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 sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.

Cast

The 39 Steps

The Crofter's Wife Margaret

When the Wind Blows

Hilda Bloggs (voice)

Murder by the Book

Agatha Christie

The Nun's Story

Mother Mathilde

The Pedestrian

Lady Gray

A Passage to India

Mrs. Moore

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Mrs. Greville

Secret Ceremony

Hannah

The Cherry Orchard

Madame Ranevsky

Caught on a Train

Frau Messner

Madame Sousatzka

Lady Emily

Joseph Andrews

Lady Tattle

3 Into 2 Won't Go

Belle

Quiet Wedding

Flower Lisle

Britain Welcomes the President of India

Unknown

The Wars of the Roses

Queen Margaret

Edward & Mrs. Simpson

Queen Mary

Little Eyolf

The Rat Wife

Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

Lady Gee

She's Been Away

Lillian Huckle

Cream in My Coffee

Jean Wilsher

Rhodes of Africa

Anna Carpenter

Tell Me Lies

Unknown

Channel Incident

The Woman

The Wandering Jew

Olalla Quintana (Phase IV)

October Revolution

Self (narrator)

The Heat of the Day

Nettie

We Serve

Unknown

Terminus

Mother (uncredited)

The Wind and the Bomb

Unknown

Laurence Olivier: a life

Self

From Chekhov with Love

Olga Knipper