Gilly Coman

Who was Gilly Coman?

Gilly Coman was a British actress, who played Aveline in the first four series of Carla Lane's sitcom Bread.

She had also appeared in such programmes as Scully, Coronation Street, Brookside, Inspector Morse, Springhill and Emmerdale Farm.

She also appeared in the BBC sitcom Open All Hours. She played Marigold Lockton in the 1997 TV adaptation of the Jilly Cooper novel The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous.

Coman died on 13 July 2010 while at her mother's grave, of a suspected heart attack and is survived by her husband Phil, a photographer, her three sons and one daughter. She had a known heart condition, and was scheduled for a pacemaker operation.