June Brown
{{Short description|English actress (1927–2022)}}
{{About|the English actress|the Australian actress |June Browne}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}
| image = June Brown (2009).jpg
| caption = Brown in 2009
| birth_name = June Muriel Brown
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|2|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Needham Market, Suffolk, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|4|3|1927|2|16|df=yes}}
| death_place = Surrey, England
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| known_for = Role of Dot Cotton in EastEnders
| occupation = {{hlist|Actress|author}}
| years_active = 1952–2021
| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|John Garley|1950|1957|reason=died}}|{{marriage|Robert Arnold|1958|2003|reason=died}}}}
| children = 6
| module = {{Infobox military person | embed=yes
| allegiance = United Kingdom
| branch = Royal Navy
| serviceyears = 1944–1945
| unit = Women's Royal Naval Service
| battles = Second World War
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June Muriel Brown (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 2005 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,{{Cite web|last=TV|first=What's on|date=4 November 2008|title=EastEnders' June Brown honoured with MBE {{!}} News {{!}} EastEnders|url=https://www.whatsontv.co.uk/eastenders-main/eastenders-news/eastenders-june-brown-honoured-with-mbe-240734/|access-date=18 October 2020|website=What's on TV|language=en}} and promoted to an 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, at the age of 93, she announced that she had left EastEnders permanently.
Early life
Brown was born on 16 February 1927 in Needham Market, Suffolk,{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7452896.stm|title=Profile: June Brown|publisher=BBC|access-date=4 June 2014}} one of five children of Louisa Ann (née Butler) and Henry William Melton Brown.{{cite web|url=https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/blog/genes-reunited-blog/archive/2011/8/2/june-brown-family-history|title=June Brown – Family History – Genes Reunited Blog – Genes Reunited|website=genesreunited.co.uk|access-date=6 April 2019}} Her ancestry included English, Irish and Scottish, and from her maternal grandmother, Sephardic Jewish (from Algeria, the Netherlands and Italy).{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013c44k|title=BBC One – Who Do You Think You Are?, Series 8, June Brown|publisher=BBC}}{{cite web|url=http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/soaps/eastenders/interviews/june-brown-im-like-a-mongrel/13521|title=June Brown: 'I'm like a mongrel!'|work=What's on TV|date=August 2011|access-date=30 September 2011|archive-date=13 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213125917/http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/soaps/eastenders/interviews/june-brown-im-like-a-mongrel/13521|url-status=dead}} Through her grandmother, she was descended from the noted Jewish bare-knuckle boxer Isaac Bitton.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-tv-who-do-you-think-you-arebbc1br-village-sosbbc1-2335595.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=11 August 2011|title=Last Night's TV: Who Do You Think You Are?/BBC1 Village SOS/BBC1|first=Amol|last=Rajan|location=London}}
Brown was educated at St John's Church of England School in Ipswich and then won a scholarship to Ipswich High School, where she passed the school certificate examinations.{{Cite web|date=11 February 2010|title=Passed/Failed: An education in the life of June Brown, actress|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/passed-failed-an-education-in-the-life-of-june-brown-actress-1895198.html|access-date=10 April 2022|website=The Independent|language=en}} During the Second World War, she was evacuated to the Welsh village of Pontyates in Carmarthenshire. During the later years of the war, she served in the Wrens and was classically trained at the Old Vic Theatre School in Lambeth, London.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/02/29/dot-stands-trial-june-browns-best-moments/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/02/29/dot-stands-trial-june-browns-best-moments/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Since year Dot: EastEnders' June Brown's best moments|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=29 February 2016|access-date=8 December 2017}}{{cbignore}}
Career
= Film and television =
Brown had a long television career, appearing in three episodes of Coronation Street as Mrs Parsons (1970–71); the Play for Today, Edna, the Inebriate Woman as Clara (1971); the Doctor Who story The Time Warrior as Lady Eleanor (1973–74); the nursing soap Angels; the history-of-Britain Churchill's People; long-running comedy drama Minder; the police drama soap The Bill; and cult sci-fi series Survivors.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/june-brown/credits/3000060901/|title=June Brown|website=TV Guide}} She had a bigger part as Mrs Leyton in the costume drama The Duchess of Duke Street (1976), and played Mrs Mann in Oliver Twist (1985).{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/june-brown-bbc-surrey-obe-mbe-b2050470.html |title=EastEnders stalwart June Brown, best known as Dot Cotton, dies aged 95 |first=Laura |last=Harding |work=The Independent |date=4 April 2022 |access-date=4 April 2022}}
