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Daily Mail
3 days ago
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- Daily Mail
Kate Beckinsale the pillar of strength: How she supported mother Judy Loe before her passing despite her own health woes and being 'paralysed' with grief after stepfather Roy's death
Kate Beckinsale was a pillar of strength and support for her mother Judy Loe before passing away aged 78. The actress, 51, shared the heartbreaking news that her mother had passed away on July 15 after 'immeasurable suffering', leaving Kate 'paralysed' with grief. Judy's cause of death wasn't confirmed however Kate previously revealed her mother been battling stage four cancer for the last two years. Kate has been by her mother's side throughout her cancer battle and flew to LA from the UK to care for her, despite the Underworld actress dealing with her own health woes and the death of her stepfather Roy. In 2024, Kate sparked concern among her fans as she was hospitalised for six weeks due to 'copiously vomiting blood caused by the stress'. However, she continued to care for her mother, whose death comes just 18 months after the death of Judy's second husband and Kate's stepfather Roy, who died in January 2024. He was hospitalised in Los Angeles in December 2023 after suffering 'a massive stroke' while battling two forms of cancer, which he was diagnosed with in the summer prior. Tragically this wasn't the first time Judy was widowed after the shock death of her first husband Richard Beckinsale in 1979, when Kate was just five-years-old. The actor, famed for his roles in popular shows Rising Damp and Porridge, suddenly passed away on March 19, 1979 at the age of just 31, leaving behind his devastated wife Judy and Kate and her sister Samantha. Sharing the news of her mother's death on Thursday, Kate posted a compilation of snaps as she penned: 'I don't want to post this. I am only posting this because I have had to register my mother's death certificate and it will soon become public record. 'She died the night of July 15th in my arms after immeasurable suffering. I have not picked all the best photos, nor the best videos, because I cannot bear to go through my camera roll yet. 'I deeply apologise to any of her friends who are finding out this way or through the press, but I cannot go through her phone. 'I am paralysed. Jude was the compass of my life, the love of my life, my dearest friend. The vastness and huge heart of this tiny woman has touched so many people who love her dearly. 'She has been brave in so many ways, forgiving sometimes too much, believing in the ultimate good in people and the world is so dim without her that it is nearly impossible to bear.' She finished: 'Mama, I love you so much. This has been my greatest fear since finding my father dead at five and I am here. Oh my Mama.. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I am so sorry.' Kate's father Richard died when she was just five-years-old after he suffered a shock heart attack in his sleep brought on by undiagnosed coronary artery disease. At the time was in fact Judy who was the family's focus then, as she was in hospital recovering from an operation to unblock her fallopian tubes, so she could have more children. When she emerged, she learned her operation had been a success, but that her husband had died. The day before his death, Richard had taken Kate - who was just five-years-old at the time - to visit her mother in hospital and had no physical complaints, simply saying he felt tired. That evening, Richard attended a party for The Two Ronnies before returning to the family home in Sunningdale, Berks. The last anyone heard from the rising comedy star was in a phone call he made to friends before going to bed, in which he noted he had pains in his arms and chest but made light of it. Tragically, Richard never woke up. Kate, who had been looked after by a family friend who came to babysit her at home, has said she still suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder 'from discovering my very young father's almost-dead body as a very young child alone in the night.' It was a trauma which was 'reactivated' by losing Roy all these years later as she revealed a year after his passing that she'll forever be 'haunted' after seeing Roy die. Roy, the director of TV greats including Inspector Morse, Cracker and A Touch Of Frost, came into Kate's life three years after her father died. Alongside a beaming snap of Roy, Kate penned: 'Finding my father's dead body alone in the middle of the night at the age of five shaped my entire life. Seeing my beloved stepfather die a year ago today will haunt me forever. 'It does seem terribly careless to have managed to be present for both deaths and unable to prevent either, the second time trying with every single thing I had. It was not enough. 'In the process of losing my beloved Roy I lost family, friendships, at some points my own health, and all the money I had due to how disgusting the American healthcare system is for those who are not insured. I would do it again. No question. 'I cannot help feeling that I dreadfully failed -but I am trying to console myself today with all the preparation that he did in the last years of his life, how deeply he studied and practised as a Jungian and how thin the veil is between the energy of this life and whatever is next, that some part of him was at peace with it. 'It does feel like a lie I am telling myself to try and feel better, however. Perhaps I am just unfortunately not enlightened enough to sell that to myself over my sense of loss, guilt and failure.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kate Beckinsale Announces Death of Her Mother, British Actress Judy Loe, at 78: 'I Am Paralyzed'
