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[[[Riley Carter Millington]] is an actor. He was cast as "Kyle" in Eastenders starting October 2015, making him the first trans man to play a regular transgender character in a British television soap opera.

Millington, from Stretford, studied drama at Eccles Sixth Form Centre before being cast in EastEnders.[4] Paris Lees described his casting as "the biggest thing to happen for the transgender community in Britain this decade. ... As a pop culture moment this is massive and a sign of the times."<ref>Danny Walker, "Who is Riley Carter Millington? Everything you need to know about EastEnders' new transgender actor", Daily Mirror, 9 October 2015<ref>

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