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Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft was an English actress whose career spanned more than six decades, both on screen and stage.
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entertainment · English actress (1907–1991) · stage actor · film actor · actor · also Peggy Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dame Peggy (Edith Margaret Emily) Ashcroft, Ashcroft
Born 22 December 1907 · Died 14 June 1991 · Q230832
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2024· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Peggy Ashcroft
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Society of London Theatre Special Award (1991).
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Died 1991-06-14.
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1989· 1 entry
Won Volpi Cup for Best Actress for She's Been Away (1989).
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for A Passage to India (1986).
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1986).
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for The Jewel in the Crown (1985).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for A Passage to India (1985).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for A Passage to India (1985).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for Cream in My Coffee (1981).
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play (1976).
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A Venice Film Festival Award for She's Been Away (1989), a BAFTA Award for the television play Caught on a Train (1980), a special award from the British Theatre Association for the television play Cream in My Coffee (19
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1973· 1 entry
Persuaded her to appear there from time to time
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1972· 1 entry
In what was by all appearances a conventional West End drawing room comedy, Lloyd George Knew My Father, by William Douglas-Home, but the two stars revealed unexpected depths in their characters
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1963· 1 entry
And 1964 had the critics searching for superlatives
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1958· 1 entry
Peter Hall, who had been appointed to run the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, approached Ashcroft with his plans for a permanent company, with bases in Stratford and London, and a regular, salaried company, presenting a mi
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1956· 1 entry
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1956).
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1955· 1 entry
Won King's Medal of Merit in Gold (1955).
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1951· 1 entry
Returned to the Old Vic, playing Viola in Twelfth Night, the title role in Electra and Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor
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1947· 1 entry
Ashcroft had two long-running successes in a row as the alcoholic Evelyn Holt in Edward, My Son, in the West End and then on Broadway, and the downtrodden Catherine Sloper in The Heiress in 1949
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1944· 1 entry
Playing Ophelia in Hamlet, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the title role in The Duchess of Malfi
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1940· 1 entry
Ashcroft met and married the rising lawyer Jeremy Hutchinson
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1937· 1 entry
For a season of four plays presented by Gielgud at the Queen's Theatre
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1934· 1 entry
And left in 1936, Ashcroft learned from him what Billington calls "the vital importance of discipline, perfectionism, and the idea that the actor, even during passages of emotional stress, must remain a thinking human be
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1933· 2 entries
Made her first film, The Wandering Jew
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On the grounds of Ashcroft's adultery with the director Theodore Komisarjevsky
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1932· 1 entry
Was invited by the Oxford University Dramatic Society to try his hand at directing, in the society's production of Romeo and Juliet
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1930· 1 entry
Ashcroft was cast as Desdemona in a production of Othello at the Savoy Theatre, starring Paul Robeson in the title role
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1929· 1 entry
An extravagantly theatrical production, in which she won praise for the naturalism and truth of her playing
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1927· 1 entry
With London University's Diploma in Dramatic Art
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-12-22.
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