Colette Brown
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Colette Brown | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) |
| Occupation | actress |
| Years active | 1991 - present |
Colette Brown is an English actress. Brown was born in Clapham, London, c. 1969.[1] Her mother was a hairdresser and her father was an artist.[2] Brown worked as a receptionist for a doctor while studying for her A levels.[1] She posed for the 1987 Pirelli calendar, photographed by Terence Donovan.[3][4]
In 1994, she was a presenter of the children's television series, Hangar 17.[5][6] She had a minor role in the film Blue Juice (1995).[1]
Brown appeared in "Paying the Price", an episode of the ITV drama A Touch of Frost, in 1996, as police officer Claire Toms who works on a kidnapping case with Detective Inspector Frost.[7][8] The reviewer for The Sunday Telegraph wrote that Toms not being a recurring character was "a sad loss".[7] Brown's other television credits include Casualty, Alice MacDonald in the "1987 episode of Our Friends in the North (1996),[9] and the BBC One daytime soap Doctors and the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood.
Colette played Samantha Kennedy in the BBC medical drama Holby City,[1] Michelle Connor in The Bill (S15 E140) and Della in Desmonds, S6 E10.
Brown was Kirsty Maine in the horror drama Ultraviolet (1998).[10] She played Julie Hill in the first series of Sunburn (1999), a drama about a group of British holiday reps.[11] She also had a role in the film Popcorn (2007).[12]
Brown found out when she was 13 that she was dyslexic.[2] She has a son with actor Gary Love.[1] As of 2002, she was a patron of the Prader–Willi syndrome Association, and appeared in a BBC Inside Out documentary discussing her sister who had the syndrome.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Profile: Colette Brown". The Northern Echo. 31 January 2002. p. 45 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Star Profile". Lancashire Telegraph. 5 February 2002. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Untitled". Burton Mail. 6 November 1986. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Pye, Michael (1988). The Pirelli Calendar Album. London: Pavilion Books. pp. 189–193. ISBN 1-85145-281-8.
- ^ BFI.org
- ^ "Hanging Around". The Daily Telegraph. 19 February 1994. p. YT14 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Pick of the day". The Sunday Telegraph. 7 January 1996. p. R28 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Weekend television highlights". Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph. 6 January 1996. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Eaton, Michael (2005). Our Friends in the North. BFI TV Classics. London: British Film Institute. p. 130. ISBN 1844570924.
- ^ Sangster, Jim (2005). TV Heaven. London: Collins. p. 797.
- ^ Evans, Jeff (2011). The Penguin TV Companion (4th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 908. ISBN 9780241952917.
- ^ Leyland, Matthew (23 February 2003). "Popcorn (2007)". BBC. Retrieved 19 June 2025.
- ^ "Actress aids eating illness victims". BBC News. 14 October 2002.