EastEnders Rosie Miller actress looks completely different for Only Fools and Horses role

EastEnders has welcomed many faces to Albert Square over the years but the Miller family won't ever be forgotten. Fans were left delighted this week as cheeky chap Mickey (Joe Swash) returned to Walford for a short visit.

Fans of the BBC One soap will remember Rosie Miller (Gerry Cowper) and her layabout husband Keith (David Spinx) who could hardly tear himself away from his arm chair and television set. The couple moved onto the Square in 2004 with their children Dawn (Kara Tointon), Mickey and twins Demi (Shana Swash) and Darren (Charlie G. Hawkins).

The family was immediately branded unruly and received anything but a warm welcome from their neighbours. Especially from the likes of Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard) who was disgusted at 13-year-old Demi's teen pregnancy.

READ MORE: BBC EastEnders' top 7 spoilers confirms 'hell breaks loose' for Christmas Day and New Year

READ MORE: BBC Call The Midwife stars address Christmas episode 'challenges' amid drama 'first'

However, viewers fell in love with the rowdy family as we all followed their drama and scandal throughout the 2000s. The Miller matriarch Rosie was played by actress Geraldine "Gerry" Cowper in EastEnders between 2004 and 2006, and the actress also starred on Only Fools and Horses.

The 66-year-old starlet, originally from West London, is also famed for her role as Rowan Morrison in the 1973 horror The Wicker Man and has decades of TV credits under her belt including Casualty, Law and Order, The Bill, Dick Turpin, and many more.

Gerry also starred in two very famous episodes of Only Fools and Horses playing Lisa, the pretty niece of Trigger's (Roger Lloyd Pack), in the Tea for Three episode and The Frog's Legacy.

In Tea for Three, which aired in September 1986, Del Boy (David Jason) and Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lyndhurst) find themselves battling for Lisa's affection. In a dire attempt to impress her, the brothers invite their love interest over to their high rise flat for tea, but Rodney is already red-faced after a sun bed prank.

To avenge Del Boy for his embarrassing antics, Rodney encouraged him to take part in hang gliding over the countryside which doesn't end well. In a brilliant twist, it transpired Lisa was engaged all along.

More than a year later Gerry reprised her role as Lisa in the iconic sitcom as the character got married. The Frog's Legacy aired on Christmas Day in 1987 and sees Del Boy go on a quest to recover stolen gold bullion.

Peckham's favourite wheeler-dealer Del and brother Rodney discover they are entitled to inherit a lot of money after bumping into an old family friend at Lisa's wedding in Hampshire.

The gold belonged to Frederick Robdal, known as Freddie the Frog, who left the wealth to close friend Joan Trotter, who then passed it down to her sons Del and Rodney. In this episode, Gerry Cowper is seen as Lisa at the beginning of the episode.

Despite Joe Swash reprising his role as Mickey on EastEnders, Gerry is yet to make a return to Walford after leaving 18 years ago.

Will Rosie Miller ever return to Albert Square? In the world of soap, anything is possible.

EastEnders airs Monday - Thursday at 7:30pm on BBC One and iPlayer