June Brown
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Bean
1997
as Delilah
Ladies
1980
as Brenda
Straw Dogs
1971
as Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
as Woman Patient
Murder by Decree
1979
as Annie Chapman
Bed
1995
as Spinster
Psychomania
1973
as Mrs. Pettibone
The Children's Party at the Palace
2006
as Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)
Sitting Target
1972
as Lomart's Neighbour
Ethel & Ernest
2016
as Ernest's Step Mother (voice)
A Christmas Carol
1977
as Mrs. Dilber
Nijinsky
1980
as Maria Stepanova
A Touch of the Victorians
1972
as Ruth Preston
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Self
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
1979
as Melanie
Misunderstood
1983
as Mrs. Paley
Hospital!
1997
as Cleaner
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
1974
as Lady Eleanor
EastEnders: Dot's Story
2003
as Dot Cotton
Inadmissible Evidence
1968
as Dinner Guest