EASTENDERS' Dotty Cotton burst onto screens on Christmas Day in 2008 -making an instant star of actress Molly Conlin.
However, you wouldn't recognise her more than a decade after playing the sinister schoolgirl daughter of Nasty Nick.
She joined the soap aged just seven after auditioning for the role of Tiffany Dean that went to Maisie Smith.
Instead bosses offered her the part of Dotty instead – changing her age from 11 to seven so she would fit the part.
She stayed on the show until 2010 when the character was written out of the show as going to live with her mum Sandy.
In 2019, Dotty returned alongside show veteran Dot Cotton but now played by Milly Zero, the 22-year-old who still plays her today.
After the show she appeared in a string of shows, from Blandings to Horrible Histories and has also appeared in several ads.
The star, who turns 21 later this month, now has a huge following on social media, sharing shots from the gym, on nights out and on her travels.
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In 2020 she revealed she was held at knifepoint by robbers who stole a car, phone and watch in a terrifying raid at her Essex home.
The actress, who played Dotty Cotton in the soap, said two thugs burst into her home in a daylight attack.
The star opened the door thinking there was a delivery but two men barged into her house.
She explained: "I was literally praying as I thought I was going to die.
"Little did I know 2 had come through the back of my house also and found my brothers car keys and later all jumped into his black Audi A1 and took my phone and a watch.
"They was screaming at me, telling me they was going to hurt me if I didn’t give them anything while I was begging for my life being pinned down to the floor."
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