June Brown

June Muriel Brown OBE 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 19851993 19972020 In 2005 she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement award at the 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 and promoted 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 she announced that she had left EastEnders permanently at the age of 93 Description above from the Wikipedia article June Brown licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia