Beau Jessup Dead: Lisa Maxwell’s Daughter, Columbia Student Was 27

Lisa Maxwell’s family is grieving a tragic loss.

Beau Jessup—the daughter of the British TV actress and her husband Paul Jessup—died at the age of 27, according to Columbia Journalism School, where Jessup was studying as a graduate student.

“Columbia Journalism School mourns the loss of Beau Jessup, a student in our M.S. program,” the school shared in a Nov. 9 statement. “We extend our deepest condolences to her family, friends, classmates and all who knew and loved her.”

No cause of death was shared.

Before her death, Jessup gave an interview with her college paper Columbia News in which she detailed how Maxwell—known for her role as Samantha Nixon on The Bill from 2001 to 2009 and as a presenter on the chat show Loose Women—inspired her to pursue 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 shared in the interview published Nov. 9. “I saw how journalism could illuminate someone’s experiences, but also how those experiences could be distorted, simplified, or transformed into a public narrative over which the subject had very little control.”