Gilly Coman


Gilly Coman was an English actress, who played Aveline in the first four series of Carla Lane's sitcom Bread.
She also appeared in Scully, Coronation Street, Brookside, Inspector Morse, Springhill and Emmerdale Farm and in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours. She played Marigold Lockton in The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, the TV adaptation of the Jilly Cooper novel.
Coman died of a suspected heart attack on 13 July 2010 at her mother's grave in Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy, Wirral, Merseyside. She is survived by her husband, Phil, a photographer, her three sons and one daughter. She had a heart condition and died just two weeks before she was scheduled for a pacemaker operation.