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Peggy Ashcroft
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British actress (1907-1991)
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Peggy Ashcroft was a British actress whose professional career spanned from 1926 to 1989. She was recognized in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actress collection and received an Oscar in 1985. Her work has been associated with theatre, spoken word, and poetry. Ashcroft was the author of the book *A Collection of Favourite Poems*.
Born in 1907, she passed away in 1991. She had two children. In a 1984 interview, she remarked, "I think I'm going to be overexposed after total anonymity." Upon receiving her award in 1985, she stated, "I never thought I was subject matter for an Oscar. How wonderful to be given it, I’ve been killed with kindness."
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- A Collection of Favourite Poems
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 241
- Total plays
- 784
Tags
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991) was an English actress whose career spanned 48 years. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Peggy+Ashcroft">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,994x
- Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat
· 2021 · cited 7,550x
- Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes
· 2015 · cited 6,293x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,185x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,699x
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Quotes
- “I think I'm going to be overexposed after total anonymity.”
- “Peggy joked in an interview in 1984.”
- “I never thought I was subject matter for an Oscar. How wonderful to be given it, I’ve been killed with kindness.”
- “Peggy while receiving oscar award in 1985.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1907-12-22 ) 22 December 1907, Croydon , Surrey , England
- Died
- 14 June 1991 (1991-06-14) (aged 83), Hampstead , London , England
- Alma mater
- Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1929–1991
- Spouses
- Rupert Hart-Davis ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1929 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1933 ) Theodore Komisarjevsky ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1934 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1936 ) Jeremy Hutchinson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1940 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1965 )
- Relatives
- Emily Loizeau (granddaughter)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Emily
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Surrey
- Place of death
- London
- Spouse
- Theodore Komisarjevsky
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Field of work
- acting
- Image
- Peggy Ashcroft 1962c (crop-zoom).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
Show 12 more facts
- date of birth
- 1907-01-01
- date of death
- 1991-01-01
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Peggy Ashcroft
- nominated for
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
- name in native language
- Peggy Ashcroft
- birth name
- Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
- end of work period
- 1989-00-00
- unmarried partner
- J. B. Priestley
- start of work period
- 1926-00-00
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Edith Margaret Emily "Peggy" Ashcroft DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991) was an English actress whose career spanned more than six decades, both on screen and stage.
Born to a middle-class family in Croydon, Surrey, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition. She was working in smaller theatres even before graduating from drama school, and within two years she was starring in the West End. Ashcroft maintained her leading place in British theatre for the next 50 years. Always attracted by the ideals of permanent theatrical ensembles, she did much of her work for the Old Vic in the early 1930s, John Gielgud's companies in the 1930s and 1940s, the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and its successor the Royal Shakespeare Company from the 1950s, and the National Theatre from the 1970s.
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