Renée Asherson
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Acting Credits
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
2001
as Old Lady
Grey Owl
1999
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Emily Simpson
Bed
1995
as Marjorie
Harnessing Peacocks
1993
as Louisa Fox
Brighton Belles
1993
as Diana
Running Late
1992
as Old Lady
Memento Mori
1992
as Charmian Colston
Performance
1991
as Marjorie
Life After Life
1990
as Rosie Treadwell
Norbert Smith: A Life
1989
as Lady Norbert
Tom's Midnight Garden
1989
as Mrs Bartholomew
Tom's Midnight Garden
1989
as Mrs Bartholomew
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as (archive footage)
Lovejoy
1986
as Baroness
Romance on the Orient Express
1985
as Beatrice
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985
as Miss Bunner
Screen Two
1985
as Charmian Colston
Time for Murder
1985
as Helen, Lady Sibley
Edwin
1984
as Lady Margaret Truscott
Love and Marriage
1984
as Dame Ursula Ford
Tenko
1981
as Sylvia Ashburton
Goodbye Darling
1981
as Maude Ransome
A Man Called Intrepid
1979
as Mrs. Wainwright
Quiet as a Nun
1978
as Mother Ancilla
Disraeli
1978
as Lady Bradford
Wind of Change
1977
as Lady Birt
Jubilee 1977
1977
as Lady Maude Birt
The Portland Millions
1976
as Miss Robinson
Clayhanger
1976
as Miss Gailey
Victorian Scandals
1976
as Miss Robinson
Miss Nightingale
1974
as Fanny Nightingale
Theatre of Blood
1973
as Mrs. Maxwell
An Aspidistra in Babylon
1973
as Mother
Away from It All
1973
as Evie
Country Matters
1972
as Mother
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
1969
as Anne Johnson
Strange Report
1969
as Miss Dalton
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as Tsarina
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Miss Parks
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961
as Angela
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as Fay Driver
Time Is My Enemy
1954
as Barbara Everton
Malta Story
1953
as Joan Rivers
The Magic Box
1952
as Miss Tagg
Pool of London
1951
as Sally
The Small Back Room
1949
as A.T.S. corporal
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949
as Pat
The Cure for Love
1949
as Milly Southern
The Way to the Stars
1945
as Iris Winterton
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
as Iras (uncredited)
Henry V
1944
as Princess Katherine
The Way Ahead
1944
as Marjorie Gillingham