Renée Asherson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1915-05-19 (99 years old)

Deathday

2014-10-30

Place of Birth

Kensington, London, England, UK

Renée Asherson

Biography

Dorothy Renée Ascherson, known professionally as Renée Asherson, was an English actress. Much of her theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean plays, appearing at such venues as the Old Vic, the Liverpool Playhouse, and the Westminster Theatre. Her first stage appearance was on 17 October 1935, aged 20, and her first major film appearance was in The Way Ahead (1944). Her last film appearance was in The Others (2001).

Acting

2001

The Others

as Old Lady

1989

Norbert Smith: A Life

as Lady Norbert

1944

Henry V

as Princess Katherine

1951

1973

Theatre of Blood

as Mrs. Maxwell

1944

The Way Ahead

as Marjorie Gillingham

1992

Running Late

as Old Lady

1949

The Small Back Room

as A.T.S. corporal

1953

Malta Story

as Joan Rivers

1974

Miss Nightingale

as Fanny Nightingale

1952

The Magic Box

as Miss Tagg

1954

Time Is My Enemy

as Barbara Everton

1995

Bed

as Marjorie

1993

Harnessing Peacocks

as Louisa Fox

1945

The Way to the Stars

as Iris Winterton

1990

Life After Life

as Rosie Treadwell

1979

A Man Called Intrepid

as Mrs. Wainwright

1984

Edwin

as Lady Margaret Truscott

1992

Memento Mori

as Charmian Colston

1949

The Cure for Love

as Milly Southern

1945

Caesar and Cleopatra

as Iras (uncredited)

1976

The Portland Millions

as Miss Robinson

1978

Quiet as a Nun

as Mother Ancilla

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