Esther Freud Esther Freud Esther Freud (born 2 May 1963) is a British novelist. Born in London, Freud is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and Bernardine Coverley. She is also a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud and niece of Clement Freud. She travelled extensively with her mother as a child, and returned to London at the age of 16 to train as an actress at The Drama Centre. She has worked in television and theatre as both actress and writer. Her first credited television appearance, though inauspicious, was as a terrified diner in "The Bill" in 1984, running frantically out of a
Anna Freud was honoured with a blue plaque, by English Heritage, at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead in London, her home between 1938 and 1982. On 3 December 2014, Freud was the subject of a Google Doodle. The final track on the 2001 eponymous debut album of indie-rock band The National is titled "Anna Freud". The novel "Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story", by Rebecca Coffey was published by She Writes Press in 2014. Anna Freud Anna Freud (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays.