June Brown

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1927-02-16 (95 years old)

Deathday

2022-04-03

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...

Acting

1997

Bean

as Delilah

1971

Sunday Bloody Sunday

as Woman Patient

1968

Inadmissible Evidence

as Watson's Guest

1952

1977

A Christmas Carol

as Mrs. Dilber

1999

1966

Way Off Beat

as Mrs. Wentworth

1983

Misunderstood

as Mrs. Paley

2006

The Children's Party at the Palace

as Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)

1979

Murder by Decree

as Annie Chapman

1995

Bed

as Spinster

1979

1971

Straw Dogs

as Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)

1997

Hospital!

as Cleaner

1973

Brenda

as Alice Penny

1972

1983

2022

The Lock-In

as Dot Cotton

2016

1973

Psychomania

as Mrs. Pettibone

1971

Edna: The Inebriate Woman

as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital

2003

Margery and Gladys

as Gladys Gladwell

1974

South Riding

as Lily Sawdon

1973

The 14

as The Mother

1981

Sorry

as June

1972

Horatio Bottomley

as Eliza Bottomley

2003

1972

Sitting Target

as Lomart's Neighbour

2016

Ethel & Ernest

as Ernest's Step Mother (voice)

1974

1980

Ladies

as Brenda

1980

Nijinsky

as Maria Stepanova

1982

Broken Glass

as Sheila Heron

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