June Rodgers

Early life Rodgers was born on 24 June 1959 in the suburb of Tallaght when it was "still a sleepy rural village in County Dublin". Rodgers notes that she was "laughed at" in school due to her weight. Rodgers added:

Being a teenager and not knowing what was going on with my feelings when it came to boys, Will You Love Me Tomorrow was my song. I spent most nights singing it into the mirror with my Denman hairbrush as a microphone, as I had a huge crush on a boy who liked me - but not as much as I liked him. The heartache of youth! The job was located beside the Urney Chocolate Factory, to get to which, Rodgers and sister walked along the Belgard Road, which "was all fields" at the time. She and her parents moved to nearby Brittas when the suburb of Tallaght began to be heavily developed. Fujitsu started a society where employees could perform together at the John Player Tops Of The Town talent contest, and in the 1980s, Rodgers joined as a dancer in the back row, The following week, she received a phone call at her factory from The Late Late inviting her to perform three minutes on it that coming Friday. Around 1994, Rodgers met fellow entertainer Brenda Brooks at a show in Clontarf Castle, and the two became good friends as well as colleagues over the following decades, with Brooks guesting on some of Rodgers shows.

Rodgers credits Irish comedian Brendan Grace as an influence on her style, and used to watch him perform live at cabaret shows in a pub in Terenure during the 1970s and 80s.

Rodgers put on a Christmas show annually in the Red Cow Moran Hotel for 17 years After a successful diagnosis by a Dublin orthopaedic surgeon, she received a hip replacement.

Filmography Agnes Browne (1999) On the Nose (2001) The Clinic (TV series) (Season 7) (2009) Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014) Mrs Brown's Boys (2018, 2023, 2025)