Peggy Ashcroft
Highest Rated: 96% The 39 Steps (1935)
Lowest Rated: 64% Secret Ceremony (1968)
Birthday: Dec 22, 1907
Birthplace: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Peggy Ashcroft was a leading light of London's West End and widely considered one of the century's greatest British stage actresses. Her most famous early role was as Desdemona opposite Paul Robeson's Othello in the early 1940s and her first film was the British Gaumont production "The Wandering Jew" (1933). She was especially memorable as the quiet, emotionally suffocating village wife who briefly shelters the on-the-lam Robert Donat in Alfred Hitchcock's classic "The Thirty Nine Steps" (1935). Along with frequent costar John Gielgud, Ashcroft's leading men during her 65-year career included Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson. She enjoyed her greatest international acclaim and won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her 1984 role in David Lean's film adaptation of the E.M. Forster novel "A Passage to India" and subsequently won renown for the TV miniseries "The Jewel in the Crown" (1984-85).
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Peggy Ashcroft
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She's Been Away | Lillian Huckle (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heat of the Day | Nettie (Character) | - | 1989 |
78% |
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Madame Sousatzka | Lady Emily (Character) | $2.9M | 1988 |
88% |
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When the Wind Blows | Hilda Bloggs (Voice) | - | 1986 |
77% |
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A Passage to India | Mrs. Moore (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Caught on a Train | Frau Messner (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cream in My Coffee | Jean Wilsher (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures | Lady Gee (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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Joseph Andrews | Lady Tattle (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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The Pedestrian | Lady Gray (Character) | - | 1974 |
87% |
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Sunday, Bloody Sunday | Mrs. Greville (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Into Two Won't Go | Belle (Character) | - | 1969 |
64% |
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Secret Ceremony | Hannah (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cherry Orchard | Madame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky (Character) | - | 1962 |
85% |
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The Nun's Story | Mother Mathilde (Africa) (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rhodes | Anna Carpenter (Character) | - | 1936 |
96% |
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The 39 Steps | Margaret, crofter's wife (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wandering Jew | Unknown (Character) | - | 1935 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Perfect Spy | Miss Dubber (Character) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jewel in the Crown | Unknown (Character) | 1984-1985 |