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June Brown

Acting · Born February 16, 1927 · Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK

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.

Movies with June Brown

• Bean (1997) — Delilah
• Straw Dogs (1971) — Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
• Murder by Decree (1979) — Annie Chapman
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) — Woman Patient
• Ethel & Ernest (2016) — Ernest's Step Mother (voice)
• Sitting Target (1972) — Lomart's Neighbour
• The Children's Party at the Palace (2006) — Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
• EastEnders: Dot's Story (2003) — Dot Cotton
• Nijinsky (1980) — Maria Stepanova
• Bed (1995) — Spinster
• Instant Enlightenment Including VAT (1979) — Melanie
• Edna: The Inebriate Woman (1971) — Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital

TV shows with June Brown

• EastEnders (1985) — Dot Cotton
• The Duchess of Duke Street (1976) — Violet Leyton
• Pirates (1994)