June Brown

June Muriel Brown, 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. It was announced in February 2020, that Brown had decided to quit playing Dot in EastEnders permanently, after nearly 35 years.