Colette Brown

{{Distinguish|Collette Brown (politician)}}{{Short description|English actress}}

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| birth_place = Clapham, South London, United Kingdom

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| occupation = actress

| years_active = 1991 - present

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Colette Brown is an English actress. Brown was born in Clapham, London, {{circa}} 1969. Her mother was a hairdresser and her father was an artist.{{cite news |title=Star Profile |newspaper=Lancashire Telegraph |date=5 February 2002 |page=15 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lancashire-telegraph-starprofile/174822623/ |via=Newspapers.com}} Brown worked as a receptionist for a doctor while studying for her A levels. She posed for the 1987 Pirelli calendar, photographed by Terence Donovan.{{cite news |title=Untitled |newspaper=Burton Mail |date=6 November 1986 |page=5 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/burton-mail-pir/174827066/ |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite book |last=Pye |first=Michael |title=The Pirelli Calendar Album |year=1988 |publisher=Pavilion Books |location=London |isbn=1-85145-281-8 |pages=189-193}}

In 1994, she was a presenter of the children's television series, Hangar 17.[https://web.archive.org/web/20110210141009/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/503974 BFI.org]{{cite news |title=Hanging Around |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 February 1994 |page=YT14 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/174822402/ |via=Newspapers.com}} She had a minor role in the film Blue Juice (1995).

Brown appeared in "Paying the Price", an episode of the ITV drama A Touch of Frost, in 1996, as police officer Claire Toms who works on a kidnapping case with Detective Inspector Frost.{{cite news |title=Pick of the day |newspaper=The Sunday Telegraph |date=7 January 1996 |page=R28 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-telegraph-potd/174823555/ |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |title=Weekend television highlights |newspaper=Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph |date=6 January 1996 |page=13 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/scunthorpe-evening-telegraph-wth/174823566/ |via=Newspapers.com}} The reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph wrote that Toms not being a recurring character was "a sad loss". Brown's other television credits include Casualty, Alice MacDonald in the "1987 episode of Our Friends in the North (1996),{{cite book |last=Eaton |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Eaton |series=BFI TV Classics |title=Our Friends in the North |year=2005 |publisher=British Film Institute |location=London |isbn=1844570924 |page=130 }} and the BBC One daytime soap Doctors and the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood.

Colette played Samantha Kennedy in the BBC medical drama Holby City, Michelle Connor in The Bill (S15 E140) and Della in Desmonds, S6 E10.

Brown was Kirsty Maine in the horror drama Ultraviolet (1998).{{cite book |title=TV Heaven |last=Sangster |first=Jim |year= 2005 |location= London |publisher=Collins |isbn= |page=797 }} She played Julie Hill in the first series of Sunburn (1999), a drama about a group of British holiday reps.{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Jeff |title=The Penguin TV Companion |date=2011 |publisher=Penguin |location=London |isbn=9780241952917 |page=908 |edition=4th}} She also had a role in the film Popcorn (2007).{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/02/26/popcorn_2007_review.shtml |last=Leyland|first=Matthew|title=Popcorn (2007)|work=BBC |date=23 February 2003 |accessdate=19 June 2025}}

Brown found out when she was 13 that she was dyslexic. She has a son with actor Gary Love.{{cite news |title=Profile: Colette Brown |newspaper=The Northern Echo |date=31 January 2002 |page=45 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-northern-echo-teesside-ed-profile/174822496/ |via=Newspapers.com}} As of 2002, she was a patron of the Prader–Willi syndrome Association, and appeared in a BBC Inside Out documentary discussing her sister who had the syndrome.{{cite news|title=Actress aids eating illness victims |website=BBC News |date=14 October 2002 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2314967.stm }}