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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

70

Gender

Female

Birthday

1927-02-16

Day of Death

2022-04-03 (95 years old)

Place of Birth

Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK

Also Known As

六月布朗

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

Known For

Acting

Bean

1997

Bean

as

Delilah

A Christmas Carol

1977

A Christmas Carol

as

Mrs. Dilber

Inadmissible Evidence

1968

Inadmissible Evidence

as

Watson's Guest

Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Sunday Bloody Sunday

as

Woman Patient

It Started in Paradise

1952

It Started in Paradise

as

Announcer

Toby the Square Boy

1999

Toby the Square Boy

as

(voice)

Way Off Beat

1966

Way Off Beat

as

Mrs. Wentworth

Misunderstood

1983

Misunderstood

as

Mrs. Paley

The Children's Party at the Palace

2006

The Children's Party at the Palace

as

Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)

Murder by Decree

1979

Murder by Decree

as

Annie Chapman

Bed

1995

Bed

as

Spinster

The Shining Pyramid

1979

The Shining Pyramid

as

Mrs. Joy

Straw Dogs

1971

Straw Dogs

as

Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)

Hospital!

1997

Hospital!

as

Cleaner

Brenda

1973

Brenda

as

Alice Penny

A Touch of the Victorians

1972

A Touch of the Victorians

as

Ruth Preston

The Lady's Maid's Bell

1983

The Lady's Maid's Bell

as

Emma Saxon

The Lock-In

2022

The Lock-In

as

Dot Cotton

Spidarlings

2016

Spidarlings

as

June

Psychomania

1973

Psychomania

as

Mrs. Pettibone

Margery and Gladys

2003

Margery and Gladys

as

Gladys Gladwell

The 14

1973

The 14

as

The Mother

Edna: The Inebriate Woman

1971

Edna: The Inebriate Woman

as

Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital

South Riding

1974

South Riding

as

Lily Sawdon

Sorry

1981

Sorry

as

June

Horatio Bottomley

1972

Horatio Bottomley

as

Eliza Bottomley

EastEnders: Dot's Story

2003

EastEnders: Dot's Story

as

Dot Cotton

Sitting Target

1972

Sitting Target

as

Lomart's Neighbour

Ethel & Ernest

2016

Ethel & Ernest

as

Ernest's Step Mother (voice)

Ladies

1980

Ladies

as

Brenda

Nijinsky

1980

Nijinsky

as

Maria Stepanova

Broken Glass

1982

Broken Glass

as

Sheila Heron

EastEnders

EastEnders

as

Dot Cotton

Survivors

Survivors

as

Susan

Doomwatch

Doomwatch

as

Kit Pedler

Gormenghast

Gormenghast

as

Nannie Slagg

Performance

Performance

as

Spinster

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

as

Eleanor

Minder

Minder

as

Joany

Sunday Morning Live

Sunday Morning Live

as

Self - Guest

EastEnders

EastEnders

as

Dorothy Branning

Ain't Misbehavin'

Ain't Misbehavin'

as

Mrs Jilkes

Lace

Lace

as

Mrs. Trelawney

Play for Today

Play for Today

as

Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital

Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green

as

Brenda Walker

The Sweeney

The Sweeney

as

Mrs. Martin

The Edwardians

The Edwardians

as

Eliza Bottomley

Production

Crew

Directing