Actress Jean Boht is said to have left a huge £2.6million fortune following her death.
The legendary star, best known for her role as Ma Nellie Boswell on hit BBC sitcom Bread, died on September 12, 2023. Her passing came just weeks after her beloved husband. She passed following a battle with vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease at the Denville Hall care home for actors and people in the entertainment industry.
In a statement at the time, her family said: "It is with overwhelming sadness that we must announce that Jean Boht passed away yesterday Tuesday 12 September. Jean had been battling vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease with the indefatigable spirit for which she was both beloved and renowned."
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Getty Images)And now her estate has been revealed, according to Mail Online. The publication says the actress, whose real name was Jean Davis, left an estate of £2,634,969. The outlet said this was reduced to a net figure of £2,621,271 after payment of liabilities.
Probate records show Jean left everything to her two filmmaker daughters Hannah Law, 52, and Jessie Stevenson, 50, in her will.
Jean and enjoyed a successful career on both stage and screen, with her role in Carla Lane's Bread even winning her the British Comedy Award for best TV comedy actress. The show ran from 1986 to 1991 and was watched by more than 20 million people at its peak. Following its end, Jean toured Britain in the stage show titled Bread – The Final Slice.
She claimed to have never watched herself back on Bread at the time. In 2012, she said: 'I never watched it at the time. It's too horrendous for actors to see themselves on screen, so I had no idea what it looked like. But now, when I catch it, I am just astounded at how good it was and how very funny."
After appearing in Casualty for a fourth time in 2012, Jean revealed how exhausting the experience of playing the role of Doris, an older woman with dementia, was. She said at the time: "You have to do the scenes three or four times and there was a lot of shouting and crying, which you have to be able to repeat at absolutely the same level. It’s great fun but very tiring," she explained.
Her CV also included performances in the likes of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Last Of The Summer Wine, Brighton Belle, Grange Hill, Juliet Bravo, Boys From The Blackstuff, Doctors, Holby City, Skins and The Bill. In 1989, she was also the subject of the biographical television show This Is Your Life.
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