June Brown
June Brown
16.02.1927 (97 лет) (Needham Market, Suffolk, England, UK)
June Muriel Brown, (born 16 February 1927) is an English actress, known for her role as Dot Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 1985 until 1993, again from 1997 until 2020. In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards, and in the same year, also received the Lifetime Achievement award at the British Soap Awards. In 2009, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, but lost out to Anna Maxwell Martin. She is the second performer to receive a BAFTA nomination for their work in a soap opera (the first was Jean Alexander). It was announced in February 2020, that Brown had decided to quit playing Dot in EastEnders permanently, after nearly 35 years.She was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours for services to Drama and to Charity.