Renée Asherson
Acting
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).
TV Shows(18)
Midsomer Murders
Emily Simpson
1997
Brighton Belles
Diana
1993
Performance
Marjorie
1991
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mrs Bartholomew
1989
Lovejoy
Baroness
1986
Time for Murder
Helen, Lady Sibley
1985
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Miss Bunner
1985
Screen Two
Charmian Colston
1985
Love and Marriage
Dame Ursula Ford
1984
Tenko
Sylvia Ashburton
1981
A Man Called Intrepid
Mrs. Wainwright
1979
Disraeli
Lady Bradford
1978
Jubilee 1977
Lady Maude Birt
1977
Victorian Scandals
Miss Robinson
1976
Clayhanger
Miss Gailey
1976
Country Matters
Mother
1972
Strange Report
Miss Dalton
1969
Sunday-Night Play
Fay Driver
1960
Movies(32)
The Others
Old Lady
2001
Grey Owl
1999
Bed
Marjorie
1995
Harnessing Peacocks
Louisa Fox
1993
Running Late
Old Lady
1992
Memento Mori
Charmian Colston
1992
Life After Life
Rosie Treadwell
1990
Norbert Smith: A Life
Lady Norbert
1989
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mrs Bartholomew
1989
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
(archive footage)
1987
Romance on the Orient Express
Beatrice
1985
Edwin
Lady Margaret Truscott
1984
Quiet as a Nun
Mother Ancilla
1978
Wind of Change
Lady Birt
1977
The Portland Millions
Miss Robinson
1976
Miss Nightingale
Fanny Nightingale
1974
Theatre of Blood
Mrs. Maxwell
1973
An Aspidistra in Babylon
Mother
1973
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Anne Johnson
1969
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Tsarina
1966
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Angela
1961
Time Is My Enemy
Barbara Everton
1954
Malta Story
Joan Rivers
1953
The Magic Box
Miss Tagg
1952
Pool of London
Sally
1951
The Cure for Love
Milly Southern
1949
The Small Back Room
A.T.S. corporal
1949
Once a Jolly Swagman
Pat
1949
Caesar and Cleopatra
Iras (uncredited)
1945
The Way to the Stars
Iris Winterton
1945
Henry V
Princess Katherine
1944
The Way Ahead
Marjorie Gillingham
1944