While most American audiences will recognize her much younger in her role as Miss Brahms in the popular PBS Brit-com "Are You Being Served?" she will always be Pauline Fowler to me. Wendy Richard passed away this morning after a long battle with bone cancer. The "EastEnders" matriarch ruled on the soap for over twenty-one years, and was also featured in a few of the "Carry On" films. She won an MBE for television in 2000 and will be sorely missed by many all over the world. Albert Square is just a bit more sad and empty tonight.
Here she is in all her glory, fighting the good fight with Peggy Mitchell, as played by Barbara Windsor, also a "Carry On" veteran. Go get 'er, Pauline!
