Emma Freud Emma Freud Emma Vallencey Freud (born 25 January 1962) is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator. Emma Freud was born in London on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud and June Flewett, known as the actress Jill Freud. She is the great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Her younger brother is Matthew Freud, the ex-husband of Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's daughter. Painter Lucian Freud was her uncle. Her father's family were Jewish refugees. Freud was educated in London at the all-female Queen's College school and is an alumna of Royal Holloway College. In
Freud family Freud family The family of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psychoanalysis, lived in Austria and Germany until the 1930s before emigrating to England, Canada and the United States. Several of Freud's descendants have become well known in different fields. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was born to Jewish Galician parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the then Austrian Empire (now Příbor in the Czech Republic). He was the eldest child of Jacob Freud (1815–1896), a wool merchant, and his third wife Amalia Nathansohn (1835–1930). Jacob Freud was born in Tysmenitz, Galicia (now Tysmenytsia, in Ukraine), the eldest child of Schlomo