Renée Asherson
- Acting
- May 19, 1915 · Kensington, London, England, UK
- October 30, 2014
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).
Known for
Filmography
- The Others · Old Lady
- Grey Owl
- Midsomer Murders · Emily Simpson
- Bed · Marjorie
- Harnessing Peacocks · Louisa Fox
- Brighton Belles · Diana
- Running Late · Old Lady
- Memento Mori · Charmian Colston
- Performance · Marjorie
- Life After Life · Rosie Treadwell
- Norbert Smith: A Life · Lady Norbert
- Tom's Midnight Garden · Mrs Bartholomew
- Tom's Midnight Garden · Mrs Bartholomew
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood · (archive footage)
- Lovejoy · Baroness
- Time for Murder · Helen, Lady Sibley
- Romance on the Orient Express · Beatrice
- Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced · Miss Bunner
- Screen Two · Charmian Colston
- Love and Marriage · Dame Ursula Ford
- Edwin · Lady Margaret Truscott
- Tenko · Sylvia Ashburton
- Goodbye Darling · Maude Ransome
- A Man Called Intrepid · Mrs. Wainwright
- Disraeli · Lady Bradford
- Quiet as a Nun · Mother Ancilla
- Wind of Change · Lady Birt
- Jubilee 1977 · Lady Maude Birt
- The Portland Millions · Miss Robinson
- Victorian Scandals · Miss Robinson
- Clayhanger · Miss Gailey
- Miss Nightingale · Fanny Nightingale
- Away from It All · Evie
- Theatre of Blood · Mrs. Maxwell
- An Aspidistra in Babylon · Mother
- Country Matters · Mother
- Strange Report · Miss Dalton
- The Smashing Bird I Used to Know · Anne Johnson
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk · Tsarina
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Miss Parks
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire · Angela
- Sunday-Night Play · Fay Driver
- Time Is My Enemy · Barbara Everton
- Malta Story · Joan Rivers
- The Magic Box · Miss Tagg
- Pool of London · Sally
- The Cure for Love · Milly Southern
- The Small Back Room · A.T.S. corporal
- Once a Jolly Swagman · Pat
- Caesar and Cleopatra · Iras (uncredited)
- The Way to the Stars · Iris Winterton
- Henry V · Princess Katherine
- The Way Ahead · Marjorie Gillingham