Renée Asherson
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).
Born: May 19, 1915
Place of Birth: Kensington, London, England, UK
Known For
Tenko
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
Edwin
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
The Others
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Midsomer Murders
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Lovejoy
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
An advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of the paper in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn.
Disraeli
Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
Norbert Smith: A Life
A mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
Screen Two
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Filmography
as Old Lady
as Emily Simpson
as Marjorie
as Louisa Fox
as Diana
as Old Lady
as Charmian Colston
as Marjorie
as Rosie Treadwell
as Lady Norbert
as Mrs. Bartholemew
as (archive footage)
as Baroness
as Helen, Lady Sibley
as Beatrice
as Miss Bunner
as Charmian Colston
as Lady Margaret Truscott
as Sylvia Ashburton
as Mrs. Wainwright
as Lady Bradford
as Miss Robinson
as Miss Gailey
as Mrs. Maxwell
as Miss Dalton
as Anne Johnson
as Tsarina
as Angela
as Barbara Everton
as Joan Rivers
as Miss Tagg
as Sally
as Milly Southern
as A.T.S. corporal
as Pat
as Iras (uncredited)
as Iris Winterton
as Princess Katherine
as Marjorie Gillingham