Jill Freud(1927-2025)
- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Daughter of Henry Walter Flewett (1892-1970) and Winifred Johnson
Flewett (1896-1967). Educated at Sacred Heart Convent School (R.C.),
London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (1945-1947). After being
evacuated with her school to Oxford during the war, became a volunteer
housekeeper and hen-keeper in the household of C.S. Lewis, several
times deferring her acceptance of a place at RADA. Founded Jill Freud
and Company (1980), a non-profit repertory company. In 2001 received an
Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from the University of East Anglia "for
services to the theatre." Married writer Clement Freud, grandson of
Sigmund Freud, 4 September 1950. Clement later became M.P. for the Isle
of Ely 1973-1987, was knighted in 1987, and became rector of St.
Andrew's University 2003. With his knighthood, Jill Freud became "Lady
Freud."
