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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Bean
as Delilah
1997
It Started in Paradise
as Announcer
1952
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Woman Patient
1971
A Christmas Carol
as Mrs. Dilber
1977
Toby the Square Boy
as (voice)
1999
Way Off Beat
as Mrs. Wentworth
1966
Misunderstood
as Mrs. Paley
1983
The Children's Party at the Palace
as Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
2006
Murder by Decree
as Annie Chapman
1979
Bed
as Spinster
1995
The Shining Pyramid
as Mrs. Joy
1979
Straw Dogs
as Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
1971
Hospital!
as Cleaner
1997
Brenda
as Alice Penny
1973
A Touch of the Victorians
as Ruth Preston
1972
The Lady's Maid's Bell
as Emma Saxon
1983
The Lock-In
as Dot Cotton
2022
Spidarlings
as June
2016
Psychomania
as Mrs. Pettibone
1973
June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend
as Self
2017
