The 31-year-old plays the EastEnders matriarch in BBC One’s drama about her – Babs. But the daughter of star Ray Winstone found it daunting to play a young Barbara. Babs starts with her first stage appearance aged six and recalls her turbulent relationship with her father and rocky marriage to first husband Ronnie Knight. The […]
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Babs: Jamie Winstone reveals how this encounter landed her Barbara Windsor role at FIFTEEN
Winstone stars as the EastEnders icon throughout her twenties, during her explosive marriage to Ronnie Knight, nights out with the Kray twins, and bursting into showbiz on Broadway and, of course, the Carry On films. Naturally, the task of playing a national treasure was “terrifying” for Jamie, though, she knew the part was hers since […]