Best known for portraying the handbag clutching, cigarette smoking resident of ... "We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved June Brown, OBE, MBE sadly passed away last night.

June Brown is a mother-of-five and an award-winning TV actor, playing the prudish Dot Cotton (now Dot Branning) on EastEnders. Dot, with a cigarette dangling from her dark red lips, patrolling ...