Kate Beckinsale has confirmed the death of her mother, British actress Judy Loe, at the age of 78. Loe died Tuesday, two years after the announcement of her Stage 4 cancer diagnosis. She is best known for her TV work on shows like General Hospital, Inspector Morse, Casualty and Holby City. More from The Hollywood Reporter Netflix Results Draw Share Price Target Hikes, Muted Stock Reaction as Focus Turns to Second Half of Year Ken Loach Joins Edinburgh Film Festival Speaker Lineup Alongside Kevin Macdonald, Nia DaCosta Venice Film Festival Adds Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof to Competition Jury Beckinsale, the only child of Loe and her first husband, actor Richard Beckinsale, posted Friday on Instagram that she was 'paralyzed' by grief. 'I don't want to post this,' she wrote alongside photos of the pair. 'I am only posting this because I have had to register my mother's death certificate and it will soon become public record. She died the night of 15 July in my arms after immeasurable suffering. 'I have not picked all the best photos, nor the best videos, because I cannot bear to go through my camera roll yet. I deeply apologize to any of her friends who are finding out this way or through the press, but I cannot go through her phone.' She continued: 'Jude was the compass of my life, the love of my life, my dearest friend. The vastness and huge heart of this tiny woman has touched so many people who love her dearly. She has been brave in so many ways, forgiving sometimes too much, believing in the ultimate good in people and the world is so dim without her that it is nearly impossible to bear.' Born in 1947, Loe was one of the original castmembers of the musical Hair and later made her TV debut in Ace of Wands in 1970. From 1977-79, she was married to Richard Beckinsale, who played Lennie Godber on the BBC sitcom Porridge and Alan Moore ion the ITV show Rising Damp. He died of a heart attack at age 31 in 1979. 'Mama, I love you so much,' the couple's 51-year-old daughter continued on Instagram. 'This has been my greatest fear since finding my father dead at five and I am here. Oh my Mama … I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I am so sorry.' Last week, Beckinsale, most familiar to audiences for her roles in Pearl Harbor, The Aviator, Emma, Van Helsing, Serendipity and Jolt, posted video footage of her singing at Loe's hospital bedside. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Greatest Needle Drops in Film History The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best
The Guardian
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Judy Loe obituary
The actor Judy Loe, who has died aged 78 after suffering from cancer, graduated from children's television to popular dramas such as The Chief and Casualty – but she never escaped the tag of being the widow of Richard Beckinsale, the British comedy actor remembered for his roles in Rising Damp and Porridge. 'I get annoyed at being continually presented as the brave little widow having a tough time,' she said in 1987, eight years after his death at 31 from a heart attack. Their daughter, Kate Beckinsale, went on to become a Hollywood star, while Loe enjoyed a satisfying career on British television. She was settling down to a new life with the director Roy Battersby and looking to the future when she landed one of her best roles, in the seven-part romantic drama Yesterday's Dreams (1987). As a divorcee in a new relationship with a mechanic, she is still being wooed by her former husband, a high-powered business executive. Her character, Diane, eventually decides to leave the past behind. Loe was also firmly fixed on the future, although she did not forget happy times with Beckinsale and their daughter. 'We have striven towards the right balance, a way of keeping Richard still in our hearts while carrying on with our lives,' she told the TV Times magazine. Just five years after Beckinsale's death, memories were stirred when Loe starred in the writer Roger Marshall's drama serial Missing from Home (1984) as a mother-of-two who has to cope after her husband suddenly disappears. Her television breakthrough had come in 1970 in ITV's children's fantasy drama Ace of Wands, starring Michael MacKenzie as Tarot, a magician who uses his supernatural powers to defeat evil-doers from art thieves to Nazis. She appeared in the first two series as his stage assistant, Lulli (Lillian) Palmer, a telepathic orphan who communicates with him over long distances. Trevor Preston, who later created Out and Fox – hard-hitting dramas featuring those on the wrong side of the law – devised Ace of Wands as a crime series for children, although Loe later said that she regarded her role as largely 