Peggy Ashcroft
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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.
Known for
Credits
The 39 Steps (1935)
as The Crofter's Wife Margaret
When the Wind Blows (1986)
as Hilda Bloggs (voice)
The Nun's Story (1959)
as Mother Mathilde
A Passage to India (1984)
as Mrs. Moore
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
as Mrs. Greville
Secret Ceremony (1968)
as Hannah
Joseph Andrews (1977)
as Lady Tattle
Madame Sousatzka (1988)
as Lady Emily
The Wars of the Roses (1965)
as Queen Margaret
Laurence Olivier: A Life (1982)
as Self
Tell Me Lies (1968)
Actor
Cream in My Coffee (1980)
as Jean Wilsher
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
as Queen Mary
Murder by the Book (1986)
as Agatha Christie
The Heat of the Day (1989)
as Nettie
The Pedestrian (1973)
as Lady Gray
Days in the Trees (1967)
as The Mother
She's Been Away (1989)
as Lillian Huckle
Little Eyolf (1982)
as The Rat Wife
Caught on a Train (1980)
as Frau Messner
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978)
as Lady Gee
The Wandering Jew (1933)
as Olalla Quintana (Phase IV)
3 Into 2 Won't Go (1969)
as Belle
October Revolution (1967)
as Self (narrator)
Rhodes of Africa (1936)
as Anna Carpenter
The Cherry Orchard (1962)
as Madame Ranevsky
From Chekhov with Love (1968)
as Olga Knipper
Quiet Wedding (1941)
as Flower Lisle
The Wind and the Bomb (1986)
Actor
We Serve (1942)
Actor
Channel Incident (1940)
as The Woman
Terminus (1961)
as Mother (uncredited)
Britain Welcomes the President of India (1963)
Actor