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June Brown

Born June Brown
16 February 1927 (1927-02-16) (age 81)
Needham Market, Suffolk, England
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) John Garley (1950–57)
Robert Arnold
(1958–2003)

June Brown (born 16 February 1927) is an English actress and presenter best known for her role as Dot Cotton in the British soap opera EastEnders. Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Needham Market is a Town in Suffolk, England. It initially grew around the Wool combing industry until the onset of the plague, which Suffolk (ˈsʌfək is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Events 1249 - Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works A presenter, or host (sometimes hostess, in feminine form is a Person or Organization responsible for running an event Dorothy "Dot" Cotton (née Colwell; previously Branning) is a Fictional character in the popular BBC Soap opera, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985

Brown served in the Wrens (Royal Navy), and was classically trained at the Old Vic Drama School. The Old Vic is a Theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road.

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Film and Television career

Brown has had a long television career, with small roles in Coronation Street as Mrs Parsons (1970); in the Doctor Who story "The Time Warrior" as Lady Eleanor (1974); medical soap Angels; history-of-Britain Churchill's People; long-running comedy drama Minder; police soap The Bill; and cult sci-fi series Survivors. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Coronation Street (commonly known as 'Corrie' is an award-winning Soap opera created by Tony Warren Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The Time Warrior is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in Angels was a British television drama dealing with the subject of student nurses that was broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1983 Minder was a British Comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. The Bill is a long-running British Television Police procedural, named after a slang term for the police. She also had a bigger part as Mrs Leyton in the very popular costume drama The Duchess of Duke Street (1976), and played Mrs Mann in Oliver Twist (1985). The Duchess Of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925 Oliver Twist (1838 is Charles Dickens' second Novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial

She has also starred in the wartime big band comedy Ain't Misbehavin (1997), and played Nanny Slagg in the BBC's big-budget production of Gormenghast in 2000. The Gormenghast series is a series of books written by Mervyn Peake centered around Castle Gormenghast and the character Titus Groan. She had a number of small roles in several famous movies, appearing as the grieving mother of an undead biker in British horror flick Psychomania (1971), as well as Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Straw Dogs (1971), Murder by Decree (1979), Nijinsky (1980), The Mambo Kings (1992), the hugely successful Mr. Bean and the movie adaption Bean (1997),. Horror films are Movies that strive to elicit Fear, Horror and terror responses from viewers Several violent incidents have been called " Bloody Sunday " particularly the Northern Irish Bloody Sunday (1972 Straw Dogs is a 1971 Film directed by Sam Peckinpah which stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. Murder by Decree is a 1979 Anglo-Canadian film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper Nijinsky redirects here For other uses of the name see Nijinsky (disambiguation. The Mambo Kings is a 1992 Film starring Antonio Banderas and Armand Assante and directed by Arne Glimcher based on the Pulitzer Bean, also known as Bean The Ultimate Disaster Movie or Mr Bean The Movie is a 1997 feature film based on the television

EastEnders and Dot

Brown was recommended to producers for the role of Dot by another one of its original cast members, Leslie Grantham, who played the show's villain, Den Watts. Leslie Michael Grantham (born 30 April 1947 in Camberwell, England is a British actor best known for playing "Dirty" Den Watts in the Dennis "Den" Watts was a Fictional character in the popular BBC Soap opera EastEnders, played by actor Leslie Grantham Dot is one of the longest-running characters in EastEnders; Brown played the role from 1985 to 1993, and then again from 1997 onwards.

Initially a highly unsympathetic character in EastEnders - a sanctimonious, judgemental and two-faced busybody - Dot was originally brought on for a short-term story arc to complement the storyline of her screen son, Nick Cotton, being accused of murder. EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985 Dot became a popular character, and has matured into the best loved character in the programme, a 'mother earth' figure who anyone can go to in times of need.

On an interview on the Paul O'Grady Show in December 2007 Brown expressed embarrassment at watching herself on screen and she has a highly modest attitude towards her role as Dot.

On January 31st 2008 June made history by being the first and so far only actress to carry an entire episode single handed in the history of British soap, with a monologue looking back over her past life, dictated to a cassette machine for her husband Jim to listen to in hospital following a stroke. A stroke is the rapidly developing loss of brain functions due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain The fact that co-star John Bardon (who plays Jim) is recovering from a stroke in real life added an extra terrible pathos to the episode, which a reviewer described as "as powerful and poignant a piece of drama as you will see on TV all year". John Bardon, (born John Michael Jones, 25 August 1939 in Brentford, Middlesex) is an English stage and Television [1][2]

