Nicholas Charles "Nick" Cotton is a fictional character from the British soap opera EastEnders played by John Altman on a recurring basis from the soap's debut episode in February 1985, in six separate stints (1985 to 1991, 1993, 1998, 2000 to 2001, 2008 to 2009 and from 2014 onwards). Nick is the son of characters Charlie (Christopher Hancock) and Dot Cotton (June Brown), and the father of Charlie (Declan Bennett), Ashley (Frankie Fitzgerald) and Dotty Cotton (Molly Conlin). His storylines have seen him twice commit the murder of Reg Cox In 1985 and Eddie Royle in 1991 respectively, succumb to a heroin addiction, his racism and attempts to poison his own mother, causing the death of his son Ashley and faking his own death, amongst numerous other misdemeanours. Nick was also the subject of a special spin-off episode, The Return of Nick Cotton, which aired in October 2000. He has been voted one of television's all-time most villainous characters in a Channel 4 poll. On 29 July 2014, it was confirmed that Altman would return and Nick appeared onscreen again on 24 October 2014. He is the shows original villain as a result of his actions.
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