Overview

• Laura Doddington contemplated leaving acting and training as a hairdresser before securing her breakthrough role after 22 years in the industry.
• She debuted as Nicola Mitchell on EastEnders in November 2024, arriving from prison for injecting unlicensed filler.
• Her character’s dramatic confession to murdering Shireen Bashar was part of covering up the truth that Zack Hudson is Barney Mitchell’s biological father.
• Following the paternity revelation, Harry Mitchell kidnapped Zack Hudson, resulting in a vehicle crash that has left Zack feared dead.
• Doddington has earned a Best Newcomer nomination at the British Soap Awards, scheduled for June 5 at the Hackney Empire in London.