss stall. She argues with Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) but helps out when the funfair collapses. She moves to the Square and becomes friends with Ian. She reveals that her husband, David Collins (Dan Milne), is in a hospice with Huntington's Disease. After he dies, Jane and Ian start dating and she moves in with him and his children, Lucy (Melissa Suffield/Hetti Bywater), Peter (Thomas Law), and Bobby (Alex Francis). When Jane and Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp) intervene in a feud between Ian and Grant's brother Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), they end up kissing. Jane tells Grant she is not in love with him. After an argument with Ian, she has sex with Grant but stays with Ian, and Grant leaves Walford. Phil tells Ian about the affair so Ian proposes to Jane, quietly planning to humiliate her at the wedding. Jane learns this on their wedding day and disappears. Ian finds her and they have a fight but realise they love each other and want to be together. They marry in secret.
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