June Brown

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

70

Gender

Female

Birthday

1927-02-16

Deathday

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.

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Known For

Bean
6.5%

Bean

Jul 3, 1997

Straw Dogs
7.2%

Straw Dogs

Nov 25, 1971

Doctor Who
7.9%

Doctor Who

Nov 23, 1963

The Graham Norton Show
7.2%

The Graham Norton Show

Feb 22, 2007

EastEnders
4.1%

EastEnders

Feb 19, 1985

EastEnders
4.1%

EastEnders

Feb 19, 1985

Murder by Decree
6.4%

Murder by Decree

Feb 1, 1979

Sunday Bloody Sunday
6.6%

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Jul 1, 1971

Ethel & Ernest
7.4%

Ethel & Ernest

Oct 15, 2016

Would I Lie to You?
7.7%

Would I Lie to You?

Jun 16, 2007

Psychomania
5.6%

Psychomania

Mar 1, 1973

Strictly Come Dancing
5.9%

Strictly Come Dancing

May 15, 2004

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Acting

2022
The Lock-In as Dot Cotton
2017
June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend as Self
2016
Spidarlings as June
2016
Ethel & Ernest as Ernest's Step Mother (voice)
2010
Sunday Morning Live as Self - Guest
2007
Would I Lie to You? as Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006
The Children's Party at the Palace as Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
2004
Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2004
Strictly Come Dancing as Self
2003
Margery and Gladys as Gladys Gladwell
2003
The Terry and Gaby Show
2003
EastEnders: Dot's Story as Dot Cotton
2001
Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Self
2000
Gormenghast as Nannie Slagg
1999
Toby the Square Boy as (voice)
1999
Loose Women as Self
1997
Ain't Misbehavin' as Mrs Jilkes
1997
Bean as Delilah
1997
Hospital! as Cleaner
1995
Bed as Spinster
1994
Pirates
1991
Performance as Spinster
1988
Behind The Screen
1988
Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out as Self
1987
Going Live! as Self
1985
Oliver Twist
1985
EastEnders as Dot Cotton
1985
EastEnders as Dorothy Branning
1984
Lace as Mrs. Trelawney
1983
Misunderstood as Mrs. Paley
1983
The Lady's Maid's Bell as Emma Saxon
1982
Broken Glass as Sheila Heron
1981
Sorry as June
1980
Ladies as Brenda
1980
Nijinsky as Maria Stepanova
1979
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT as Melanie
1979
Minder as Joany
1979
The Shining Pyramid as Mrs. Joy
1979
Murder by Decree as Annie Chapman
1977
A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Dilber
1976
The Duchess of Duke Street
1975
Angels
1975
Survivors as Susan
1975
The Sweeney as Mrs. Martin
1974
South Riding as Lily Sawdon
1974
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior as Lady Eleanor
1973
Brenda as Alice Penny
1973
The 14 as The Mother
1973
Psychomania as Mrs. Pettibone
1972
Horatio Bottomley as Eliza Bottomley
1972
The Edwardians as Eliza Bottomley
1972
A Touch of the Victorians as Ruth Preston
1972
Sitting Target as Lomart's Neighbour
1971
Straw Dogs as Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
1971
Edna: The Inebriate Woman as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday as Woman Patient
1970
Play for Today as Hilda
1970
Play for Today as Brenda
1970
Play for Today as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
1970
Play for Today as June
1970
Play for Today as Melanie
1970
Doomwatch as Kit Pedler
1968
Inadmissible Evidence as Watson's Guest
1966
Way Off Beat as Mrs. Wentworth
1963
Doctor Who as Eleanor
1962
Z-Cars
1955
Dixon of Dock Green as Brenda Walker
1952
It Started in Paradise as Announcer
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