Renée Asherson
Born: 1915-05-19 in Kensington, London, England, UK
Died: 2014-10-30
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2001
- The Others as Old Lady
1999
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Emily Simpson
1995
- Bed as Marjorie
1993
- Harnessing Peacocks as Louisa Fox
- Brighton Belles as Diana
1992
- Running Late as Old Lady
- Memento Mori as Charmian Colston
1991
- Performance as Marjorie
1990
- Life After Life as Rosie Treadwell
1989
- Tom's Midnight Garden as Mrs. Bartholemew
- Norbert Smith: A Life as Lady Norbert
1987
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as (archive footage)
1986
- Lovejoy as Baroness
1985
- Screen Two as Charmian Colston
- Romance on the Orient Express as Beatrice
- Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced as Miss Bunner
- Time for Murder as Helen, Lady Sibley
1984
- Edwin as Lady Margaret Truscott
1981
- Tenko as Sylvia Ashburton
1979
- A Man Called Intrepid as Mrs. Wainwright
1978
- Disraeli as Lady Bradford
- Quiet as a Nun as Mother Ancilla
1977
- Wind of Change as Lady Birt
1976
- The Portland Millions as Miss Robinson
- Clayhanger as Miss Gailey
- Victorian Scandals as Miss Robinson
1974
- Miss Nightingale as Fanny Nightingale
1973
- Theatre of Blood as Mrs. Maxwell
1969
- The Smashing Bird I Used to Know as Anne Johnson
- Strange Report as Miss Dalton
1966
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk as Tsarina
1961
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire as Angela
1960
- Sunday-Night Play as Fay Driver
1954
- Time Is My Enemy as Barbara Everton
1953
- Malta Story as Joan Rivers
1952
- The Magic Box as Miss Tagg
1951
- Pool of London as Sally
1949
- The Small Back Room as A.T.S. corporal
- The Cure for Love as Milly Southern
- Once a Jolly Swagman as Pat
1945
- The Way to the Stars as Iris Winterton
- Caesar and Cleopatra as Iras (uncredited)
1944
- The Way Ahead as Marjorie Gillingham
- Henry V as Princess Katherine