From rags to Ricky

Owen, Sid, 1972-2022

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Sid Owen is best known for playing the hapless but loveable EastEnders character Ricky Butcher, one of Britain's most enduring soap icons. What people don't know is that Sid's early life saw more drama than anything his character endured. His father was an armed robber who was sent to prison when Sid was very young. Sid went out 'on the rob' from an early age, breaking into shops and seeing it as a big adventure. Sid lived with his mum and siblings on a sprawling north London council estate until he was 7, when his mum died and the brothers were split up. Sid was heading towards a life of crime. Acting offered an escape from his troubled home life and his teen years played out between extremes - at 13 he was working with Al Pacino and Donald Sutherland on the movie Revolution; at 16 he was living in an Islington squat with his brothers when his work brought him to the attention of the EastEnders producers.