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
- EastEnders: Dot's Story as Dot Cotton
- Margery and Gladys as Gladys Gladwell
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)
1998
- Verdict as Amelia Sayers
1997
- Bean as Delilah
- Ain't Misbehavin' as Mrs Jilkes
- Hospital! as Cleaner
1995
- Bed as Spinster
1994
1991
- Performance as Spinster
1988
1987
- Going Live! as Self
1985
- EastEnders as Dot Cotton
- Oliver Twist as Mrs Mann
1984
- Lace as Mrs. Trelawney
1983
- Shades of Darkness as Emma Saxon
- Now And Then as Aunt Sadie - Then
- Misunderstood as Mrs. Paley
- The Lady's Maid's Bell as Emma Saxon
1982
- Saturday Night Thriller as Sheila Heron
- Broken Glass as Sheila Heron
1981
- Sorry as June
1979
- Minder as Joany
- Murder by Decree as Annie Chapman
- Border Country as Mrs. Joy
- Instant Enlightenment Including VAT as Melanie
- The Shining Pyramid as Mrs. Joy
1977
- A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Dilber
1976
- The Duchess of Duke Street as Violet Leyton
- The Prince and the Pauper as Mother Canty
1975
- Angels
- The Sweeney as Mrs. Martin
- Survivors as Susan
- Shadows as Mrs. Donn
1974
- Churchill's People as Agnes Paston
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior as Lady Eleanor
- South Riding as Lily Sawdon
1973
- Oranges and Lemons as Alice Penny
- Psychomania as Mrs. Pettibone
- The 14 as The Mother
- Brenda as Alice Penny
1972
- New Scotland Yard as Jean Strode
- The Edwardians as Eliza Bottomley
- Sitting Target as Lomart's Neighbour
- Home and Away as Agnes
- A Touch of the Victorians as Ruth Preston
- Horatio Bottomley as Eliza Bottomley
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
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Dorothy
1968
- Inadmissible Evidence as Dinner Guest
1966
- Way Off Beat as Mrs. Wentworth
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Emma
1963
- Doctor Who as Eleanor
1962
1960
- Armchair Mystery Theatre as Linda
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Ruth Preston
1955
- Dixon of Dock Green as Brenda Walker
1952
- It Started in Paradise as Announcer