EastEnders confirms Rebecca Fowler casting details

EastEnders bosses have confirmed casting details of Rebecca Fowler.

The teenager will be portrayed by Jasmine Armfield when she returns to the BBC One soap early next year with her mother Sonia (Natalie Cassidy).

An EastEnders press blurb describes Rebecca as a bright child who is also a little fighter and passionate about music. Although she strives to do well in life and make her parents proud, this determination could prove to be the making or the undoing of her.

Rebecca is the result of a fling with Martin Fowler (James Alexandrou) when Sonia was just 15. Sonia initially gave Rebecca up for adoption but was later reunited with her daughter whose adoptive parents were killed in a car crash.

Jasmine’s first episode as Rebecca will transmit in January 2014.