June Brown

from Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK

Artwork for BeanImage of 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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Timeline

2022Aged 95

  • Poster for The Lock-In

    Dot Cotton

2016Aged 89

  • Poster for Ethel & Ernest

    Ernest's Step Mother (voice)

  • Poster for Spidarlings

    June

2006Aged 79

  • Poster for The Children's Party at the Palace

    Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)

2003Aged 76

  • Poster for EastEnders: Dot's Story

    Dot Cotton

  • Poster for Margery and Gladys

    Gladys Gladwell

2001Aged 74

  • Poster for Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box

    Self

2000Aged 73

  • Poster for Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

    Self

1999Aged 72

1997Aged 70

  • Poster for Hospital!

    Cleaner

  • Poster for Bean

    Delilah

1995Aged 68

  • Poster for Bed

    Spinster

1983Aged 56

  • Poster for The Lady's Maid's Bell

    Emma Saxon

  • Poster for Misunderstood

    Mrs. Paley

1982Aged 55

  • Poster for Broken Glass

    Sheila Heron

1981Aged 54

  • Poster for Sorry

    June

1980Aged 53

  • Poster for Nijinsky

    Maria Stepanova

  • Poster for Ladies

    Brenda

1979Aged 52

  • Poster for Murder by Decree

    Annie Chapman

  • Poster for The Shining Pyramid

    Mrs. Joy

  • Poster for Instant Enlightenment Including VAT

    Melanie

1977Aged 50

  • Poster for A Christmas Carol

    Mrs. Dilber

1974Aged 47

  • Poster for Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

    Lady Eleanor

  • Poster for South Riding

    Lily Sawdon

1973Aged 46

  • Poster for Psychomania

    Mrs. Pettibone

  • Poster for The 14

    The Mother

  • Brenda

    Alice Penny

1972Aged 45

1971Aged 44

  • Poster for Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Woman Patient

  • Poster for Edna: The Inebriate Woman

    Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital

  • Poster for Straw Dogs

    Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)

1968Aged 41

  • Poster for Inadmissible Evidence

    Dinner Guest

1966Aged 39

  • Poster for Way Off Beat

    Mrs. Wentworth

1952Aged 25

  • Poster for It Started in Paradise

    Announcer