Miss Jean Boht's Biography

Miss Jean Boht's Professional Career

Career

actress; patron: Br Homoeopathic Assoc, CMV Fndn, Health Unlimited, Clare's Children's Hospice, Thornberry Animal Sanctuary, SOS, Hoylake Cottage Hosp, Parents for Safe Food, Tommy's Campaign, Lung Cancer Appeal, Merseyside Kidney Fndn, Vera Gray Tst, Wirral NHS Jellybean Appeal; hon Lady Taverner; hon fell John Moores Univ 1992; Theatre Liverpool Playhouse 1962-64, Bristol Old Vic Co 1964, Royal Court 1965-66, Library Theatre Manchester 1966-67, NT 1968 and 1971, Lincoln Theatre Royal 1969, Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop 1969-71, Chichester Festival 1992-94; West End credits incl: St Joan of the Stockyards (Queens) 1964, Steel Magnolias (Lyric) 1990, Bread (Dominion) 1990-91, Dangerous Corner (Whitehall) 1995, Kindertransport (Vaudeville) 1996, The Countess (Criterion) 2005, Embers (Duke of York's Theatre) 2006, White Open Spaces (Soho Theatre) 2006; fringe incl: Kennedy's Children (Kings Head Islington) 1974, Mecca (Open Space) 1977, Wednesday (Bush) 1979, Touched and To Come Home To This (Royal Court) 1980, Birds of Passage (Hampstead) 1983, Lost (Bush) 1986; tours incl: Dangerous Corner 1994-95, Pride and Prejudice 1995, All My Sons 1997, Talking Heads (A Lady of Letters, Soldiering On, and Cream Cracker under the Settee) 1998, Switchboard (Latchmere) 1999, Maria in Twelfth Night (Stafford Castle) 2000, Lil in Why Me 2000, Viva La Diva (Edinburgh Festival) 2001, Just Between Ourselves (nat tour) 2002, The Real Inspector Hound and Black Comedy 2002, Vagina Monologues (tour) 2003-04, Daisy Miller (tour), Calendar Girls (UK tour) 2010; pantomime appearances incl: Croydon, Piccadilly Theatre, Guildford, High Wycombe, Cambridge Arts; Television plays incl: Where Adam Stood, Cranford, Eskimos Do It; series incl: Funny Man, Spyship, Sons and Lovers, Boys From The Black Stuff, Scully, I Woke Up One Morning, Bread, Brighton Belles, Holby City, The Bill, Doctors, Casualty, Justice, Skins, Doctors, Episodes; many guest appearances in comedy series, game shows, charity TV shows and radio plays; Recordings The Pigeon (by Carla Lane) 1990; Film incl: Meddle Not With Change, Distant Voices, Girl On A Swing, Arthur's Hallowed Ground, The Big Game, Jim's Gift, Mothers and Daughters, Little Film, The Feis, Raising Cain, The Understudy, Bad Night for the Blues; Awards incl: BBC TV Personality 1988 (Variety Club of GB), Top Comedy Television Actress 1990 (The Br Comedy Awards), Top Television Personality 1990 (Whitbread Scouseology Awards)

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