Jill Freud: Actress, CS Lewis’s Inspiration, Dies at 98

Jill Freud, actress and theater producer, passed away at 98. Inspired Lucy Pevensie in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Married Clement Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud. Ran theater business.

Freud likewise “ran 2 reparatory theater business in Suffolk for three decades, utilizing 100’s of actors that enjoyed her for her passion, her care, her shepherd’s pie, her commitment to local theater and her dedication to actor’s civil liberties,” her daughter composed.

Early Life and Career

June Beatrice Flewett was born upon April 22, 1927. She was left from London to leave the Strike, and when she was 16, she moved in with Lewis and his friend, Jane Moore, in their country house in Oxford as a maid.

After 3 years, Jill left Lewis to study acting at the Royal Academy of Remarkable Art in London, with the author paying her way. Utilizing the phase name Jill Raymond, she acted in the West End, in such films as The Woman in the Hall (1947) and on TV programs consisting of Torchy, the Battery Young boy.

“He would certainly let me get any type of book I wanted. He would talk to me regarding points– never make me really feel tiny. If I claimed anything actually silly, he simply wouldn’t address.

Marriage to Clement Freud

“My lovely 98 year old mum has taken her last bow,” she wrote. “After a caring evening– where we knew she was on her means– bordered by children, grandchildren and pizza, she told us all to f *** off so she might go to rest. She wed Clement Freud, grand son of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in 1950. An actor, writer, newspaper columnist and broadcaster, he served as the Participant of Parliament for the Isle of Ely from 1973 till 1987, when he was knighted and she ended up being Woman Freud.

She wed Clement Freud, grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in 1950. A star, writer, paper writer and broadcaster, he functioned as the Member of Parliament for the Island of Ely from 1973 till 1987, when he was knighted and she came to be Lady Freud. He died in 2009 at age 84.

Legacy and Inspiration

Jill Freud, a British actress and theater producer who as C.S. Lewis’ caretaker acted as the author’s ideas for Lucy Pevensie in his Chronicles of Narnia youngsters’s publications, has actually passed away. She was 98.

Survivors include her 5 kids– a son, entrepreneur Matthew Freud, was when married to Elisabeth Murdoch, media exec and little girl of Rupert Murdoch– 17 grandchildren and 7 great- grandchildren.

In the 1950 novel The Lion, the Witch and the Closet, the very first of Lewis’ 7 Chronicles of Narnia publications, Lucy, the youngest of the four Pevensie children, is the initial to find the Closet entryway to the dream world of Narnia. (Georgie Henley portrayed Lucy in the 2005 Disney movie.).

“My lovely 98 year old mum has actually taken her final bow,” she composed. “After a loving evening– where we understood she was on her means– surrounded by kids, grandchildren and pizza, she told us all to f *** off so she might go to rest.

Lewis’s Affection

“I have never actually fulfilled anything like her unselfishness and persistence and kindness and shall really feel deeply in her debt as long as I live,” Lewis wrote in a letter to June’s mom, Winifred, in January 1945.