Nick Cotton
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| EastEnders character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | John Altman | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1985–1991, 1993, 1998, 2000–2001, 2008–2009, 2014–2015 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | Episode 1 19 February 1985 |
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| Last appearance |
Episode 5017/5018 "Look Back in Anger" 19 February 2015 |
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| Created by | Julia Smith and Tony Holland | ||||||||||||||||
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| Spin-off appearances |
The Return of Nick Cotton (2000) | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||
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| Other names | Reg Cox | ||||||||||||||||
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| Father | Charlie Cotton |
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| Mother | Dot Cotton |
| Half-brothers | Andrew Cotton |
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| Daughters | Dotty Cotton |
| Grandsons | Matthew Mitchell-Cotton |
| Aunts | Rose Cotton |
Nicholas Charles "Nick" Cotton is a fictional character from the British soap opera EastEnders played by John Altman on a recurring basis from the soap's debut episode in February 1985, in several separate stints, a regular in 1985 then a recurring character from 1986 to 1989, a regular in 1990 and 1991 with guest appearances in 1993 and 1998 and as a regular from 2000 to 2001, 2008 to 2009 and from 2014 until the character's demise in 2015. Nick is the son of characters Charlie (Christopher Hancock) and Dot Cotton (June Brown), and the father of Charlie (Declan Bennett), Ashley (Rossi Higgins/Frankie Fitzgerald) and Dotty Cotton (Molly Conlin) (all three of whom were initially kept secret from his mother). His storylines have seen him commit the murders of Reg Cox in 1985 and Eddie Royle in 1991, succumb to a heroin addiction, his racism, his attempts to poison his own mother, conspiring to fake his own death and unintentionally causing the deaths of his son Ashley in 2001 and former police officer Emma Summerhayes (Anna Acton) in 2015. On 29 July 2014, it was confirmed that Altman would return and Nick appeared on-screen again on 24 October 2014.
Nick has also embarked on numerous feuds with the likes of Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick), Nigel Bates (Paul Bradley), Mark Fowler (David Scarboro/Todd Carty), Ali Osman (Nejdet Salih), Pete Beale (Peter Dean), Den Watts (Leslie Grantham), Tony Carpenter (Oscar James) and Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack).
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