June Brown
Born: 1927-02-16 in Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK
Died: 2022-04-03
Known For: Acting
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
2022
- The Lock-In as Dot Cotton
2017
2016
- Ethel & Ernest as Ernest's Step Mother (voice)
- Spidarlings as June
2010
- Sunday Morning Live as Self - Guest
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Would I Lie to You? as Self
2006
- The Children's Party at the Palace as Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
2004
- Strictly Come Dancing as Self
- Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2003
- The Terry and Gaby Show
- Margery and Gladys as Gladys Gladwell
- EastEnders: Dot's Story as Dot Cotton
2001
- Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box as Self
2000
- Gormenghast as Nannie Slagg
- Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Self
1999
- Loose Women as Self
- Toby the Square Boy as (voice)
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
- Oliver Twist
1984
- Lace as Mrs. Trelawney
1983
- Misunderstood as Mrs. Paley
- The Lady's Maid's Bell as Emma Saxon
1982
- Broken Glass as Sheila Heron
1981
- Sorry as June
1979
- Minder as Joany
- Murder by Decree as Annie Chapman
- The Shining Pyramid as Mrs. Joy
- Instant Enlightenment Including VAT as Melanie
1977
- A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Dilber
1975
- The Sweeney as Mrs. Martin
- Angels
- Survivors as Susan
- Shadows as Mrs. Donn
1974
- South Riding as Lily Sawdon
- Churchill's People as Agnes Paston
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior as Lady Eleanor
1973
- The 14 as The Mother
- Psychomania as Mrs. Pettibone
- Brenda as Alice Penny
1972
- Sitting Target as Lomart's Neighbour
- Horatio Bottomley as Eliza Bottomley
- The Edwardians as Eliza Bottomley
- A Touch of the Victorians as Ruth Preston
1971
- Straw Dogs as Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday as Woman Patient
- Edna: The Inebriate Woman as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
1970
- Play for Today as Hilda
- Doomwatch as Kit Pedler
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
- It Started in Paradise as Announcer