June Muriel Brown, MBE (born 16 February 1927) is an English actress, best known for her role as Dot Cotton in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders. In 2005, she won Best Actress at the British Soap Awards and also received the Lifetime Achievement award at the same ceremony. In 2009, she was nominated for Best Actress at the BAFTA TV Awards. She is only the second performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work in a soap opera (the first was Jean Alexander).Her other television appearances include Doctor Who (1973-1974) the comedy series Now and Then (1983-1984) and the 2003 TV film Margery and Gladys opposite Penelope Keith. She was made a MBE in the 2008 Queens Birthday Honours.
Robert Arnold (m. 1958–2003), John Garley (m. 1950–1957)
Children
William Arnold, Naomi Arnold, Chloe Arnold, Sophie Arnold, Lousie Arnold
Parents
Louisa Brown
Siblings
Marise Brown, John Brown, Lois Brown, Rosemary Brown
Awards
The British Soap Award for Outstanding Achievement, The British Soap Award for Best Onscreen Partnership
Nominations
British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, The British Soap Award for Best Comedy Performance, National Television Award for Most Popular Actress, The British Soap Award for Best Actress
Movies
Ethel & Ernest, Margery and Gladys, Bean, Misunderstood, Nijinsky
TV Shows
God's Wonderful Railway, The Duchess of Duke Street, EastEnders, Gormenghast, Pirates
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[on Stephen Fry] He's such a lovely man. Such a clever, lovely man with a nice relationship.
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Was presented her Lifetime Achievement Award at The British Soap Awards 2005 (2005) by her former EastEnders (1985) co-star Anna Wing. Wing's character Lou Beale was Brown's character Dot Cotton's best friend on the show.
Ranked #7 in The 100 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Characters of All Time for her performance as Dot Branning (2015).
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Gave birth to her 6th child at age 39, a daughter Naomi Arnold in September 1966. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Robert Arnold.
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Gave birth to her 5th child at age 37, a daughter Chloe J. Arnold in June 1964. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Robert Arnold.
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Gave birth to her 4th child at age 35, a son William M. Arnold in September 1962. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Robert Arnold.
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 33, a daughter Chloe Arnold in June 1960. She was born 12 weeks premature and died 16 days later. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Robert Arnold.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 32, a daughter Louise Arnold in March 1959. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Robert Arnold.
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Gave birth to her 3rd child a age 34, a daughter Sophie E. Arnold in June 1961. Child's father was her 2nd husband, Robert Arnold.
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Ranked #11 in the 100 Greatest EastEnders (1985) Characters of All Time for her performance as Dot Branning (2010).
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Aunt to Ann (b. 1953), Michael (1954) and Michelle (b. 1955) via her sister Rosemary and her husband William Thompson, and Heather (b. 1960), Angela (b. 1964) and Hugh (b. 1964) via her sister Lois and her husband Geoffrey Waldron.
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Sister to Marise (1925-1934), Rosemary (1930-2000), John (1932) and Lois (b. 1936).
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Brown, her mother Louisa and her sister Rosemary have all lost children; Louisa survived both her daughter Marise and son John, Rosemary survived her son Michael and June has survived her daughter Chloe.
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As of 2016 she is the longest serving actress on the history of EastEnders (1985), having played the character Dot Branning intermittently for 27 years (initially from 1985 until 1993 and then from 1997 onwards).
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