June Brown

Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
February 16, 1927

Place of Birth:
Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK

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June Brown

Biography

June Muriel Brown OBE (16 February 1927 – 3 April 2022) was an English actress and author. She was best known for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1985–1993; 1997–2020). In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Soap Awards. Brown was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to drama and to charity, and promoted OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours. In 2009, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, making her the second performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work in a soap opera, after Jean Alexander. In February 2020 she announced that she had left EastEnders permanently, at the age of 93.

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Known For

Filmography

Year Movie Role
2022 The Lock-In Dot Cotton
2017 June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend Self
2016 Spidarlings June
2016 Ethel & Ernest Ernest's Step Mother (voice)
2006 The Children's Party at the Palace Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
2003 Margery and Gladys Gladys Gladwell
2003 EastEnders: Dot's Story Dot Cotton
2001 Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
2000 Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings Self
1999 Toby the Square Boy (voice)
1997 Bean Delilah
1997 Hospital! Cleaner
1995 Bed Spinster
1983 Misunderstood Mrs. Paley
1983 The Lady's Maid's Bell Emma Saxon
1982 Broken Glass Sheila Heron
1981 Sorry June
1980 Ladies Brenda
1980 Nijinsky Maria Stepanova
1979 Murder by Decree Annie Chapman
1979 The Shining Pyramid Mrs. Joy
1979 Instant Enlightenment Including VAT Melanie
1977 A Christmas Carol Mrs. Dilber
1974 South Riding Lily Sawdon
1974 Doctor Who: The Time Warrior Lady Eleanor
1973 Brenda Alice Penny
1973 Psychomania Mrs. Pettibone
1973 The 14 The Mother
1972 A Touch of the Victorians Ruth Preston
1972 Horatio Bottomley Eliza Bottomley
1972 Sitting Target Lomart's Neighbour
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday Woman Patient
1971 Straw Dogs Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
1971 Edna: The Inebriate Woman Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
1968 Inadmissible Evidence Watson's Guest
1966 Way Off Beat Mrs. Wentworth
1952 It Started in Paradise Announcer
Year TV Show Role
2010 Sunday Morning Live Self - Guest
2007 Would I Lie to You? Self
2007 The Graham Norton Show Self
2004 Who Do You Think You Are? Self
2004 Strictly Come Dancing Self
2003 The Terry and Gaby Show
2000 Gormenghast Nannie Slagg
1999 Loose Women Self
1997 Ain't Misbehavin' Mrs Jilkes
1994 Pirates
1991 Performance Spinster
1988 Behind The Screen
1988 Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out Self
1987 Going Live! Self
1985 EastEnders Dot Cotton
1985 Oliver Twist
1985 EastEnders Dorothy Branning
1984 Lace Mrs. Trelawney
1979 Minder Joany
1976 The Duchess of Duke Street
1975 Survivors Susan
1975 Angels
1975 The Sweeney Mrs. Martin
1972 The Edwardians Eliza Bottomley
1970 Doomwatch Kit Pedler
1970 Play for Today Hilda
1970 Play for Today Brenda
1970 Play for Today Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
1970 Play for Today June
1970 Play for Today Melanie
1963 Doctor Who Eleanor
1962 Z-Cars
1955 Dixon of Dock Green Brenda Walker
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