Peggy Ashcroft

Peggy Ashcroft was born on Dec 22, 1907 in UK. Peggy Ashcroft's big-screen debut came with The Wandering Jew directed by Maurice Elvey in 1933. Peggy Ashcroft is known for When the Wind Blows directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, Peggy Ashcroft stars as Hilda Bloggs and John Mills as Jim Bloggs. Peggy Ashcroft has got 15 awards and 10 nominations so far. The most recent award Peggy Ashcroft achieved is British Film Institute Awards. The upcoming new movie Peggy Ashcroft plays is The Heat of the Day which will be released on Sep 30, 1990.

Academy Award-winning, legendary English actress - who maintained her status in the British acting elite for decades. Made a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Almost always on stage, she appeared rarely in film, her first being Le juif errant (1933). On stage she was cast in many a Shakespearean role, but in film she usually played sympathetic characters. She won an Oscar for La route des Indes (1984), and her last TV film was Screen One: She's Been Away (1989).  She died from a stroke.