Cast & creator
Renée Asherson
Best known for Midsomer Murders, Screen Two, Thirty-Minute Theatre
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).
Also known as: Рене Эшерсон, Dorothy Renée Ascherson
32
film credits
21
television credits
53
1944–2001 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (53)
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Midsomer Murders
Emily Simpson
1997
Screen Two
Charmian Colston
1985
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Miss Parks
1965
Performance
Marjorie
1991
Lovejoy
Baroness
1986Sunday-Night Play
Fay Driver
1960
The Others
Old Lady
2001
Tenko
Sylvia Ashburton
1981
Country Matters
Mother
1972Jubilee 1977
Lady Maude Birt
1977
Strange Report
Miss Dalton
1969
Clayhanger
Miss Gailey
1976
Victorian Scandals
Miss Robinson
1976Love and Marriage
Dame Ursula Ford
1984
Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Miss Bunner
1985Away from It All
Evie
1973
Time for Murder
Helen, Lady Sibley
1985
A Man Called Intrepid
Mrs. Wainwright
1979
Theatre of Blood
Mrs. Maxwell
1973
Henry V
Princess Katherine
1944
Brighton Belles
Diana
1993
The Small Back Room
A.T.S. corporal
1949
Grey Owl
1999
Caesar and Cleopatra
Iras (uncredited)
1945
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Angela
1961
Disraeli
Lady Bradford
1978
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mrs Bartholomew
1989
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Tsarina
1966Goodbye Darling
Maude Ransome
1981
Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
(archive footage)
1987
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Anne Johnson
1969
Pool of London
Sally
1951
Norbert Smith: A Life
Lady Norbert
1989
Romance on the Orient Express
Beatrice
1985
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mrs Bartholomew
1989
Once a Jolly Swagman
Pat
1949
The Way to the Stars
Iris Winterton
1945An Aspidistra in Babylon
Mother
1973
The Way Ahead
Marjorie Gillingham
1944
The Magic Box
Miss Tagg
1952
Bed
Marjorie
1995
Malta Story
Joan Rivers
1953
The Cure for Love
Milly Southern
1949
Memento Mori
Charmian Colston
1992
Time Is My Enemy
Barbara Everton
1954
Edwin
Lady Margaret Truscott
1984
Quiet as a Nun
Mother Ancilla
1978
Running Late
Old Lady
1992Wind of Change
Lady Birt
1977
Life After Life
Rosie Treadwell
1990
Harnessing Peacocks
Louisa Fox
1993Miss Nightingale
Fanny Nightingale
1974
The Portland Millions
Miss Robinson
1976