Actor
June Brown
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Patrick Troughton
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Play for Today
John Levene
2 titles together
Doctor Who, Psychomania
Lalla Ward
2 titles together
Doctor Who, The Duchess of Duke Street
Zoë Wanamaker
2 titles together
Gormenghast, A Christmas Carol
Dennis Waterman
2 titles together
Minder, The Sweeney
George Layton
2 titles together
Minder, The Sweeney
Full filmography · 57
The Lock-In
as Dot Cotton
2022
Spidarlings
as June
2016
Ethel & Ernest
as Ernest's Step Mother (voice)
20167.5
The Children's Party at the Palace
as Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
2006
Margery and Gladys
as Gladys Gladwell
2003
EastEnders: Dot's Story
as Dot Cotton
2003
Bean
as Delilah
19976.5
Hospital!
as Cleaner
1997
Bed
as Spinster
1995
Misunderstood
as Mrs. Paley
1983
The Lady's Maid's Bell
as Emma Saxon
1983
Broken Glass
as Sheila Heron
1982