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'' in which she played Holly Trevors in the episode "''The Day of the Devil."'' Coman also played Marigold Lockton in '' The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous'' (1997), the TV adaptation of the

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novel. Gilly Coman died of a suspected heart attack on 13 July 2010, at the age of 54. She had a heart condition and died just two weeks before she was scheduled for a pacemaker operation.

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Obituary in ''The Guardian''
1955 births 2010 deaths English soap opera actresses English television actresses Actresses from Liverpool {{England-actor-stub