She also played Nanny Slagg in the BBC's big-budget production of Gormenghast in 2000.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/gormenghast/characters/nannie.html|title=Gormenghast | Nannie Slagg|publisher=PBS}} She was cast in small roles in several movies, appearing as the grieving mother of an undead biker in British horror flick Psychomania (1971), as well as Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Sitting Target (1972), The 14 (1973), Murder by Decree (1979), Nijinsky (1980), The Mambo Kings (1992) and the Mr. Bean movie spin-off Bean (1997). She also appeared as Tom Hedden's wife in Straw Dogs (1971), although her scenes were cut from the film. In 1984, she featured in the TV mini-series Lace which starred actress Phoebe Cates.{{Cite web|url=https://nostalgiacentral.com/television/tv-by-decade/tv-shows-1980s/lace/|title=Lace – Nostalgia Central|date=14 January 2014|website=nostalgiacentral.com}}
In 2006, Brown appeared as Aunt Spiker at the Children's Party at the Palace, an all-star event to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday. In 2010, Brown took part in the annual Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing. Brown said "I'm terrified and apprehensive about what I've let myself in for, I must be barmy and I'm not sure what's come over me ... I just hope I can remember the steps to the routines. I'm looking forward to working with the professional dancers and the other contestants."{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/11_november/18/strictly.shtml|title=BBC announces Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special|date=18 November 2010|publisher=BBC|access-date=19 November 2010}} Her dancing partner was Vincent Simone, with whom she danced the tango.
In August 2011 she was featured in the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, and was the oldest person to have appeared on the programme.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013c44k|title = BBC One – Who do You Think You Are?, Series 8, June Brown}}
In July 2012, Brown hosted a documentary for the BBC called Respect Your Elders, which looked at society's treatment and attitudes towards the elderly.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00tt2cx |title=BBC One – June Brown: Respect Your Elders |publisher=BBC |date=31 August 2012 |access-date=10 January 2014}}
= Theatre =
Brown was also active in British theatre. She directed and starred in Pin Money by Malcolm Needs in London, and Double D by Matthew Westwood in Edinburgh and London. She played Mrs Danvers in a touring production of Rebecca. Other plays include An Inspector Calls, The Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, and numerous pantomimes. During her early career, she played the roles of Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth.
In 2009, Brown played Jessie in the West End production of Calendar Girls at the Noël Coward Theatre. Also in the play were former EastEnders stars Anita Dobson (Angie Watts), Jill Halfpenny (Kate Mitchell) and Jack Ryder (Jamie Mitchell).{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a157520/june-brown-to-strip-for-calendar-girls/|title=June Brown to strip for 'Calendar Girls'|first=Kris|last=Green|website=Digital Spy|date=29 May 2009}}
= ''EastEnders'' =
Brown was recommended to producers for the role of Dot Cotton in EastEnders by one of its original cast members, Leslie Grantham, who played Den Watts. Brown played the role from 1985 to 2020, with a break between 1993 and 1997.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/june-brown-dead-dies-eastenders-dot-cotton_uk_624ae612e4b068157f7a0d90|title=EastEnders Legend June Brown Dies, Aged 95|date=4 April 2022|website=HuffPost}}
On 31 January 2008, aged 80, Brown became the first and, to date, only soap actor to carry an entire episode single-handed. The episode featured a monologue looking back over her character's life, dictated to a cassette machine for her husband Jim to listen to in hospital following a stroke. The fact that co-star and close friend John Bardon (who played Jim) was recovering from a stroke in real life added extra pathos to the episode.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/june-brown-all-alone-in-dots-kitchen-774546.html | work=The Independent | location=London | title=June Brown: All alone in Dot's kitchen | first=Cole | last=Moreton | date=27 January 2008 | access-date=7 May 2010}} In 2009, Brown was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.{{cite web|url=http://bafta.org/awards/television/tv-noms-2009,709,BA.html |title=Television Awards Nominations 2009 |publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts |access-date=24 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327032142/http://www.bafta.org/awards/television/tv-noms-2009%2C709%2CBA.html |archive-date=27 March 2009 }} Brown's nomination came as a result of her "single-hander" episode of EastEnders, the director of which she praised.{{cite news|author=Fletcher, Alex|date=24 March 2009|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a150613/santer-hails-remarkable-june-brown.html|title= Santer hails 'remarkable' June Brown |work= Digital Spy|access-date= 24 March 2009}}
