Jill Freud, was the inspiration for Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, has died on the age of 98.

A a lot liked actress who appeared in Love Truly and quite a few different productions has died. Tributes have poured in for Jill Freud, whose outstanding life spanned 98 years sustained by her day by day ritual of pink wine and crisps for lunch, alongside morning tap-dancing classes she continued all through lockdown.

Despatched away to Oxford throughout her childhood, Jill resided with Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis and have become the muse for Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Following two years with the Lewis family, she departed to chase her theatrical goals, along with her closing efficiency being the Downing Avenue housekeeper in Love Truly.

Her daughter Emma, a TV and radio presenter, mentioned: “‘My lovely 98 yr previous mum has taken her closing bow.”, experiences the Mirror.

“After a loving night – the place we knew she was on her manner – surrounded by kids, grandchildren and pizza, she advised us all to f*** off so she may fall asleep. After which she by no means wakened. Her closing phrases have been ‘I like you.'”.

“As a toddler she was evacuated to Oxford and ended up residing with CS Lewis for 3 years… he based mostly the character of Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe on her.”

Emma, who’s wed to Love Truly and 4 Weddings mastermind Richard, went on: “She grew to become an actress/producer and ran two rep theatre firms in Suffolk for 30 years – using 100’s of actors who liked her for her ardour, her care, her shepherd’s pie, her devotion to regional theatre and her dedication to actor’s rights. Her final movie position was because the housekeeper at Downing Avenue in Love Truly.

“She had the identical lunch every single day – a glass of pink wine and a packet of crisps, and through Covid, aged 93, locked up with 3 different Freud gals, she took half in a faucet class each morning.”

Concluding her heartfelt tribute with a pink coronary heart, Emma wrote: “She was 98, mom of 5, grandmother of 17, nice grandmother of seven – she was feisty, outrageous, variety, loving and mischievous. Fortunate previous heaven getting such a blinding newcomer.”

Jill skilled on the famend RADA drama academy, with Lewis footing the invoice, and in 1980 established her personal theatrical enterprise known as Jill Freud and Firm earlier than later being awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the College of East Anglia “for providers to the theatre”. She wed Clement Freud, the tv and radio persona who grew to become one in all Britain’s pioneering movie star cooks and the grandson of Sigmund Freud, in 1950.

Discussing her position because the muse for Lucy in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, she revealed to the Hollywood Reporter in 2014: “It is years since I learn it, however within the stage model I noticed a number of years in the past, Lucy was very likable – it was fairly flattering.”