Roy Evans is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Tony Caunter from 26 December 1994 to 18 March 2003.

Introduced by executive producer Barbara Emile in 1994, Roy is scripted as a love interest for Pat Butcher (Pam St Clement).

Caunter remained a regular character until new executive producer Louise Berridge axed him in 2003, a decision which she later stated she regretted.

While undertaking business arrangements, Roy meets and is instantly attracted to David's mother Pat Butcher (Pam St Clement).

Recently separated from her former husband Frank (Mike Reid), who has mysteriously disappeared, Pat is unwilling to begin a new romance with Roy.

However, David senses that it may benefit a favorable outcome between their businesses and encourages the relationship to continue; Roy and Pat soon fall in love with each other and move in together.

Despite Frank stirring up buried feelings in Pat to the point of seducing her in a secret one-night stand between them, she ends up divorcing him and marries Roy in November 1996.

Unfortunately for him, Barry is not up to the job; after grifter Vanessa Carlton steals Roy's hard-earned fortune, he is forced to sell his other business (Manor Wood) and come out of retirement.

The two men manage to put their differences aside, subsequent to which Roy and Pat develop a strong friendship with both Frank and his love interest Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor).

Desperate to give Pat a more luxurious lifestyle, he gets himself involved in a car scam operated by Peggy's criminal son and local mechanic Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden).

However, with a furious Pat now knowing about her husband's dishonesty, she goes behind his back, sells his cars for scrap and gives the money to charity.

Roy spends his time drinking heavily, sleeping in the office of the car lot and threatening to turn himself in to the police.

Eventually, when Roy attempts to move out permanently, Pat relents and allows him to stay, but tells him that it will take a long time to earn her trust again.

After many weeks sleeping on the sofa, Pat finally makes up with Roy and he, along with Phil and Frank, eventually retaliate on Dan by conning him to sign back his share of The Queen Vic.

The news upsets the balance in the Evans household, and his relationship with Barry severely suffers as he is devastated to learn that his father was unfaithful to his dead mother, as well as the revelation that he had a brother he knew nothing about.

The pair bond until it is revealed that Nathan has attempted to seduce Barry's wife Natalie (Lucy Speed) and set him up for the theft of money from the car lot.

In March 2003, stress finally gets the better of Roy when he discovers Pat is helping Natalie hide her affair with Frank's son, Ricky (Sid Owen).

Caunter believes the writers made Roy impotent because they were concerned about Pat having sex with someone so soon after her husband Frank absconded.

"[4] Roy suffered a fatal heart attack following the breakdown of his son Barry's (Shaun Williamson) marriage to Natalie (Lucy Speed), making his final appearance in March 2003.

Roy had a stability about him that we needed, and losing both him and Mark Fowler (Todd Carty) within a year left us a kind of moral hole in the centre of the show.