How old is dot branning in real life

She's an incredibly hard worker. Asked about the rather low-key send-off her character had on screen, he said: "I think it could've been a better exit, that's for sure, but she must have discussed this with the powers that be.

It's the way it is, it's a shame. Actor Leslie Grantham, who played Dirty Den, suggested her for the role. Until then, Brown's career had incorporated stage, film and television, with appearances in Coronation Street and Doctor Who. In fact I became so punctual I used to be in an hour before I should be. She said it "was a very strange feeling" leaving the soap. Why do I feel so sad? Really Dot wasn't me, but spiritually she probably was. Brown took a four-year break from the soap between and In , Brown became the first actor in a British soap to carry an entire episode alone, with an emotional monologue dictated to a cassette for her screen husband to listen to in hospital following a stroke.

That same year she was made an MBE for services to drama and charity. Speaking on the Distinct Nostalgia podcast to former co-star Rani Singh, who played shop owner Sufia Karim in the late s, June said she had already mourned her character.

Why do I feel so sad? One of her biggest storylines was for the 30th anniversary when she gave villain son Nick John Altman, 67 a fatal dose of heroin and let him die. Jump directly to the content. Sign in. All Football. Alas and alack, when I got back it had gone up in smoke. I got a small part, a very small part. And that ended up as a big wet fart. Alas and alack, I will never go back. The veteran actor arrived on the square shortly after the soap began in , and aside from a break between and , has been a stalwart ever since.

A keen gossip on the square, she ran its launderette for many years and was a confidant for many characters. The devout Christian would often be found reciting quotes from the Bible in her often unprompted advice for long-suffering neighbours.