Renée Asherson
Known for: 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).
Filmography
Series
Midsomer Murders
Emily Simpson
1997
Series
Screen Two
Charmian Colston
1985
Film
The Others
Old Lady
2001
Series
Performance
Marjorie
1991
Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Miss Parks
1965
Series
Lovejoy
Baroness
1986
Sunday-Night Play
Fay Driver
1960
Series
Tenko
Sylvia Ashburton
1981
Jubilee 1977
Lady Maude Birt
1977
Series
Clayhanger
Miss Gailey
1976
Series
Country Matters
Mother
1972
Love and Marriage
Dame Ursula Ford
1984
Film
Grey Owl
1999
Series
Strange Report
Miss Dalton
1969
Series
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Miss Bunner
1985
Series
A Man Called Intrepid
Mrs. Wainwright
1979
Series
Time for Murder
Helen, Lady Sibley
1985
Film
Theatre of Blood
Mrs. Maxwell
1973
Film
Caesar and Cleopatra
Iras (uncredited)
1945
Series
Victorian Scandals
Miss Robinson
1976
Film
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Angela
1961
Away from It All
Evie
1973
Series
Disraeli
Lady Bradford
1978
Film
Henry V
Princess Katherine
1944
Film
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Tsarina
1966
Series
Brighton Belles
Diana
1993
Film
The Magic Box
Miss Tagg
1952
Series
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mrs Bartholomew
1989
Film
The Small Back Room
A.T.S. corporal
1949
Film
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
(archive footage)
1987
Film
The Way Ahead
Marjorie Gillingham
1944
Film
Pool of London
Sally
1951
Film
Malta Story
Joan Rivers
1953
Film
Edwin
Lady Margaret Truscott
1984
Film
Bed
Marjorie
1995
Goodbye Darling
Maude Ransome
1981
Film
Romance on the Orient Express
Beatrice
1985
An Aspidistra in Babylon
Mother
1973
Film
The Way to the Stars
Iris Winterton
1945
Film
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Anne Johnson
1969
Film
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mrs Bartholomew
1989
Film
Memento Mori
Charmian Colston
1992
Wind of Change
Lady Birt
1977
Film
Norbert Smith: A Life
Lady Norbert
1989
Film
Once a Jolly Swagman
Pat
1949
Film
Harnessing Peacocks
Louisa Fox
1993
Film
The Cure for Love
Milly Southern
1949
Film
The Portland Millions
Miss Robinson
1976
Film
Quiet as a Nun
Mother Ancilla
1978
Film
Life After Life
Rosie Treadwell
1990
Film
Running Late
Old Lady
1992
Film
Time Is My Enemy
Barbara Everton
1954
Miss Nightingale
Fanny Nightingale
1974