Jean Boht, best known for playing matriarch Nellie Boswell in BBC sitcom Bread, has died. She was 91. 

Boht had a long and distinguished career in comedy and drama. She was most famous for her roles in Bread and I Woke Up One Morning, both written by Carla Lane, and Brighton Belles and the Liverpool-set drama Boys From the Blackstuff.

She also appeared in a 1981 adaptation of the DH Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers and Terence Davies' 1988 film Distant Voices, Still Lives.