On 31 January 2008, aged 80, Brown became the first and, to date, only soap actor to carry an entire episode single-handed.
Brown played the role from 1985 to 2020, with a break between 19. EastEnders īrown 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. Also in the play were former EastEnders stars Anita Dobson ( Angie Watts), Jill Halfpenny ( Kate Mitchell) and Jack Ryder ( Jamie Mitchell). In 2009, Brown played Jessie in the West End production of Calendar Girls at the Noël Coward Theatre. During her early career, she played the roles of Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth. Other plays include An Inspector Calls, The Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, and numerous pantomimes. She played Mrs Danvers in a touring production of Rebecca. She directed and starred in Pin Money by Malcolm Needs in London, and Double D by Matthew Westwood in Edinburgh and London. Theatre īrown was also active in British theatre. 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. 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.
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I'm looking forward to working with the professional dancers and the other contestants." Her dancing partner was Vincent Simone, with whom she danced the tango. I just hope I can remember the steps to the routines. 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 . In 2010, Brown took part in the annual Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing. 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.
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In 1984, she featured in the TV mini-series Lace which starred actress Phoebe Cates.
She also appeared as Tom Hedden's wife in Straw Dogs (1971), although her scenes were cut from the film. 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. She also played Nanny Slagg in the BBC's big-budget production of Gormenghast in 2000. 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).
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Career Film and television īrown had a long television career, with small roles in 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. 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. During the Second World War, she was evacuated to the Welsh village of Pontyates in Carmarthenshire. īrown 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. Through her grandmother, she was descended from the noted Jewish bare-knuckle boxer Isaac Bitton. Her ancestry included English, Irish and Scottish, and from her maternal grandmother, Sephardic Jewish (from Algeria, the Netherlands and Italy). In February 2020, at the age of 93, she announced that she had left EastEnders permanently.īrown was born on 16 February 1927 in Needham Market, Suffolk, one of five children of Louisa Ann (née Butler) and Henry William Melton Brown. 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. 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 to an OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours. In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2005 British Soap Awards. She was best known for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera EastEnders (1985–1993 1997–2020). June Muriel Brown OBE (16 February 1927 – 3 April 2022) was an English actress and author.
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