Jean Boht died on September 12, 2023, aged 91, and was an English actress, most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane’s sitcom Bread from 1986 to 1991. She won a British Comedy Award now known as the “National Comedy Award” for Best Comedy Actress in 1990. She starred in The Brighton Belles, an unsuccessful British adaptation of the American sitcom The Golden Girls as the character of Josephine, based on Sophia Petrillo, the part made famous by Estelle Getty.
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Jean Boht had two daughters from her second marriage. She was married to the American-British conductor and composer Carl Davis on December 28, 1970. Boht and Davis were executive producers on Hannah’s film The Understudy, and they appeared in the film as a married couple, the Davidovitches. Davis died on August 3, 2023.
The couple’s two daughters are filmmakers Hannah Louise who was born in 1972 and is 51 years old, and Jessie Jo who was also born in 1974, and is also 49 years old.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
