1. Charlotte Ninon Coleman was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral and Jess in the television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
13 Facts About Charlotte Coleman
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Charlotte Coleman was educated at Camden School for Girls, from which she was expelled.
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At 15, feeling that her upbringing had been too liberal, since her parents "didn't believe in restraint", Charlotte Coleman enrolled at Dartington Hall School in Devon.
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Charlotte Coleman had a crush on Stephen Garlick, her co-star in Two People.
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In 1990, Charlotte Coleman appeared as Jess, a teenage girl from Lancashire brought up by a strict Pentecostal mother, in the BBC television drama Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, based on Jeanette Winterson's novel of the same name.
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Charlotte Coleman won a Royal Television Society, Best Actress award and was nominated for a BAFTA for her portrayal of the young lesbian character.
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Charlotte Coleman read the novel for release by BBC Audiobooks.
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Charlotte Coleman played Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral with Hugh Grant, Simon Callow and Kristin Scott Thomas.
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Charlotte Coleman received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for this part, losing to Scott Thomas.
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Charlotte Coleman continued to act in films throughout the 1990s with her last major film being Jasmin Dizdar's Beautiful People, set in London in 1993, at the time of the Yugoslav Wars, playing the role of Portia Thornton.
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Charlotte Coleman portrayed the character of the teenage Lorna in Our Own Kind, at the Bush Theatre in London.
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Charlotte Coleman co-starred with Kevin Whately, Nisha Nayar and Jane Horrocks.
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Charlotte Coleman died aged 33 on 14 November 2001 from bronchial asthma.