Renée Asherson
Known for Acting
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
Theatre of Blood
1973
as Mrs. Maxwell
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
1987
as (archive footage)
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945
as Iras (uncredited)
Pool of London
1951
as Sally
Bed
1995
as Marjorie
Henry V
1944
as Princess Katherine
The Way to the Stars
1945
as Iris Winterton
The Small Back Room
1949
as A.T.S. corporal
The Way Ahead
1944
as Marjorie Gillingham
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1961
as Angela
Malta Story
1953
as Joan Rivers
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as Tsarina
The Magic Box
1952
as Miss Tagg
Harnessing Peacocks
1993
as Louisa Fox
Romance on the Orient Express
1985
as Beatrice
Memento Mori
1992
as Charmian Colston
Time Is My Enemy
1954
as Barbara Everton
Wind of Change
1977
as Lady Birt