Colette Brown
English actress
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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]
Colette Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) |
| Occupation | actress |
| Years active | 1991 - present |
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 Our Friends in the North (Ep. 8, "1987"),[9], 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 (S13 E140) and Della in Desmond's, 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]