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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1927-02-16 (98 years old)

Place of Birth

Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK

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

Acting

2022

The Lock-In as Dot Cotton

2017

2016

Spidarlings as June
Ethel & Ernest as Ernest's Step Mother (voice)

2010

Sunday Morning Live as Self - Guest

2007

2006

The Children's Party at the Palace as Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)

2004

2003

2001

2000

1999

1997

Bean as Delilah
Hospital! as Cleaner
Ain't Misbehavin' as Mrs Jilkes

1995

Bed as Spinster

1994

1991

Performance as Spinster

1988

1987

Going Live! as Self

1985

EastEnders as Dot Cotton
EastEnders as Dorothy Branning

1984

Lace as Mrs. Trelawney

1983

Misunderstood as Mrs. Paley

1982

Broken Glass as Sheila Heron

1981

Sorry as June

1980

Ladies as Brenda
Nijinsky as Maria Stepanova

1979

1977

A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Dilber

1976

1975

Survivors as Susan
The Sweeney as Mrs. Martin

1974

South Riding as Lily Sawdon

1973

Brenda as Alice Penny
Psychomania as Mrs. Pettibone
The 14 as The Mother

1972

Horatio Bottomley as Eliza Bottomley
Sitting Target as Lomart's Neighbour
The Edwardians as Eliza Bottomley

1971

Sunday Bloody Sunday as Woman Patient
Straw Dogs as Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
Edna: The Inebriate Woman as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital

1970

Doomwatch as Kit Pedler
Play for Today as Brenda
Play for Today as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
Play for Today as Melanie

1968

Inadmissible Evidence as Watson's Guest

1966

Way Off Beat as Mrs. Wentworth

1963

Doctor Who as Eleanor

1962

1955

Dixon of Dock Green as Brenda Walker

1952