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June Newton was a successful actress

Alice Springs was born in Melbourne, Australia on 3 June with the name June Brown, changing to June Newton on her marriage to the photographer Helmut Newton ().

At the age of five, she had to come to terms with her parents' divorce; she initially began a career as an actress and celebrated her first successes under the stage name June Brunell - her birth name June Brown had already been taken by another actress - when she met the young and still largely unknown German photographer Helmut Newton, who had fled to Australia to escape the Nazis.

Although she won the Erik Kutter Award as a theatre actress in Melbourne in , she accompanied her husband to London the following year, where he had received a one-year contract with British Vogue. June Newton found a job at the BBC, but at the instigation of her husband, who did not feel comfortable in London, the couple moved on to Paris, where Helmut Newton's star as a photographer fina