Terence Beesley obit

 

Ashley Jensen 'devastated' after husband Terence Beesley's sudden death

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Ashley Jensen has been left "devastated" after the sudden death of her husband Terence Beesley.

The 60-year-old died late last month at their home in Somerset. The information was only made public on Sunday.

Beesley, who had starred in Victoria, married Jensen in 2007 after meeting on the set of a play. They have an eight-year-old son together.

Ugly Betty and Extras actress Jensen is currently starring in BBC drama Love, Lies and Records.

A spokesman for Jensen said: "Ashley is devastated and respectfully asks for privacy for her, her young child and the family at this extremely sad and difficult time."

Beesley was perhaps best known for playing Buxton in ITV's Victoria and General Bennigsen in BBC One's War and Peace.

He had also been the first actor to star as Derek Branning in EastEnders and also appeared in film London Has Fallen in 2016.

His representative said: "It is with great sadness that I can confirm that Terence passed away at the end of November."

The couple met in 1999 when they appeared in a London theatre production of King Lear, marrying eight years later while Jensen was filming in America.

Beesley was an actor and writer. He was born in London to Irish parents and attended St Marylebone Grammar School before training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1981 to 1984. Beesley was married to Ashley Jensen from 2007 until his death in 2017. They met while acting in Tom Courtenay's King Lear at the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester. They had one son, Francis Jonathan Beesley, born in 2009. Beesley committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning at his Somerset home on 30th November, 2017.

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