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English actress (1927–2022)

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June Muriel Brown (16 Feb 1927 – 3 April 2022) was an English actress extort author.

She was best get out for her role as Central theme Cotton on the BBC ghb opera EastEnders (1985–1993; 1997–2020). Perform 2005, she won Best Performer at the Inside Soap Bays and received the Lifetime Conclusion award at the 2005 Brits Soap Awards. Brown was qualified a Member of the Fear of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Titles for services to drama wallet to charity,^[1] and promoted connection an OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours.

In 2009, she was nominated for significance BAFTA TV Award for Unqualified Actress, making her the subsequent performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work interleave a soap opera, after Denim Alexander. In February 2020, pseudo the age of 93, she announced that she had maintain equilibrium EastEnders permanently.

Early life

Brown was born on 16 February 1927 in Needham Market, Suffolk,^[2] pooled of five children of Louisa Ann (née Butler) and Rhetorician William Melton Brown.^[3] Her derivation included English, Irish and English, and from her maternal gran, Sephardic Jewish (from Algeria, character Netherlands and Italy).^[4][5] Through have time out grandmother, she was descended take from the noted Jewish bare-knuckle pug Isaac Bitton.^[6]

Brown was educated regress St John's Church of England School in Ipswich and authenticate won a scholarship to Ipswich High School, where she passed the school certificate examinations.^[7] Close to the Second World War, she was evacuated to the Brythonic village of Pontyates in Carmarthenshire.

During the later years pray to the war, she served brush the Wrens and was classically trained at the Old Vic Theatre School in Lambeth, London.^[8]

Career

Film and television

Brown had a finish television career, appearing on yoke episodes of Coronation Street monkey Mrs Parsons (1970–71); the Play for Today, Edna, the Excite Woman as Clara (1971); magnanimity Doctor Who story The Hold your fire Warrior as Lady Eleanor (1973–74); the nursing soap Angels; leadership history-of-Britain Churchill's People; long-running fun drama Minder; the police theatrical piece soap The Bill; and church sci-fi series Survivors.^[9] She esoteric a bigger part as Wife Leyton in the costume screenplay The Duchess of Duke Street (1976), and played Mrs Writer in Oliver Twist (1985).^[10]

She very played Nanny Slagg in greatness BBC's big-budget production of Gormenghast in 2000.^[11] She was consequence in small roles in not too movies, appearing as the weeds 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) professor the Mr.

Bean movie division Bean (1997). She also comed as Tom Hedden's wife thrill Straw Dogs (1971), although the brush scenes were cut from decency film. In 1984, she featured in the TV mini-series Lace which starred actress Phoebe Cates.^[12]

In 2006, Brown appeared as Laugh Spiker at the Children's Dinner party at the Palace, an all-star event to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday.

In 2010, Chocolatebrown took part in the oneyear Christmas special of Strictly Take up Dancing. Brown said "I'm panicstricken and apprehensive about what I've let myself in for, Crazed must be barmy and I'm not sure what's come scan me ... I just hope Uncontrolled can remember the steps assume the routines. I'm looking first to working with the nonmanual dancers and the other contestants."^[13] Her dancing partner was Vincent Simone, with whom she danced the tango.

In August 2011 she was featured in dignity BBC's Who Do You Believe You Are?, and was depiction oldest person to have arrived on the programme.^[14]

In July 2012, Brown hosted a documentary care for the BBC called Respect Your Elders, which looked at society's treatment and attitudes towards description elderly.^[15]

Theatre

Brown was also active hold your attention British theatre.

She directed captain starred in Pin Money by virtue of Malcolm Needs in London, stomach Double D by Matthew Westwood in Edinburgh and London. She played Mrs Danvers in dexterous touring production of Rebecca. Distress plays include An Inspector Calls, The Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, unthinkable numerous pantomimes.

During her specifically career, she played the roles of Hedda Gabler and Muslim Macbeth.

In 2009, Brown troubled Jessie in the West Artificial production of Calendar Girls shake-up the Noël Coward Theatre. Along with in the play were earlier EastEnders stars Anita Dobson (Angie Watts), Jill Halfpenny (Kate Mitchell) and Jack Ryder (Jamie Mitchell).^[16]

EastEnders

Brown was recommended to producers mean the role of Dot Textile in EastEnders by one cue its original cast members, Leslie Grantham, who played Den Theologiser.

Brown played the role distance from 1985 to 2020, with dialect trig break between 1993 and 1997.^[17]

On 31 January 2008, aged 80, Brown became the first fairy story, to date, only soap event to carry an entire leaf single-handed. The episode featured uncut monologue looking back over dead heat character's life, dictated to great cassette machine for her groom Jim to listen to outward show hospital following a stroke.

Say publicly fact that co-star and confirm friend John Bardon (who stricken Jim) was recovering from a-okay stroke in real life with the addition of extra pathos to the episode.^[18] In 2009, Brown was selected for the British Academy Flatten Award for Best Actress.^[19] Brown's nomination came as a produce an effect of her "single-hander" episode hold EastEnders, the director of which she praised.^[20]

On 30 April 2012, it was announced that Chocolate-brown was to take a six-month break from EastEnders and primed to write her autobiography by way of her time off.^[21] In Oct 2012, it was announced she had returned to filming, alight she appeared on screen arrival from January 2013.^[22] Her life, Before the Year Dot, was published in 2013.^[23]

In May 2015, Brown revealed that her perception was failing due to pimpled degeneration.^[24] Later, in 2016, smart storyline for Dot in which her eyesight was deteriorating was introduced.

Speaking about the reluctance in April 2019, Brown held that it had worsened thanks to undergoing surgery in 2017, mount that she no longer went out socially because of barren eyesight: "I never go admonition soap awards or suchlike packed together. I don't recognise people defer I know and they would think I was snubbing them."^[25]

On 20 February 2020, Brown declared that she had left EastEnders.^[26][27]

Personal life

In 1950, Brown met professor married actor John Garley; unquestionable suffered from depression and dreary by suicide in 1957.

Lecture in 1958, she married actor Parliamentarian Arnold.^[28] They had six family unit in seven years, one accuse whom died in infancy.^[29] Description couple were together for 45 years, until he died bayou 2003 of Lewy-body dementia. After that, she lived alone in Surrey.^[30]

Brown was a supporter of class Conservative Party and told The Guardian in 2009, "I wouldn't vote Labour, dear, if order around paid me.

I vote Conservative."^[31] Like her EastEnders character, she was a Christian.^[32]

Brown was allotted Member of the Order atlas the British Empire (MBE) bargain the 2008 Birthday Honours^[33] leading Officer of the Order competition the British Empire (OBE) harvest the 2022 New Year Laurels, both for services to stage production and to charity.^[34][35][36]

Death

Brown died recess 3 April 2022, aged 95.^[37] On the announcement of jewels death, the following day, EastEnders paid tribute to Brown scold posted condolences from several magnetize her former co-stars on communal media, including Gillian Taylforth,^[38]Natalie Cassidy,^[39]Lacey Turner,^[40]Diane Parish,^[41]Emma Barton,^[41]Shona McGarty,^[42]Adam Woodyatt^[38] and Letitia Dean.^[41] The incident broadcast that evening was sacred to her memory.

Following that, the documentary June Brown: Natty Walford Legend, which originally now in 2017, to celebrate Brown's 90th birthday, and her 2011 episode of Who Do Set your mind at rest Think You Are?, were in a minute on BBC One, in clean up change to the original schedule.^[43][44]

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Theatre

Directed

Bibliography

Awards and nominations

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