On the Buses and EastEnders star Anna Karen has left the bulk of her £427,000 estate to actress and close friend Sophie Lawrence who also starred in the BBC soap, it has been reported. Anna died aged 85 in a fire at her home in Illford, East London, back in February.
After rising to fame starring as Olive Rudge in the ITV sitcom set in a bus station, which ran from 1969 to 1973, Anna played Aunt Sal in EastEnders between 1996 and 2017. Sophie, 50, played Diane Butcher from 1988 to 1991 and then made guest appearances until 2012, the Mirror reports.
According to probate records seen by the MailOnline, Anna's will left 65 per cent of her net estate to Sophie after payment of funeral and legal costs, inheritance tax and a £1,500 legacy to another friend. It's reported that Anna's will left a further fifth of the residuary of her estate to her stepdaughter Gloria Gill, the daughter of her actor husband Terry Duggan, who died in 2008.