On 30 April 2012, it was announced that Brown was to take a six-month break from EastEnders and planned to write her autobiography during her time off.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2/eastenders/news/a379044/eastenders-june-brown-taking-six-month-break.html |title='EastEnders' June Brown taking six-month break|work=Digital Spy |date=30 April 2012 |access-date=10 January 2014}} In October 2012, it was announced she had returned to filming, and she appeared on screen again from January 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2/eastenders/news/a432116/eastenders-dot-branning-makes-return-in-january.html |title='EastEnders': Dot Branning makes return in January – EastEnders News – Soaps |work=Digital Spy |date=20 October 2012 |access-date=10 January 2014}} Her autobiography, Before the Year Dot, was published in 2013.{{Cite book|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Before-the-Year-Dot/June-Brown/9781471101823|title=Before the Year Dot|date=24 October 2013|isbn=978-1-4711-0182-3|via=simonandschuster.com|last1=Brown|first1=June}}
In May 2015, Brown revealed that her eyesight was failing due to macular degeneration.{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/eastenders-legend-june-brown-losing-5713596 | title=EastEnders legend June Brown is losing her sight but still has to work due to financial crisis | work=Daily Mirror | date=17 May 2015 | access-date=19 May 2015 | author=White, Stephen}} Later, in 2016, a storyline for Dot in which her eyesight was deteriorating was introduced. Speaking about the condition in April 2019, Brown said that it had worsened since undergoing surgery in 2017, and that she no longer went out socially because of her eyesight: "I never go to soap awards or suchlike now. I don't recognise people that I know and they would think I was snubbing them."{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47837492|title=EastEnders' June Brown losing her sight|date=6 April 2019|access-date=6 April 2019|work=BBC News}}
On 20 February 2020, Brown announced that she had left EastEnders.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51582573|title=Dot Cotton: Actress June Brown says she has left EastEnders 'for good'|work=BBC News|date=21 February 2020|access-date=21 February 2020}}{{Cite news |last=Badshah |first=Nadeem |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/21/june-brown-says-shes-played-eastenders-dot-cotton-for-last-time |title=June Brown says she's played EastEnders' Dot Cotton for last time |date=21 February 2020 |work=The Guardian |access-date=21 February 2020}}
Personal life
In 1950, Brown met and married actor John Garley; he suffered from depression and died by suicide in 1957. In 1958, she married actor Robert Arnold.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0036615|title=Robert Arnold|publisher=IMDb}} They had six children in seven years, one of whom died in infancy.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08dmr01|title=BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, June Brown|date=17 February 2017|publisher=BBC iPlayer|access-date=14 March 2017}} The couple were together for 45 years, until he died in 2003 of Lewy-body dementia. Thereafter, she lived alone in Surrey.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/june-brown-all-alone-in-dots-kitchen-774546.html|title=June Brown: All alone in Dot's kitchen|author=Cole Moreton|date=27 January 2008|work=The Independent}}
Brown was a supporter of the Conservative Party and told The Guardian in 2009, "I wouldn't vote Labour, dear, if you paid me. I vote Conservative."{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/apr/20/interview-june-brown-dot-cotton-eastenders|title=Decca Aitkenhead meets June Brown, EastEnders' Dot Cotton|work=The Guardian|access-date=23 May 2009|last=Aitkenhead|first=Decca|date=20 April 2009|location=London}} Like her EastEnders character, she was a Christian.{{Cite web|url=https://www.christiantoday.com/article/eastenders-june-brown-character-dot-christian/38337.htm|title=Eastenders star June Brown says she made the character 'Dot' more Christian|first=Cath Martin 23 June 2014 | 1:47|last=PM|website=christiantoday.com}}
Brown was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7453476.stm|title=Des and Dot lead showbiz honours|publisher=BBC|access-date=2 February 2017}} and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours, both for services to drama and to charity.{{London Gazette|issue=63571|supp=y|page=N11|date=1 January 2022}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59809682|title=New Year Honours: Whitty, Van-Tam and Blair knighted, Lumley and Redgrave made dames|work=BBC News|date=31 December 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59780013 |title=New Year Honours 2022: Lumley and Redgrave become dames |date=31 December 2021|accessdate=3 January 2022|work=BBC News}}
Death
