June Brown

June Brown OBE
Brown in 2009
Born	June Muriel Brown (1927-02-16)16 February 1927 Needham Market, Suffolk, England
Died	3 April 2022(2022-04-03) (aged 95) Surrey, England
Occupations	Actress author
Years active	1952–2021
Known for	Role of Dot Cotton in EastEnders
Spouses	John Garley ​ ​ (m. 1950; died 1957)​ Robert Arnold ​ ​ (m. 1958; died 2003)​
Children	6
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1944–1945
Unit	Women's Royal Naval Service
Battles / wars	Second World War

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,^[1] 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.