EastEnders’ Cindy Williams actress Eva Sayer unrecognisable 15 years after debut
FORMER EastEnders star Eva Sayer looks completely unrecognisable 15 years after playing Cindy Williams.
In October 2021, Liam Butcher made an unexpected return and with came several mentions of Cindy.
Cindy is the daughter of Cindy Beale and Nick Holland.
She was born in prison back in November 1998 as her mother was serving time for the attempted murder of her ex-husband, Ian Beale.
Cindy Sr died while giving birth to Cindy Jr and the young child ended up being raised off-screen by her grandmother.
The most notable actress to take on the role is Mimi Keene, who played Cindy between 2013 and her departure in 2015.
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Aside from EastEnders, fans will know Mimi best from her role as Ruby Matthews in Netflix’s Sex Education.
However, she was last seen on EastEnders in August 2015 as she and Liam fled Albert Square to start a new life in Germany.
During her time on the show, Cindy has been portrayed by three other actresses, Ella Wortley and Cydney Parker in 1998 and 1999 as well as Eva Sayer in 2007.
Eva, now 25, first arrived in Walford as a fresh-faced ten-year-old.
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Before her time on the soap, Eva appeared was on the Inspector Morse spin-off series Lewis, where she acted alongside Kevin Whitely, Laurence Fox and fellow child actress Julia Joyce.
She has also featured in commercials such as BT, TKMaxx Christmas and a Marks and Spencers television campaign playing the young Twiggy.
Eva performed lead roles in the horror feature The Children and BBC's Christmas adaptation of The Turn of the Screw and was more recently involved in the comedy The Death of Stalin.
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