Nadia Mitchell

Infobox EastEnders character 2


character_name=Nadia Mitchell
actor_name=Anna Barkan
years=1993-1994
first=29 June 1993
last=29 August 1994
status=Divorced
home=Germany
husband=Phil Mitchell (1993-1994)

Nadia Mitchell (née Borovac) was a character in the popular BBC soap opera "EastEnders". She was played by Anna Barkan.

Nadia was Phil Mitchell's first wife. They had a marriage of convenience, which enabled Nadia to stay in the country, but Phil soon regretted his decision.

Storylines

Nadia was first seen in June 1993. Phil Mitchell had given Hattie Tavernier a lift to Southampton so she could stop her boyfriend, Steve Elliot, from leaving on a ferry. Phil waited for her at a nearby bar, where he met Nadia. Nadia was a Romanian refugee who had come over to England in order to be with her boyfriend Marco — another immigrant, who had been able to stay in the UK due to a marriage of convenience with an English woman.cite book |last=Brake|first= Colin|authorlink= Colin Brake|title= |year=1995|publisher=BBC Books|id=ISBN 0-563-37057-2]

Nadia was sure that she would be deported. Feeling sorry for her, Phil agreed to marry her so she could also stay in the country. He brought her back to Walford and they married on 8 July 1993. Nadia then departed to live with her boyfriend.Nadia returned in November 1993, needing Phil to play her husband in more realistic ways to prevent her from being deported. While she had been away Phil had started a relationship with Kathy Beale and Nadia's reappearance couldn't have come at a worse time. Phil hadn't helped matters by failing to tell Kathy about Nadia in the first place and she took an instant dislike to her.

Nadia persuaded Phil to allow her to move in with him while the home office undertook their investigation. Nadia managed to convince the representative that the relationship was legit, but she neglected to tell this to Phil and he had no choice but to let her remain living with him. Feeling jealous of her husband's real girlfriend, Nadia made things as difficult as possible for him and Kathy, and finally seduced a drunken Phil at Christmas 1993 and slept with him. Phil regretted it instantly, but Nadia refused to give up and after getting seriously drunk she informed Kathy about their tryst. Phil denied it. He threw Nadia out in January 1994 and she then disappeared after Grant Mitchell threatened to kill her if he ever saw her again. [" [http://archives.walford.net/0932.htm "EastEnders" TUE 04-JAN-94 episode description] ", "Walford.net". URL last accessed on 2006-12-03.]

Phil decided to marry Kathy later in the year, but in order to do this he had to divorce Nadia. He went looking for her in August 1994, but her boyfriend claimed that she had gone "underground" to avoid deportation. However, later in the day Phil paid Marco another impromptu visit and found Nadia with him. She was still furious about the way Phil and Grant had treated her and when Phil asked her for a divorce, she refused. Phil threatened to report her to the authorities, but she promised that if he did she would disappear and he would then be forced to wait until two years of separation had passed before he could be granted a divorce without her consent. However, the following week Nadia showed up in Walford and told Phil she would divorce him and move to Germany, but only if he gave her £1,000. Phil was angry that he was being blackmailed but had no other choice so he gave her the money, after which Nadia departed and was not seen again.

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