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Peggy Ashcroft. 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 60 years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
Peggy Ashcroft. Actress: A Passage to India. 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). On stage she was cast in many a Shakespearean role, but in film she ...
- Actress
- June 14, 1991
- December 22, 1907
Jun 17, 2024 · Peggy Ashcroft (born December 22, 1907, Croydon, London, England—died June 14, 1991, London) was an English stage actress who appeared in both classic and modern plays. After graduation from London’s Central School of Dramatic Art, Ashcroft made her debut as Margaret in the Birmingham Repertory’s production of Dear Brutus (1926).
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Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991) Peggy Ashcroft. 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) .
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- Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
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- Hampstead, London, England, UK
Ashcroft, Peggy (1907–1991) One of the finest English actresses of her day, who won every major award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the film A Passage to India. Born Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in the London suburb of Croydon, Surrey, England, on December 22, 1907; died in England on June 14, 1991; daughter of William Worsley ...
Jun 15, 1991 · Defining her art in "Peggy Ashcroft," a 1988 biography, the critic Michael Billington cited her ear for language, her emotional identification with characters and avoidance of vulgarity and ...
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Jun 15, 1991 · Peggy can do no wrong, has never done any wrong, will do no wrong.” Born Dec. 22, 1907, Dame Peggy was the daughter of real estate broker William Worsley Ashcroft and amateur actress Violet Maud ...
