Ashley Cotton is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, the son of Zoe Cotton and Nick Cotton and the grandson of Dot Cotton. He was played by Rossi Higgins in 1993, and then by Frankie Fitzgerald from 2000 to 2001.

Nicholas Charles "Nick" Cotton is a fictional character from the British soap opera EastEnders played by John Altman on a semi-regular basis from the soap's debut episode on 19 February 1985. Altman has stated that his initial exit was due to producer Julia Smith demanding he was written out after he opposed a decision to make his character gay. After Smith's departure, the character made numerous brief or more protracted stints until his onscreen death in February 2015, which was written to coincide with the 30th anniversary of EastEnders.