ABOUT ANN MITCHELL
Played the loud, obnoxious mother Cora Cross in the BBC soap opera EastEnders .
She played Dolly Rawlins in the groundbreaking crime series Widows, winning an award for the influential role.
She was cast on a four-episode guest stint of Eastenders but was later signed to the show as a regular.
Her son Che Walker also appeared in EastEnders.
On stage she co-starred opposite Kim Cattrall in a West End production of Whose Life Is It Anyway?
