Renée Asherson

Renée Asherson was born on May 19, 1915 in UK. Renée Asherson's big-screen debut came with The Way Ahead directed by Carol Reed in 1944. Renée Asherson is known for The Others directed by Alejandro Amenábar, Nicole Kidman stars as Grace and Fionnula Flanagan as Mrs. Mills. The upcoming new movie Renée Asherson plays is The Others which will be released on Aug 10, 2001.

A beautiful and durable actress of screen, stage and television, Asherson was born Renée Ascherson in London (dropping the "c" early in her acting career), the younger daughter of Charles Ascherson, a businessman and bibliophile of German-Jewish extraction, and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman, who wed on 14 December 1910. (Her older sister was Janet Elizabeth Ascherson, born 22 May 1914).Asherson's parents narrowly avoided being passengers on the fateful maiden voyage of the Titanic in 1912, after Charles Ascherson reportedly canceled the passage due to suffering from appendicitis.She played the bride of Laurence Olivier's title character in Henry V (1944) (Henry V (1944)). She later appeared in Once a Jolly Swagman (1949), a speedway drama with Dirk Bogarde. A frequent co-star of the actor Robert Donat, whom she married in 1953. The couple separated in 1956, but were due to reconcile at the time of his untimely death in London on 9th June 1958, aged 53.