{{Distinguish|Collette Brown (politician)}}{{Short description|English actress}} {{BLP sources|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Colette Brown | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1969}} | birth_place = Clapham, South London, United Kingdom | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} Death date then birth --> | death_place = | othername = | occupation = actress | years_active = 1991 - present | spouse = | domesticpartner = | website = }} '''Colette Brown''' is an English actress. Brown was born in Clapham, London, {{circa}} 1969.<ref name="PCB"/> Her mother was a hairdresser and her father was an artist.<ref name="SPLT">{{cite news |title=Star Profile |newspaper=Lancashire Telegraph |date=5 February 2002 |page=15 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lancashire-telegraph-starprofile/174822623/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Brown worked as a receptionist for a doctor while studying for her A levels.<ref name="PCB"/> She posed for the 1987 Pirelli calendar, photographed by Terence Donovan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Untitled |newspaper=Burton Mail |date=6 November 1986 |page=5 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/burton-mail-pir/174827066/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Pye |first=Michael |title=The Pirelli Calendar Album |year=1988 |publisher=Pavilion Books |location=London |isbn=1-85145-281-8 |pages=189–193}}</ref>
In 1994, she was a presenter of the children's television series, ''Hangar 17''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110210141009/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/503974 BFI.org]</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Hanging Around |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 February 1994 |page=YT14 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/174822402/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She had a minor role in the film ''Blue Juice'' (1995).<ref name="PCB"/>
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.<ref name="ST96">{{cite news |title=Pick of the day |newspaper=The Sunday Telegraph |date=7 January 1996 |page=R28 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-telegraph-potd/174823555/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Weekend television highlights |newspaper=Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph |date=6 January 1996 |page=13 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/scunthorpe-evening-telegraph-wth/174823566/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The reviewer for ''The Sunday Telegraph'' wrote that Toms not being a recurring character was "a sad loss".<ref name="ST96"/> Brown's other television credits include ''Casualty'', Alice MacDonald in ''Our Friends in the North'' (Ep. 8, "1987"),<ref>{{cite book |last=Eaton |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Eaton |series=BFI TV Classics |title=Our Friends in the North |year=2005 |publisher=British Film Institute |location=London |isbn=1844570924 |page=130 }}</ref>, the BBC One daytime soap ''Doctors'' and the ''Doctor Who'' spinoff ''Torchwood''.
Colette played Samantha Kennedy in the BBC medical drama ''Holby City'',<ref name="PCB"/> Michelle Connor in ''The Bill'' (S13 E140) and Della in ''Desmond's'', S6 E10.
Brown was Kirsty Maine in the horror drama ''Ultraviolet'' (1998).<ref>{{cite book |title=TV Heaven |last=Sangster |first=Jim |year= 2005 |location= London |publisher=Collins |isbn= |page=797 }}</ref> She played Julie Hill in the first series of ''Sunburn'' (1999), a drama about a group of British holiday reps.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Jeff |title=The Penguin TV Companion |date=2011 |publisher=Penguin |location=London |isbn=9780241952917 |page=908 |edition=4th}}</ref> She also had a role in the film ''Popcorn'' (2007).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/02/26/popcorn_2007_review.shtml |last=Leyland|first=Matthew|title=Popcorn (2007)|work=BBC |date=23 February 2003 |accessdate=19 June 2025}}</ref>
Brown found out when she was 13 that she was dyslexic.<ref name="SPLT"/> She has a son with actor Gary Love.<ref name="PCB">{{cite news |title=Profile: Colette Brown |newspaper=The Northern Echo |date=31 January 2002 |page=45 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-northern-echo-teesside-ed-profile/174822496/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Actress aids eating illness victims |website=BBC News |date=14 October 2002 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2314967.stm }}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Colette}} Category:English television actresses Category:English soap opera actresses Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Actresses from London Category:Actors from the London Borough of Lambeth Category:People from Clapham