Jean Boht
Jean Boht (born Jean Dance) was an English actress.
She was most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy Bread.
In a career spanning from 1971 to the 2010s, she 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 was married to composer Carl Davis, and they had 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.
Acting
TV
Skins
as Doreen
2007
Movie
Distant Voices, Still Lives
as Aunty Nell
1988
TV
Casualty
as Lil Clark
1986
TV
Casualty
as Dorothy Gilbert
1986
TV
Casualty
as Doris Quinn
1986
TV
The Bill
1984
Movie
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
as Madame Joliet
1987
TV
Last of the Summer Wine
1973
TV
The Sweeney
as Neighbour
1975
TV
Grange Hill
as Shop Assistant
1978
TV
Bread
as Nellie Boswell
1986
TV
Bergerac
as Mrs. Farrell
1981
TV
Boys from the Blackstuff
as Miss Sutcliffe
1982
Movie
The Girl in a Swing
as Mrs. Taswell
1988
TV
Blankety Blank
1979
Movie
Liberation
as Narrator
1994
TV
Noel's House Party
1991
Movie
Where Adam Stood
as Mary Teague
1976
Movie
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
as Betty
1984
TV
Brighton Belles
as Josephine
1993
TV
Scully
as Gran
1984
TV
Bill Brand
as Edna Copple
1976
Movie
The Asylum
as Mrs. Brindle
2000
Movie
Bad Night for the Blues
as Glad
2010