June Brown

Born: 1927-02-16, Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK

Died: 2022-04-03

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article June Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• EastEnders (1985)
• The Wednesday Play (1964)
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969)
• Z-Cars (1962)
• Gormenghast (2000)
• The Duchess of Duke Street (1976)
• Churchill's People (1974)
• Bean (1997)
• Straw Dogs (1971)
• Ethel & Ernest (2016)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
• Murder by Decree (1979)
• Bed (1995)
• It Started in Paradise (1952)
• Sitting Target (1972)
• Inadmissible Evidence (1968)
• EastEnders: Dot's Story (2003)
• Hospital! (1997)
• The Children's Party at the Palace (2006)
• The Lock-In (2022)
• Psychomania (1973)
• The 14 (1973)
• Margery and Gladys (2003)
• Nijinsky (1980)
• Broken Glass (1982)
• The Shining Pyramid (1979)
• Edna: The Inebriate Woman (1971)
• The Lady's Maid's Bell (1983)
• Doctor Who: The Time Warrior (1974)
• Horatio Bottomley (1972)