June Brown
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1927-02-16
Day of Death
2022-04-03 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK
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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Acting
(2022)
The Lock-In
as Dot Cotton
(2017)
(2016)
Ethel & Ernest
as Ernest's Step Mother (voice)
(2016)
Spidarlings
as June
(2006)
The Children's Party at the Palace
as Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
(2003)
Margery and Gladys
as Gladys Gladwell
(2003)
EastEnders: Dot's Story
as Dot Cotton
(2001)
(2000)
(1999)
Toby the Square Boy
as (voice)
(1997)
Bean
as Delilah
(1997)
Hospital!
as Cleaner
(1995)
Bed
as Spinster
(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)
Nijinsky
as Maria Stepanova
(1980)
Ladies
as Brenda
(1979)
Murder by Decree
as Annie Chapman
(1979)
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
as Melanie
(1979)
The Shining Pyramid
as Mrs. Joy
(1977)
A Christmas Carol
as Mrs. Dilber
(1974)
South Riding
as Lily Sawdon
(1974)
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
as Lady Eleanor
(1973)
Psychomania
as Mrs. Pettibone
(1973)
The 14
as The Mother
(1973)
Brenda
as Alice Penny
(1972)
Sitting Target
as Lomart's Neighbour
(1972)
A Touch of the Victorians
as Ruth Preston
(1972)
Horatio Bottomley
as Eliza Bottomley
(1971)
Straw Dogs
as Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
(1971)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Woman Patient
(1971)
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
as Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital
(1968)
Inadmissible Evidence
as Watson's Guest
(1966)
Way Off Beat
as Mrs. Wentworth
(1952)
It Started in Paradise
as Announcer