Brown died on 3 April 2022, aged 95.{{Cite news |date=4 April 2022 |title=EastEnders veteran June Brown dies at 95 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60984231 |access-date=4 April 2022}} On the announcement of her death, the following day, EastEnders paid tribute to Brown and posted condolences from several of her former co-stars on social media, including Gillian Taylforth,{{Cite news |last=Davies |first=Hannah J. |date=2022-04-04 |title=June Brown, EastEnders’ Dot Cotton, dies aged 95 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/04/june-brown-who-played-dot-cotton-in-eastenders-death |access-date=2024-12-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} Natalie Cassidy,{{Cite news |last=Muir |first=Ellie |date=February 28, 2024 |title=EastEnders star Natalie Cassidy says she faced ‘difficult time’ after June Brown’s death |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/natalie-cassidy-eastenders-june-brown-b2503948.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240725125458/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/natalie-cassidy-eastenders-june-brown-b2503948.html |archive-date=July 25, 2024 |access-date=December 14, 2024 |work=The Independent}} Lacey Turner,{{Cite news |last=Iorizzo |first=Ellie |date=April 5, 2022 |title=EastEnders star Lacey Turner remembers June Brown as being ‘young at heart’ |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/lacey-turner-june-brown-turner-bbc-adam-woodyatt-b2051172.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406095046/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/lacey-turner-june-brown-turner-bbc-adam-woodyatt-b2051172.html |archive-date=April 6, 2022 |access-date=December 14, 2024 |work=The Independent}} Diane Parish,{{Cite web |last=Bagwell |first=Matt |date=2022-04-04 |title=June Brown Remembered As Stars Pay Tribute To Dot Cotton Actor Following Her Death |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/june-brown-remembered-stars-pay-133540826.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214081019/https://ca.news.yahoo.com/june-brown-remembered-stars-pay-133540826.html |archive-date=December 14, 2024 |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Yahoo! News |language=en-CA}} Emma Barton, Shona McGarty,{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=George |date=2024-11-28 |title=EastEnders' Shona McGarty pays tribute to show legend |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/a63044909/eastenders-shona-mcgarty-tribute-june-brown/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241209224305/https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/a63044909/eastenders-shona-mcgarty-tribute-june-brown/ |archive-date=December 9, 2024 |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB}} Adam Woodyatt and Letitia Dean. The episode broadcast that evening was dedicated to her memory. Following this, the documentary June Brown: A Walford Legend, which originally aired in 2017, to celebrate Brown's 90th birthday, and her 2011 episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, were aired on BBC One, in a change to the original schedule.{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/june-brown-dead-dot-cotton-eastenders-tributes-b992359.html?|title=June Brown: EastEnders star Adam Woodyatt and Danny Dyer lead tributes to actress|website=Evening Standard|date=4 April 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/eastenders/june-brown-tribute-documentary-eastenders/|title=June Brown documentary to air after EastEnders|date=4 April 2022|website=Radio Times|accessdate=4 April 2022}}
Filmography
= Film =
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) as Woman Patient{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmoria.co.uk/movie-list/june-brown-castid16481|title=June Brown, filmography|website=Filmoria|accessdate=4 April 2022}}
- Straw Dogs (1971) as Mrs Hedden (scenes deleted)
- Sitting Target (1972) as Lomart's neighbour
- Psychomania (1972) as Mrs Pettibone
- The 14 (1973) as The Mother
- Murder by Decree (1979) as Annie Chapman
- Nijinsky (1980) as Maria Stepanova
- Misunderstood (1984) as Mrs Paley
- The Mambo Kings (1992) as Portly Woman
- Bean (1997) as Delilah
- Margery & Gladys (2003) as Gladys Gladwell
- Spidarlings (2016) as June{{cite web| url=https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/06/tromas-lgbt-horror-musical-spidarlings-to-premiere-in-july/| title=Troma's LGBT horror musical Spidarlings to premiere in July| date=14 June 2017}}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Ethel & Ernest (2016) as Ernest's stepmother
= Television =
- The Rough and Ready Lot (1959) as Chica{{Citation | author=| date =18 September 1959| periodical = Radio Times| title= The Rough and Ready Lot| issue= 1871| location= London| page= 19|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0a2e3ad932344cf29d24ec75be329a1d| access-date= 6 April 2016 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2e769be|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604225557/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2e769be|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 June 2016| title= June Brown| website= British Film Institute| access-date= 6 April 2019 }}
