Colette Brown

Not to be confused with Collette Brown (politician).

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 55–56) Clapham, South London, United Kingdom
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 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]