Actress Lisa Maxwell’s Daughter Dies Suddenly at 27 While at Columbia University
WHO:
US Magazine - Beau Jessep was Lisa Maxwell’s daughter and only child.
NY Post - Beau Jessup was the daughter of British actress Lisa Maxwell.
E! News - Beau Jessup was the daughter of Lisa Maxwell and her husband, Paul Jessup.
E! News - Lisa Maxwell is a British TV actress known for playing Samantha Nixon on *The Bill* and for presenting on *Loose Women*.
WHAT:
US Magazine - Beau Jessep died at age 27.
NY Post - Beau Jessup died at age 27 while studying journalism at Columbia University.
E! News - Columbia Journalism School said it “mourns the loss of Beau Jessup, a student in our M.S. program.”
E! News - Columbia Journalism School extended its “deepest condolences to her family, friends, classmates and all who knew and loved her.”
E! News - No cause of death was shared.
E! News - In an interview with Columbia News, Jessup said her mother’s career inspired her to pursue journalism.
E! News - Jessup said: “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.”
E! News - Jessup said journalism could illuminate people’s experiences, but those experiences could also be “distorted, simplified, or transformed into a public narrative over which the subject had very little control.”
E! News - Maxwell played Samantha Nixon on *The Bill* from 2001 to 2009.
WHERE:
NY Post - Jessup was studying at Columbia University in New York City.
E! News - Jessup was a graduate student at Columbia Journalism School.
WHEN:
E! News - Maxwell played Samantha Nixon on *The Bill* from 2001 to 2009.
HOW:
US Magazine - Columbia Journalism School announced Jessup’s death in a university statement.
E! News - Jessup discussed her interest in journalism in an interview with Columbia News.
(UPDATED November 13, 2026 16:03 UTC)
Beau Jessup, daughter of British actress Lisa Maxwell, has died at 27. The Columbia Journalism School mourned Jessup, a graduate student studying journalism at Columbia University. Her mother’s acting career inspired her journalism ambitions; no cause of death was shared.