Charlotte Ninon Coleman was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, 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.

Charlotte Coleman’s first major television role was as Sue in Southern Television’s Worzel Gummidge, which ran for four seasons (and a Christmas special) from 1978 to 1981 on the ITV network.

Other early work included A Choice of Evils (Play for Today, BBC, 1977) and Two People (London Weekend Television, 1979), as Emma Moffatt).

Charlotte Coleman played Scarlett in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) with Hugh Grant, Simon Callow and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Charlotte Coleman received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for this part, losing to Scott Thomas.

Charlotte Coleman continued to act in films throughout the 1990s with her last major film being Jasmin Dizdar’s Beautiful People (1999), set in London in 1993, at the time of the Yugoslav Wars, playing the role of Portia Thornton.

Charlotte Coleman died in November 2001 at the age of 33, from a massive attack of bronchial asthma.