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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]