science | January 10, 2026

Maude Watkins Cause of Death: What Happened to Jason Watkins Daughter?

Jason Watkins and his wife, Clara Francis have two children. On New year’s day 2011, their 2-year-old daughter Maude died of sepsis. He dedicated his 2015 BAFTA award to her campaigns for greater awareness of sepsis.

Jason is a Patron of Child Bereavement UK, a charity that supports children, young people and families when a child grieves or when a child dies.

Jason and his wife have two other children, Bessie and Gilbert.

Watkins’s more prominent television roles have included the vampire leader, William Herrick in Being Human; the crime suspects Jason Builegh in Conviction and many others.

In 2022, Watkins appeared as Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the series: SAS: Rogue Heroes. In 2023, he starred as Ed Collier in the Channel 5 series The Catch, alongside Aneurin Bernard and Poppy Gilbert.