Beau Jessup, the daughter of British actress and TV personality Lisa Maxwell, has died. She was 27.
Columbia University announced Jessup’s death on Wednesday, Nov. 11, in a post on Instagram. She was a student in the school’s Master of Science in Journalism program and was about six months away from graduating in May 2027. “We extend our deepest condolences to her family, friends, classmates and all who knew and loved her,” the university said in a statement.
Columbia, which described her death as unexpected, did not disclose a cause of death. Her mother, Lisa Maxwell, is best known in the U.K. for playing Detective Inspector Samantha Nixon on the long-running police drama The Bill and as a panelist on the daytime talk show Loose Women.
Maxwell and her husband, Paul Jessup, welcomed their daughter in October 1999. The family has not publicly commented on her death. Jessup made headlines of her own as a teenager. In 2016, she launched SpecialName, a website that helped Chinese parents choose English names for their children.
The business reportedly earned her more than $60,000 while she was still a student. She went on to study social anthropology at the London School of Economics and writing for performance at the University of Cambridge, where she wrote her first play, The Sandbag. Along with its announcement, Columbia released an unpublished interview Jessup gave last month for the school’s “Notebook” series. In it, she explained that growing up with a famous mother shaped her interest in journalism.
“As the daughter of a television actress, I grew up with an unusual awareness of the distance between people’s lives and the stories told about them,” she said. “I was curious, from quite a young age, about who gets to tell people’s stories, and what happens when those stories enter the public domain.”
Jessup said she was especially drawn to cultural journalism, and after graduating, she hoped to pursue “reporting on people, culture, and social questions.”“I’m particularly drawn to journalism for its power and immediacy,” she said.
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