HEARTBROKEN

Actress Reveals Her Mother Died in Her Arms

The actress lost her mother just a year after her stepfather, both of whom she was close to.

Kate Beckinsale has announced that her mother, Judy Loe, died on Tuesday. Loe was 78. In 2024, the Underworld actress, 51, announced that her mother had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She announced Loe’s death with an Instagram post on Thursday. “She died the night of July 15th in my arms after immeasurable suffering,” Beckinsale wrote. “I am paralysed... the world is so dim without her that it is nearly impossible to bear.” Beckinsale shared that her mother’s death had been her “greatest fear” since discovering her father’s body when she was five. Richard Beckinsale, an actor on the BBC sitcom Porridge, died of a heart attack at 31 in 1979. His daughter has been open about the difficulties of the past two years; since the death of her stepfather, former director Roy Battersby, in 2024, she says she has lost “family, friendships, at some points my own health, and all the money I had due to how disgusting the American healthcare system is.” Loe was a TV actress and was part of the original British cast of Hair. Along with her daughter, Loe is survived by her granddaughter, Lily Sheen, and her stepdaughter, Samantha Beckinsale.