Roxanne Lizette "Roxy" Mitchell (also Slater) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, portrayed by Rita Simons.

A younger version of Roxy, played by Elodie de Rohan Willner, appeared in a flashback episode broadcast on 5 September 2022, which focuses on the Mitchell family in the 1970s.

Her major storylines have included the paternity of her daughter Amy Mitchell (Abbie Knowles), becoming Landlady of The Queen Victoria, becoming a millionairess before squandering all the money on frivolous spending, her popular friendship with Christian Clarke (John Partridge), a feud with Alfie's ex-wife Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace), one-night stands with her sister's two husbands Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) and Charlie Cotton (Declan Bennett), Dean's attempted rape of her, and becoming a drugs mule.

Roxy goes into premature labour and gives birth to a girl, named Amy (Amelie Conway), after Ronnie's daughter who was adopted as a newborn.

[9] Roxy then begins dating local GP Al Jenkins (Adam Croasdell), however their relationship ends when someone complains that he is seeing his patient.

Following Archie's funeral, Roxy meets their younger brother Danny Mitchell (Liam Bergin) for the first time; they invite him to stay.

He gains Roxy's trust, but she is unaware that he and their estranged mother Glenda Mitchell (Glynis Barber) are planning to steal her inheritance.

Roxy spends frivolously until she only has £20,000 left and this is stolen by her cousin Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and his partner Shirley Carter (Linda Henry).

Roxy agrees to be a surrogate mother for her gay friend Christian Clarke (John Partridge) and his partner Syed Masood (Marc Elliott) in 2011, but despite their attempt, she does not become pregnant.

Roxy is left mortified upon discovering Ronnie's newborn baby, James Branning, died of sudden infant death syndrome and Ronnie swapped her baby with Kat Moon's (Jessie Wallace) newborn, Tommy, who is also the biological son of Roxy's boyfriend Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd).

They momentarily soften towards each other, which leads to sex, but after Roxy discovers Jack has forged her signature to get Amy a passport, she believes he is intending to flee the country with her daughter.

Roxy is comforted by her friend and boss, Alfie Moon (Shane Richie), after her attempts to seduce Max Branning (Jake Wood) are made public.

She asks Dean to keep their relationship secret, due to him being hated by the community for raping Linda Carter (Kellie Bright).

[16] Dean becomes insecure that Roxy is spending time working with Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra), so employs her as manager of his salon.

When she says he needs to take himself less seriously, Dean cuts a chunk out of her hair in anger, but immediately apologises and proceeds to give her a proper haircut.

[21] One month later, Roxy does not return for Dean's court case, where he pleads not guilty and is remanded in custody until a retrial in June, so Ronnie calls her to inform her of this.

Roxy appears in discomfort and pain, and tells her relative Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) that she has £10,000 worth of cocaine inside her and she thinks something has gone wrong.

[26] However, they both change their minds for the sake of their families, and Roxy puts effort into finding work, and agrees to help Donna Yates (Lisa Hammond) on her market stall.

[33] Roxy returns a day later to pack her things and refuses to go to Ronnie's wedding in fear she will ruin it, saying she is going to move in with Glenda and Danny.

Ronnie is shocked to see her unconscious at the bottom of the pool and attempts to rescue her, but her wedding dress weighs her down and she drowns alongside Roxy.

To the instrumental sound of "Little Green Bag" by George Baker (famously used in the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs), each sister discussed their sibling, giving snippets of information on their personality and the dynamics of their relationship.

He commented, "now there's more to the long running BBC1 soap, apparently...Yes, it's the new sexed-up, soft focus, raunchy EastEnders trailer and it's hitting your TV screens now.

In a bid to welcome the Mitchell sisters to Albert Square, the beeb have pulled out all the stops and come up with a very slick marketing campaign indeed."

The prize consisted of VIP tickets to a special party, which was to be attended by EastEnders actors and Radio 1 DJ Dave Pearce.

"[49] In April 2011, Roxy discovers that Ronnie swapped her dead baby, James, with Kat Moon's healthy son, Tommy.

[56] It was revealed that Roxy will confess her feeling for Alfie to his wife Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace) when she returns to the square.

[57] A source told the Daily Star Sunday "Everyone has been eagerly awaiting Kat's return to Albert Square and it doesn't disappoint.

Having joined the show in 2007, Rita immediately won the hearts of the audience in the role of Roxy Mitchell and between her and Samantha Womack they created one of the most iconic duos EastEnders has ever seen.

Alongside Samantha, Rita was recently offered to take part in the same big storyline that will see the Mitchell sisters depart Walford forever, but we will not be releasing any further details at this time.

[65] In 2020, Sara Wallis and Ian Hyland from The Daily Mirror placed Roxy 34th on their ranked list of the Best EastEnders characters of all time, writing that she had " a string of bad relationships, feuds and a coke habit".