{{Short description|British actress (1955–2010)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Gilly Coman | birth_date = {{Birth date|1955|9|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Liverpool, England | death_date = {{death date and age|2010|7|13|1955|9|13|df=yes}} | death_place = Wirral, England | birth_name = Gillian Helen Coman | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1978–2000 | spouse = {{marriage|Phil Cutts|1976}} | children = 4 }}
'''Gilly Coman''' (13 September 1955 – 13 July 2010) was an English actress, who played Aveline in the first four series of Carla Lane's sitcom ''Bread''.
==Life and career== Coman appeared in ''Scully'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Brookside'', ''A Touch of Frost'', ''Springhill,'' ''Emmerdale Farm,'' the BBC sitcom ''Open All Hours'' and ''Inspector Morse'' in which she played Holly Trevors in the episode "''The Day of the Devil."'' She also appeared in Boys From the Blackstuff as a DHSS employee in the Job Centre frequented by the main characters
Coman also played Marigold Lockton in ''The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous'' (1997), the TV adaptation of the Jilly Cooper novel.
Gilly Coman died of a suspected heart attack on 13 July 2010, at the age of 54.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/jul/18/gillian-coman-obituary-actor-bread | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=Gilly Coman obituary | first=Anthony | last=Hayward | date=18 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-10655320 |title=Bread actress Gilly Coman dies aged 54 |work=BBC News Online |date=15 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/bread-star-actress-gilly-coman-3401616 |title=Bread star actress Gilly Coman dies from suspected heart attack |work=Liverpool Echo |date=15 July 2010}}</ref> She had a heart condition and died just two weeks before she was scheduled for a pacemaker operation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/bread-star-gilly-coman-died-3393253 |title=Bread star Gilly Coman died from heart condition during visit to mum's grave |work=Liverpool Echo |date=14 October 2010}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0173522}} * [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/jul/18/gillian-coman-obituary-actor-bread Obituary in ''The Guardian'']
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