Bread actress Jean Boht who played Nellie Boswell in BBC sitcom leaves eye-watering amount in will after death aged 91
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LEGENDARY Bread actress Jean Boht left an eye-watering amount in her will. Boht, who played Nellie Boswell in the BBC sitcom, sadly passed away aged 91 from Alzheimer's complications on September 12, 2023. Following years of success, Boht was able to leave a whopping estate to her two filmmaker daughters Hannah Law, 52, and Jessie Stevenson, 50, probate records have now disclosed.
![[Jean Boht, pictured here in 2016, left a huge sum to her two daughters in her will]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jean-boht-arrives-uk-film-844665702.jpg?strip=all&w=698)
A staggering £2,634,969, reduced to a net figure of £2,621,271 after payment of liabilities, was divided between her children, reports MailOnline. Nothing was left to the actress' second husband Carl Davis, who she wed in 1970, after he died just six weeks before her.
![[Boht with husband Carl Davis and their two daughters Hannah and Jessie]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/jean-boht-husband-carl-davis-844708439.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The BAFTA award-winning American-British conductor and composer passed away aged 86 on August 3, 2023, following a brain haemorrhage. Davis wrote the music for classic The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1981 and the BBC drama Pride and Prejudice in 1995.
![[Boht in a scene from the BBC television sitcom Bread on June 3, 1990]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/actress-jean-boht-using-telephone-844665901.jpg?strip=all&w=634)
The star musician was also well known for composing the 2006 World Cup theme. Boht won a British Comedy Award for her portrayal of the acid-tongued matriarch Nellie 'Ma' Boswell in the eighties sitcom. She was an accomplished theatre actress who also had television roles in Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, Last Of The Summer Wine and Boys From The Blackstuff.
![[Boht's husband Davis died just six weeks before her]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/g8wt3f-jean-boht-attending-florence-844699986.jpg?strip=all&w=639)
Treading the boards, she rubbed shoulders with the likes of Sean Connery, Cilla Black, Jeremy Irons, Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Anthony Hopkins. But it was her role as Nellie in the BBC show centred on a working-class family in inner-city Liverpool that made her a household name.
![[Boht with her co-stars on the scene of Bread in 1989]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/victor-mcguire-peter-howitt-gilly-956176323.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
