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We’ve unhappy information to report out of London at present:
Beloved actress Jill Freud, who’s finest identified for her work within the beloved vacation romcom Love Really, has handed away on the age of 98.
Freud might not have been a family identify because of her performing, however she crossed paths with well-known historic and cultural figures so often that she was mainly the British reply to Forrest Gump.
Information of her demise comes courtesy of her daughter, Emma Freud:
“My stunning 98-year-old mum has taken her remaining bow. After a loving night — the place we knew she was on her method — surrounded by kids, grandchildren and pizza, she informed us all to fuck off so she might fall asleep. After which she by no means awoke. Her remaining phrases have been ‘I really like you,’” Emma wrote on social media on Monday.
Born June Frewett, Jill adopted the stage identify Jill Raymond early in her profession and was normally referred to as Jill Freud after her marriage to Clement Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud.
As a young person throughout World Struggle II, she was evacuated from London to Oxford, the place she ultimately discovered work as a housekeeper on the Kilns, the home Lewis shared along with his brother, Warnie.
Lewis was so impressed by hew character that he reportedly modeled the character Lucy in his Chronicles of Narnia sequence after Freud.
“I’ve by no means actually met something like her unselfishness and endurance and kindness and shall really feel deeply in her debt so long as I reside,” Lewis wrote of Freued in a letter from 1945 (through The Guardian).
As an actress, Jill is finest identified for her remaining skilled function, taking part in Hugh Grant’s housekeeper in Love Really.
In her assertion, Emma Freud wrote that Jill was a mentor to “a whole bunch of actors who beloved her for her ardour, her care, her shepherd’s pie, her devotion to regional theatre and her dedication to actors’ rights.”
She added that her mom “had the identical lunch day by day – a glass of crimson wine and a packet of crisps, and through Covid, aged 93, locked up with three different Freud gals, she took half in a faucet class each morning.
“She was 98, mom of 5, grandmother of 17, great-grandmother of seven — she was feisty, outrageous, type, loving and mischievous,” Emma continued, including:
“Fortunate previous heaven getting such a blinding newcomer.”
Our ideas exit to Jill Freud’s family members throughout this enormously tough time.
