Charlotte Ninon Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Jess in the television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and her childhood roles of Sue in Worzel Gummidge and the character Marmalade Atkins. Coleman died of an asthma attack in Islington, North London, aged 33.
Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and tel...
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Charlotte Ninon Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Jess in the television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and her childhood roles of Sue in Worzel Gummidge and the character Marmalade Atkins. Coleman died of an asthma attack in Islington, North London, aged 33.
Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and television producer Francis Coleman. Her younger sister is the actress Lisa Coleman. She attended the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington, North London, because she said she was "too cool" to go to the Brownies.
At 15, feeling that her upbringing had been too liberal — her parents "didn't believe in restraint" — Coleman enrolled at Dartington Hall school in Devon. It was a very progressive school where students "didn't have to go to any lessons, so I didn't. I spent 15 grand — all my money — and it was just stupid really." After this, she...
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