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Jean Boht

Jean Boht

Birthday: 1936-03-06 | Place of Birth: Liverpool, England

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Jean Boht (born Jean Dance on 6 March 1936) is an English actress. She is most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy Bread. In a career spanning from 1971 to the present day, she has appeared in such productions as Softly, Softly (1971), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978), Juliet Bravo in the mid 1980s, and most recently in 2004, Mothers and Daughters. In 1989, she was the subject of This Is Your Life. She is married to composer Carl Davis, and they have two daughters. She was a pupil at Wirral Grammar School for Girls. In 2006 she starred on-stage in 'Embers' along with Jeremy Irons at the Duke of York Theatre in London. In 2008 she made a guest appearance in BBC daytime soap Doctors. She starred in Chris Shepherd's 2010 award winning film Bad Night For The Blues. She obtained the name Boht from her first marriage to Bill Boht at that time Manager of the Ritz cinema in Birkenhead Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Boht, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2010
Bad Night for the Blues

as    Glad

1994
Liberation

as    Narrator

1989
Distant Voices, Still Lives

as    Aunty Nell

1988
The Girl in a Swing

as    Mrs. Taswell

1986
Bread

as    Nellie Boswell

1984
Arthur's Hallowed Ground

as    Betty

1982
Boys from the Blackstuff

as    Miss Sutcliffe

1981
Sons and Lovers

as    Mrs Leivers

1971
£60 Single, £100 Return

as    Mrs Potter