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13-02-2010, 08:24
EASTENDERS star Nina Wadia has been given time off from Albert Square to play a Doctor Who baddie.
Nina, 41 - battleaxe Zainab Masood in the soap - will portray an evil psychiatric expert alongside new Doctor Matt Smith.
Her sharp-tongued EastEnders character is currently at war with gay son Syed, who she forced into marrying Amira Shah (Preeya Kalidas).
Nina said of her Who role: "It was brilliant to be let out for a couple of days to do something else and it was great working with Matt Smith.
"I play a bit of a baddie. And yes, like my EastEnders character Zainab, she's not a very pleasant woman - but at least I'm human and not some kind of strange alien life-form."
Nina added: "I play a doctor - more of a psychiatric doctor than a traditional medical one."
The episode will be broadcast in the spring.
Nina, who starred in hit movie Bend It Like Beckham, has been one of EastEnders' key characters over the past year.
The Sun
Wonder how they will write her out of EE :hmm:
Nina, 41 - battleaxe Zainab Masood in the soap - will portray an evil psychiatric expert alongside new Doctor Matt Smith.
Her sharp-tongued EastEnders character is currently at war with gay son Syed, who she forced into marrying Amira Shah (Preeya Kalidas).
Nina said of her Who role: "It was brilliant to be let out for a couple of days to do something else and it was great working with Matt Smith.
"I play a bit of a baddie. And yes, like my EastEnders character Zainab, she's not a very pleasant woman - but at least I'm human and not some kind of strange alien life-form."
Nina added: "I play a doctor - more of a psychiatric doctor than a traditional medical one."
The episode will be broadcast in the spring.
Nina, who starred in hit movie Bend It Like Beckham, has been one of EastEnders' key characters over the past year.
The Sun
Wonder how they will write her out of EE :hmm: