Patricia June Thorburn-Smith (8 June 1931 – 4 November 1967) was a popular English actress whose career was cut short by her death in an air crash.   When she was 20 she left home and moved to London to pursue her career, where she met and married her first husband, Aldon Richard .  The marriage ended in divorce and June moved back to Hampshire, close to her family, for a couple of years until her career started to take off.

In 1957, she moved back to London, where shortly thereafter she met Morten Smith-Petersen, who subsequently became her second husband. She was married to him until her death in 1967. Together with Morten, she had a second daughter named Inger-Sheleen Christabel.

She appeared in her first commercial film in 1952, and quickly worked her way up from supporting roles to second female leads. One of her most notable roles in the mid-1950s was in the comedy-drama Touch and Go (1955), starring Jack Hawkins. Thorburn began to win leading roles, in British comedies such as True as a Turtle(1957) and costume dramas such as Fury at Smugglers’ Bay (1961) and The Scarlet Blade (1963).^[4] Her most notable film appearance was as the Forest Queen in Tom Thumb (1958). During the early 1960s, she also appeared regularly on British television.

In 1960 she appeared in the television series Danger Man in the episode entitled “The Prisoner” as Sue Carpenter.   She also starred with Sean Connery and Claire Bloom in a television adaptation of “Anna Karenina”.