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).
Filmography
The Others
2001
as Old Lady
Grey Owl
1999
Bed
1995
as Marjorie
Harnessing Peacocks
1993
as Louisa Fox
Running Late
1992
as Old Lady
Memento Mori
1992
as Charmian Colston
Life After Life
1990
as Rosie Treadwell
Norbert Smith: A Life
1989
as Lady Norbert
Tom's Midnight Garden
1989
as Mrs Bartholomew
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as (archive footage)
Romance on the Orient Express
1985
as Beatrice
Edwin
1984
as Lady Margaret Truscott
Quiet as a Nun
1978
as Mother Ancilla
- No poster
Wind of Change
1977
as Lady Birt
The Portland Millions
1976
as Miss Robinson
- No poster
Miss Nightingale
1974
as Fanny Nightingale
Theatre of Blood
1973
as Mrs. Maxwell
- No poster
An Aspidistra in Babylon
1973
as Mother
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
1969
as Anne Johnson
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as Tsarina
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961
as Angela
Time Is My Enemy
1954
as Barbara Everton
Malta Story
1953
as Joan Rivers
The Magic Box
1952
as Miss Tagg