Peggy Ashcroft
actress
- Birth name:
- Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
- Born:
- 1907-12-22, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
- Died:
- 1991-06-14, Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Academy Award-winning, legendary English actress - who maintained her status in the British acting elite for decades. Made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Almost always on stage, she appeared rarely in film, her first being The Wandering Jew (1933). On stage she was cast in many a Shakespearean role, but in film she usually played sympathetic characters. She won an Oscar for A Passage to India (1984), and her last TV film was She's Been Away (1989). She died from a stroke.
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