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