- Coronation Street (1970–1971) as Mrs. Parsons (3 episodes)
- Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971) as Clara
- Doctor Who (The Time Warrior serial) (1973–1974) as Lady Eleanor (4 episodes)
- South Riding (1974) as Lily Sawdon (4 episodes)
- Special Branch (1974) as Chrissy (1 episode)
- Churchill's People (1975) as Agnes Paston (1 episode)
- The Sweeney (1975) as Mrs Martin (1 episode)
- The Prince and the Pauper (1976) as Mother Canty (5 episodes)
- The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977) as Mrs Violet Leyton (6 episodes)
- Survivors (1977) as Susan (1 episode)
- God's Wonderful Railway (1980) as Elsie Grant (3 episodes)
- Instant Enlightenment Including VAT (1980) as Melanie
- Lace (1984) as Mrs Trelawney (2 episodes)
- Minder (1984) as Joany (1 episode)
- The Bill (1984) as Mrs Doleman (1 episode)
- Oliver Twist (1985) as Mrs Mann (1 episode)
- EastEnders (1985–1993, 1997–2020) as Dot Cotton (2,884 episodes)
- Gormenghast (2000) as Nannie Slagg (2 episodes)
- Heading Out (2013) as Sozzie (1 episode)
- Would I Lie to You? (game show) (2014) as herself (1 episode)
- June Brown at 90: A Walford Legend (2017), TV special{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/eastenders/entries/6e237093-6f82-4127-a08d-546015cc2ca2 | title=June Brown at 90 – a Walford Legend| date=30 January 2017}}
- 100 Years Younger in 21 Days (2018) as herself (documentary series)
- Hard to Please OAPS (2019) as herself (documentary series, 6 episodes)
= Radio =
- Missing You (2021) as Margey (1 episode){{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55437997.amp|title = Ex-EastEnder June Brown to star in drama podcast|date = 24 December 2020}}
Theatre
{{div col}}
- The Rough and Ready Lot{{cite book | author-last= Owen | author-first= Alun | others= Cover design by Elisabeth Frink | title= The Rough and Ready Lot: A play in Three Acts |publisher= Encore Publishing Co. Ltd. |location= London| date=1960| edition= First| page=4 }}
- Magnolia Street Story
- An Inspector Calls
- Nightshade
- The Lion in Winter
- Hedda Gabler
- A Day Forever
- Rebecca
- Laura
- Absolute Hell
- Macbeth
- Calendar Girls
{{div col end}}
= Directed =
Bibliography
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Award ! Category ! Work ! Character |
|---|
| 1999
| rowspan="2" |National Television Awards | rowspan="2" |Most Popular Actress | rowspan="30" |EastEnders | rowspan="30" |Dot Cotton | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="5"|2000
| {{nom}} |
| rowspan="3" |British Soap Awards
| {{nom}} |
| Best Single Episode – Ethel's Emotional Death
| {{nom}} |
| Best On-Screen Partnership – shared with Gretchen Franklin
| {{nom}} |
| TV Quick and TV Choice Awards
| Best Actress | {{Won}} |
| rowspan="8"|2001
| National Television Awards | Most Popular Actress | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="4" |British Soap Awards
| Best Actress | {{nom}} |
| Best Dramatic Performance
| {{nom}} |
| Hero of the Year
| {{nom}} |
| Best Storyline – Dot's Schizophrenia Plot
| {{nom}} |
| rowspan="2" |Inside Soap Awards
| Best Actress | {{Won}} |
| Best Storyline – Dot's Schizophrenia Plot
| {{Won}} |
| TV Quick and TV Choice Awards
| Best Actress | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="3"|2002
| National Television Awards | Most Popular Actress | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="3" |British Soap Awards
| Best Actress | {{nom}} |
| Best On-Screen Partnership – shared with John Bardon
| {{Won}} |
| 2004
| Best Actress | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="8"|2005
| National Television Awards | Most Popular Actress | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="3" |British Soap Awards
| Best Actress | {{nom}} |
| Best On-Screen Partnership – shared with John Bardon
| {{Won}} |
| Lifetime Achievement Award
| {{Won}} |
| rowspan="2" |Inside Soap Awards
| Best Actress | {{Won}} |
| Best Couple – shared with John Bardon
| {{Won}} |
| rowspan="2" |TV Quick and TV Choice Awards
| Best Actress | {{nom}} |
| Best Soap Storyline – Dot's Cancer
| {{nom}} |
| 2007
| National Television Awards | Most Popular Actress | {{nom}} |
| 2008
| Best TV Personality | {{nom}} |
| rowspan="2"|2009
| National Television Awards | Serial Drama Performance | {{nom}} |
| BAFTA Television Awards
| Actress in a Leading Role | {{nom}} |
References
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External links
{{Commons category|June Brown}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160604225557/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba2e769be June Brown] at the British Film Institute
- {{IMDb name|113942|June Brown}}
- [http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays_all?forename=June&surname=BROWN&job=Actor&pid=994&image_view=Yesamp;x=19amp;y=17 List of performances] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407054016/http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/search/people_sub_plays_all?forename=June&surname=BROWN&job=Actor&pid=994&image_view=Yesamp;x=19amp;y=17 |date=7 April 2017 }} (Theatre Collection, University of Bristol)
- {{discogs artist|June Brown (4)}}
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