British actress Jill Freud, 98, died on Nov. 24. As a teenager, she was evacuated to Oxford during the Blitz, where she lived with writer C.S. Lewis (it’s rumored that he based the character of Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe on her). Graduating from RADA, she acted in rep theater companies and on the West End, billed as Jill Raymond. She also acted on TV and in films (The Devil’s Disciple, Stranger at My Door, Malta Story, Torchy the Battery Boy, Crown Court, and Love Actually, which was written and directed by her son-in-law, Richard Curtis). She was married to broadcaster, writer, politician, and chef Clement Freud from 1950 till his death in 2009; many of their children and grandchildren went on to their own fame. Daughter Emma Freud posted that “After a loving evening – where we knew she was on her way – surrounded by children, grandchildren and pizza, she told us all to fuck off so she could go to sleep. And then she never woke up. Her final words were ‘I love you.’”
