Dame Peggy Ashcroft

Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
1907 - 1991
British born Croydon

Height 5' 4½" (1.64 m) . Academy Award-winning, legendary English actress - who maintained her status in the British acting elite for decades. Made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Almost always on stage, she appeared rarely in film, her first being The Wandering Jew (1933/I). On stage she was cast in many a Shakespearean role, but in film she usually played sympathetic characters. She won an Oscar for A Passage to India (1984), and her last TV film was She's Been Away (1989) (TV). She died from a stroke. Lord Jeremy Hutchinson (1940 - 1965) (divorced) 1 son, 1 daughter, Theodor Komisarjevsky (1934 - ?) (divorced), Rupert Hart-Davis (1929 - ?) (divorced)

"The Wars of the Roses" (1989) , The Heat of the Day (1989) , She's Been Away (1989) , Madame Sousatzka (1988) , "A Perfect Spy" (1987) , When the Wind Blows (1986) , Murder by the Book (1986) , A Passage to India (1984) , "The Jewel in the Crown" (1984) , "Play of the Month" (1982) , The Cherry Orchard (1971) , Cream in My Coffee (1980) , Caught on a Train (1980) , "Edward & Mrs. Simpson" (1978) , Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) , Joseph Andrews (1977) , Fußgänger, Der (1973) , Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) , Three Into Two Won't Go (1969) , Secret Ceremony (1968) , Tell Me Lies (1968) , From Chekhov with Love (1968) , Days in the Trees (1967) , Rosmersholm (1965) , "War of the Roses" (1965) , The Nun's Story (1959) , Quiet Wedding (1941) , Channel Incident (1940) , The Tempest (1939) , Twelfth Night (1939) , A People Eternal (1939) , Rhodes of Africa (1936) , The 39 Steps (1935) , The Wandering Jew (1933/I)