Theatre roles

Brown has also been active in British theatre, directing Pin Money (by Malcolm Needs) in London, and Double D in London and Edinburgh. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. She played Mrs Danvers in a production of Rebecca. Rebecca is a Novel by British author Daphne du Maurier. When Rebecca was first published in 1938 du Maurier became - to her great Other plays include An Inspector Calls, The Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, and numerous pantomimes including The Witches, in which her sister also performed. An Inspector Calls is a play written by English Dramatist J B The Lion in Winter is a 1966 Broadway play by James Goldman, who also cinematically adapted it in 1968 for the film directed by A View from the Bridge is a play by Arthur Miller originally produced as a one-act Verse drama on Broadway in 1955 Pantomime (informally panto) (not to be confused with a Mime artist, referring to a theatrical performer of mime is a performance genre traditionally found

Awards and recognition

Brown received a Lifetime Achievement award at the 2005 British Soap Awards, presented by her close friend Anna Wing, formerly EastEnders' Lou Beale. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The British Soap Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honour the best of British (not Irish but yet it claims Ireland is part of Britain by the looks of its map logo Anna Wing (born 30 October 1914) is an English Actress. She has had a long career in Television and Theatre. EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985 Louise Ada "Lou" Beale (née Medeemey) was a Fictional character in the BBC Soap opera EastEnders.

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. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II

Biography

Born in Suffolk in 1927 (nine years earlier than Dot) she attended Ipswich High School, an independent school for girls. Ipswich High School is a girls' Independent school, located near the town of Ipswich, England. Her father was wealthy, but he 'went bust'. Her baby brother died of pneumonia in 1932 aged 15 days and her elder sister Marise died in 1934 aged 8 from a meningitis-like illness. Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the Lung. Frequently it is described as lung Parenchyma / alveolar inflammation and abnormal Meningitis is Inflammation of the protective membranes covering the Brain and Spinal cord, known collectively as the Meninges.

In 1950, she met and married the 'brilliant' actor John Garley, but he suffered depression and gassed himself at home in 1957. In 1958, she married Robert Arnold, star of the well-known early BBC television programme Dixon of Dock Green. Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series, which ran from 1955 to 1976 and later a radio series They had six children, though her second daughter, Chloe(b. 1960) born premature at 28 weeks, died aged only 16 days. The surviving children are Louise (b. 1959), Sophie (b. 1961), (William/Billy b. 1962), Chloe (b. 1964) and Naomi (b. 1965). Chloe suffered paralysis, but June is reported as saying that it went away after she prayed for healing.

June and Arnott were together for forty-five years, until he died in 2003, and since then she has lived alone in their big house near Croydon. [2]

June is pleased to have been able to able to restore Dot as a character of depth in her ground-breaking episode, especially after reports that she wanted to leave the series in 2007 because she had disagreed with a storyline in which Dot found a refugee baby abandoned in a church. She signed a (£370,000) contract in April 2007 to play Dot Cotton for another year. And she signed a £570,000 deal in April 2008 to play Dot for another year. June Brown said " I feel better with the writers know as they are coming up with sustainable storylines for me to play. On top of that the arrival of John Bardon has boosted my confidence.

Acting roles

Film

Television

Theatre

Directed

References

  1. ^ EastEnder legend June Brown's rise from the stage to the Square - Mirror.co.uk
  2. ^ a b June Brown: All alone in Dot's kitchen - People, News - Independent.co.uk

External links

Bean, also known as Bean The Ultimate Disaster Movie or Mr Bean The Movie is a 1997 feature film based on the television The Mambo Kings is a 1992 Film starring Antonio Banderas and Armand Assante and directed by Arne Glimcher based on the Pulitzer Nijinsky redirects here For other uses of the name see Nijinsky (disambiguation. Murder by Decree is a 1979 Anglo-Canadian film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper Straw Dogs is a 1971 Film directed by Sam Peckinpah which stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. Several violent incidents have been called " Bloody Sunday " particularly the Northern Irish Bloody Sunday (1972 Angels was a British television drama dealing with the subject of student nurses that was broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1983 Coronation Street (commonly known as 'Corrie' is an award-winning Soap opera created by Tony Warren Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The Time Warrior is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in The Duchess Of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925 EastEnders is a most popular and award-winning Television Soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985 The Gormenghast series is a series of books written by Mervyn Peake centered around Castle Gormenghast and the character Titus Groan. Oliver Twist (1838 is Charles Dickens' second Novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial Survivors was a British television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977 The Sweeney was a British Television Police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, an elite branch of the Metropolitan The Bill is a long-running British Television Police procedural, named after a slang term for the police. 24 is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American action Drama Television series. An Inspector Calls is a play written by English Dramatist J B The Lion in Winter is a 1966 Broadway play by James Goldman, who also cinematically adapted it in 1968 for the film directed by Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian Playwright Henrik Ibsen. Rebecca is a Novel by British author Daphne du Maurier. When Rebecca was first published in 1938 du Maurier became - to her great
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