'decorative … always having to be rescued by the man'. In the sitcom Goodnight and God Bless (1983), she was Celia Kemp, the neglected wife who hates the TV game shows hosted by her husband, Ronnie (Donald Churchill), who is not so genial off screen. It ran for only one series. A more rewarding comedy role came in Singles (1988-91), in which she played the recently separated Pam, perennially chased by men. Eric Chappell and Jean Warr's sitcom of intrigue, lies and deception also starred Roger Rees (later replaced by Simon Cadell), Susie Blake and Eamon Boland as the other singletons embarking on relationships. For the first three series of the drama The Chief (1990-92), Loe played Elizabeth Stafford, the GP wife of the fictional Eastland force chief constable (Tim Pigott-Smith) battling the Home Office and local bureaucracy. As Commander Kathryn McTiernan, in charge of a multinational crew, she headed the cast in the Sky sci-fi series Space Island One (1998). Then, in 2001-02, she was a semi-regular in the long-running hospital drama Casualty. She played Jan Goddard, who falls for the nurse Charlie Fairhead (Derek Thompson) – 'a strong, intelligent woman' attracted to him 'because of his sincerity and vulnerability', she explained – then becomes his boss as chief executive officer of Holby city hospital. Loe took her character to the Casualty spin-off Holby City (2002-03), with the action focused on surgical wards rather than A&E. Born in Manchester, she was the daughter of Nancy (nee Jones), a department store assistant, and Norman Loe, a travelling sales rep, and attended Urmston grammar school. After gaining a degree in English and drama from Birmingham University, she acted in repertory theatre in Crewe (1968-69) – where she met Beckinsale – then Chester (1969). She made her West End debut with a nine-month run (1969-70) in the counterculture hippy musical Hair. It was able to open at the Shaftesbury theatre in 1968, with the cast completely nude in one scene, after the abolition of theatre censorship in Britain. Pointing out that the daring scene lasted only 10 seconds, Loe told the Liverpool Echo that the production was 'neither titillating nor outrageous', adding: 'In the context of this show, it seems the natural thing to do.' From there, she made her television debut in Ace of Wands, and moved straight to peak-time drama with Man of Straw, starring Derek Jacobi in a 1972 adaptation of Heinrich Mann's early 20th-century novel prophesying German military ambitions. Loe then played Alice Lee in the BBC's 1973 Sunday teatime serialisation of the Walter Scott novel Woodstock, and Princess Mary of Teck (later George V's queen consort) in ITV's 1975 13-part period drama Edward the Seventh. As she became an established character actor, she switched effortlessly from comedy (Robin's Nest, Ripping Yarns and The Upchat Line, all in 1977) to drama (When the Boat Comes In in 1981, The Gentle Touch from 1980 to 1981, and Boon in 1990). Her later television roles included Jessica Rattigan, the manipulative wife of the Anglican bishop in the late-night ITV soap Revelations (1994-95), co-created by Russell T Davies, and Adele Cecil, a singing teacher who comes closer than most women to sweeping John Thaw's Oxford detective off his feet in Inspector Morse (1997-98). Loe's last television appearance came in Fool Me Once (2024). She married Beckinsale in 1977, two years before his death. In 1997, she married Battersby after they had been together for 15 years; he died in 2024. She is survived by Kate and by six stepchildren: the actor Samantha Beckinsale from her first marriage, and Ben, Frank, Anna, Tom and Will with Battersby. Judy (Judith Margaret) Loe, actor, born 6 March 1947; died 15 July 2025
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
How Kate Beckinsale was a pillar of strength to her mother Judy Loe before her passing despite her own health woes and being 'paralysed' with grief after stepfather Roy's death
Kate Beckinsale was a pillar of strength and support for her mother Judy Loe before passing away aged 78. The actress, 51, shared the heartbreaking news that her mother had passed away on July 15 after 'immeasurable suffering', leaving Kate 'paralysed' with grief. Judy's cause of death wasn't confirmed however Kate previously revealed her mother been battling stage four cancer for the last two years. Kate has been by her mother's side throughout her cancer battle and flew to LA from the UK to care for her, despite the Underworld actress dealing with her own health woes and the death of her stepfather Roy. In 2024, Kate sparked concern among her fans as she was hospitalised for six weeks due to 'copiously vomiting blood caused by the stress'. However, she continued to care for her mother, whose death comes just 18 months after the death of Judy's second husband and Kate's stepfather Roy, who died in January 2024. He was hospitalised in Los Angeles in December 2023 after suffering 'a massive stroke' while battling two forms of cancer, which he was diagnosed with in the summer prior. Tragically this wasn't the first time Judy was widowed after the shock death of her first husband Richard Beckinsale in 1979, when Kate was just five-years-old. The actor, famed for his roles in popular shows Rising Damp and Porridge, suddenly passed away on March 19, 1979 at the age of just 31, leaving behind his devastated wife Judy and Kate and her sister Samantha. Sharing the news of her mother's death on Thursday, Kate posted a compilation of snaps as she penned: 'I don't want to post this. I am only posting this because I have had to register my mother's death certificate and it will soon become public record. 