Renée Asherson
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
All Movies (32)
- The Others2001 · as Old Lady
- Grey Owl1999
- Bed1995 · as Marjorie
- Harnessing Peacocks1993 · as Louisa Fox
- Running Late1992 · as Old Lady
- Memento Mori1992 · as Charmian Colston
- Life After Life1990 · as Rosie Treadwell
- Norbert Smith: A Life1989 · as Lady Norbert
- Tom's Midnight Garden1989 · as Mrs Bartholomew
- Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood1987 · as (archive footage)
- Romance on the Orient Express1985 · as Beatrice
- Edwin1984 · as Lady Margaret Truscott
- Quiet as a Nun1978 · as Mother Ancilla
- Wind of Change1977 · as Lady Birt
- The Portland Millions1976 · as Miss Robinson
- Miss Nightingale1974 · as Fanny Nightingale
- Theatre of Blood1973 · as Mrs. Maxwell
- An Aspidistra in Babylon1973 · as Mother
- The Smashing Bird I Used to Know1969 · as Anne Johnson
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk1966 · as Tsarina
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire1961 · as Angela
- Time Is My Enemy1954 · as Barbara Everton
- Malta Story1953 · as Joan Rivers
- The Magic Box1952 · as Miss Tagg
- Pool of London1951 · as Sally
- The Cure for Love1949 · as Milly Southern
- The Small Back Room1949 · as A.T.S. corporal
- Once a Jolly Swagman1949 · as Pat
- Caesar and Cleopatra1945 · as Iras (uncredited)
- The Way to the Stars1945 · as Iris Winterton
- Henry V1944 · as Princess Katherine
- The Way Ahead1944 · as Marjorie Gillingham
All TV Shows (20)
- Midsomer Murders1997 · as Emily Simpson
- Brighton Belles1993 · as Diana
- Performance1991 · as Marjorie
- Tom's Midnight Garden1989 · as Mrs Bartholomew
- Lovejoy1986 · as Baroness
- Time for Murder1985 · as Helen, Lady Sibley
- Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced1985 · as Miss Bunner
- Screen Two1985 · as Charmian Colston
- Love and Marriage1984 · as Dame Ursula Ford
- Tenko1981 · as Sylvia Ashburton
- A Man Called Intrepid1979 · as Mrs. Wainwright
- Disraeli1978 · as Lady Bradford
- Jubilee 19771977 · as Lady Maude Birt
- Victorian Scandals1976 · as Miss Robinson
- Clayhanger1976 · as Miss Gailey
- Away from It All1973 · as Evie
- Country Matters1972 · as Mother
- Strange Report1969 · as Miss Dalton
- Thirty-Minute Theatre1965 · as Miss Parks
- Sunday-Night Play1960 · as Fay Driver