Shirley Carter

Shirley Carter is a fictional character and central protagonist of the BBC British soap opera EastEnders. 
She debuted on 9th December 2006 and would become one of the show's central protagonists from then onwards up until her departure on 29th December 2022.
The character is portrayed by .
==Biography==
Shirley Carter first came to Albert Square, the market town of fictional East London borough Walford, on December 2006 towards Christmas that year.
From then onwards, Shirley has represented a number of major storylines on the show. This involved trying to rebuild her parental relationships with her children Carly and Dean respectively; coping with the deaths of her ex-husband Kevin Wicks on New Year's Day 2008 and later her best-friend Heather Trott over four years later; a complicated relationship with local hardman Phil Mitchell; discovering that Phil's wayward son Ben Mitchell is the culprit who killed Heather on the night of her murder despite initially accusing her fiance Andrew Cotton of committing the crime; the introduction of her brother Mick Carter until it later transpired that she is actually his birth mother; accidentally shooting Phil on his wedding day to her love rival Sharon Watts; an on-off feud with her daughter-in-law Linda Carter that was first instigated when Dean raped her and Shirley refused to believe it was true until she later caught Dean attempting to rape Phil's cousin Roxy Mitchell; having a conflict with Dean's one-time girlfriend Shabnam Masood over the custody battle for their daughter and Shirley's granddaughter Jade Green; breaking up with her old flame Buster Briggs following his secret dilliance with Phil's former wife Kathy Beale; getting embroiled in Mick's quarrel with his childhood friend Stuart Highway; discovering that her sister Tina Carter was murdered by lawyer Gray Atkins not long after she was framed for attacking Kathy's son Ian Beale; and grieving for Mick when he is presumed dead at sea following his newfound relationship with local villain Janine Butcher that utlimtately ended in disaster.
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==Trivia==
*Shirley Carter is one of several EastEnders characters to appear in the internet spin-off series EastEnders: E20.
*Former EastEnders executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins has described Shirley Carter as a "new icon" of the show.
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