Peggy Ashcroft
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1907-12-22 (84 years old)
Deathday
1991-06-14
Place of Birth
Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Also known As
Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
Edith Margaret Emily «Peggy» Ashcroft
Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft
Biography
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
Acting
1935
as The Crofter's Wife Margaret
1986
as Hilda Bloggs (voice)
1986
as Agatha Christie
1959
as Mother Mathilde
1973
as Lady Gray
1984
as Mrs. Moore
1971
as Mrs. Greville
1968
as Hannah
1962
as Madame Ranevsky
1980
as Frau Messner
1988
as Lady Emily
1977
as Lady Tattle
1969
as Belle
1941
as Flower Lisle
1965
as Queen Margaret
1978
as Queen Mary
1982
as The Rat Wife
1978
1989
as Lillian Huckle
1980
as Jean Wilsher
1936
as Anna Carpenter
1968
1940
as The Woman
1933
as Olalla Quintana (Phase IV)
1967
as Self (narrator)
1989
as Nettie
1942
1961
as Mother (uncredited)
1982
as Self
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