'She died the night of July 15th in my arms after immeasurable suffering. I have not picked all the best photos, nor the best videos, because I cannot bear to go through my camera roll yet. 'I deeply apologise to any of her friends who are finding out this way or through the press, but I cannot go through her phone. 'I am paralysed. Jude was the compass of my life, the love of my life, my dearest friend. The vastness and huge heart of this tiny woman has touched so many people who love her dearly. 'She has been brave in so many ways, forgiving sometimes too much, believing in the ultimate good in people and the world is so dim without her that it is nearly impossible to bear.' She finished: 'Mama, I love you so much. This has been my greatest fear since finding my father dead at five and I am here. Oh my Mama.. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I am so sorry.' Kate's father Richard died when she was just five-years-old after he suffered a shock heart attack in his sleep brought on by undiagnosed coronary artery disease. At the time was in fact Judy who was the family's focus then, as she was in hospital recovering from an operation to unblock her fallopian tubes, so she could have more children. When she emerged, she learned her operation had been a success, but that her husband had died. The day before his death, Richard had taken Kate - who was just five-years-old at the time - to visit her mother in hospital and had no physical complaints, simply saying he felt tired. That evening, Richard attended a party for The Two Ronnies before returning to the family home in Sunningdale, Berks. The last anyone heard from the rising comedy star was in a phone call he made to friends before going to bed, in which he noted he had pains in his arms and chest but made light of it. Tragically, Richard never woke up. Kate, who had been looked after by a family friend who came to babysit her at home, has said she still suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder 'from discovering my very young father's almost-dead body as a very young child alone in the night.' It was a trauma which was 'reactivated' by losing Roy all these years later as she revealed a year after his passing that she'll forever be 'haunted' after seeing Roy die. Roy, the director of TV greats including Inspector Morse, Cracker and A Touch Of Frost, came into Kate's life three years after her father died. Alongside a beaming snap of Roy, Kate penned: 'Finding my father's dead body alone in the middle of the night at the age of five shaped my entire life. Seeing my beloved stepfather die a year ago today will haunt me forever. 'It does seem terribly careless to have managed to be present for both deaths and unable to prevent either, the second time trying with every single thing I had. It was not enough. 'In the process of losing my beloved Roy I lost family, friendships, at some points my own health, and all the money I had due to how disgusting the American healthcare system is for those who are not insured. I would do it again. No question. 'I cannot help feeling that I dreadfully failed -but I am trying to console myself today with all the preparation that he did in the last years of his life, how deeply he studied and practised as a Jungian and how thin the veil is between the energy of this life and whatever is next, that some part of him was at peace with it. 'It does feel like a lie I am telling myself to try and feel better, however. Perhaps I am just unfortunately not enlightened enough to sell that to myself over my sense of loss, guilt and failure.'
BreakingNews.ie
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- BreakingNews.ie
Kate Beckinsale announces death of her actress mother
Actress Kate Beckinsale has paid tribute to her 'brave' mother as she announced her death on Instagram. Underworld star Beckinsale said her mother, Judy Loe, died on Tuesday. Advertisement Loe, who was also an actress, had been suffering from cancer. She was married to Kate's father, fellow actor and Porridge star Richard Beckinsale, until his death in 1979. Her second husband, TV director Roy Battersby, died last year. In a post on her Instagram account, Beckinsale said of her mother: 'She died the night of July 15th in my arms after immeasurable suffering. Advertisement 'I am paralysed. Jude was the compass of my life, the love of my life, my dearest friend. 'The vastness and huge heart of this tiny woman has touched so many people who love her dearly. 'She has been brave in so many ways, forgiving sometimes too much, believing in the ultimate good in people and the world is so dim without her that it is nearly impossible to bear.' Well-known names from the acting world left messages of support below Beckinsale's post, including Naomi Watts, Cara Delevingne and Jaime Winstone. Advertisement
