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    Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned...
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  • in competitive acting categories are Judi Dench, Virginia McKenna, Peggy Ashcroft, Nigel Hawthorne, Julie Walters, Albert Finney, Helen Mirren, and Mark...
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  • when she withdrew her accusation in court. Judy Davis as Adela Quested Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore Victor Banerjee as Dr. Aziz Ahmed James Fox as Richard...
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  • Awards 1979: Best Actress in a Musical – The King and I English actress Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991) completed the triple crown in 1986. She won one competitive...
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  • novel of the same name. The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters and was scored by Roger Waters. The film...
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  • Gilliatt, and starring Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head and Peggy Ashcroft. It tells the story of a free-spirited young bisexual artist (played...
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    in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s...
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  • Shakespeare Theatre. The production starred David Warner as Henry VI, Peggy Ashcroft as Margaret of Anjou, Donald Sinden as the Duke of York, Paul Hardwick...
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  • "Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures" (1978), which starred Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine. In 1979 she played Nurse Sally in the mini-series Testament...
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  • as Madame Sousatzka Navin Chowdhry as Manek Shabana Azmi as Sushila Peggy Ashcroft as Lady Emily Robert Rietty as Leo Milev Twiggy as Jenny Leigh Lawson...
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    blank verse" and even Peggy Ashcroft's superb performance as Desdemona was not enough to save the production from failure. Ashcroft's notices were laudatory...
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  • poet Peggy Wehmeyer, American journalist Peggy Ahern (1917–2012), American child actress Peggy Allenby (1896–1966), American actress Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991)...
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    Central School of Speech and Drama. She was also inspired by seeing Peggy Ashcroft play Cleopatra on stage, which she later said "changed my life". She...
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  • Zinnemann and starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, and Peggy Ashcroft. The screenplay was written by Robert Anderson, based on the popular...
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    address, in which the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the actress Peggy Ashcroft as well as the scientist J. D. Bernal and Peter Medawar resided. The...
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    Vishkower Yentl Alfre Woodard Beatrice 'GeeChee' Cross Creek 1984 (57th) Peggy Ashcroft ‡ Mrs. Moore A Passage to India Glenn Close Iris Gaines The Natural...
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  • Hari was caught in an impossible position, between England and India. Peggy Ashcroft as Barbara Batchelor Janet Henfrey as Edwina Crane Derrick Branche as...
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    production of Romeo and Juliet by the society, featuring two guest stars: Peggy Ashcroft as Juliet and Edith Evans as the Nurse. The rest of the cast were students...
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  • David Waller as Stanley Baldwin Nigel Hawthorne as Walter Monckton Dame Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Mary Marius Goring as King George V Cherie Lunghi as Lady Thelma...
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    (1980) Mona Washbourne (1981) Jessica Lange (1982) Linda Hunt (1983) Peggy Ashcroft (1984) Anjelica Huston (1985) Dianne Wiest (1986) Kathy Baker (1987)...
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  • Lords Neil Ashcroft (1938–2021), condensed matter physicist Peggy Ashcroft, English actress Ray Ashcroft, English actor Richard Ashcroft, English musician...
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    with Peggy Ashcroft as Juliet at The Old Vic, London and Sadler's Wells Theatre, London The School for Scandal (1933) as Trip with Alastair Sim, Peggy Ashcroft...
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    director saw one success after another. He drew from such players as Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Wendy Hiller, Mai Zetterling, Robert Morley, Brenda...
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  • at the Aldwych Theatre in 1981. The same year, she was understudy to Peggy Ashcroft as the Countess in Trevor Nunn's Royal Shakespeare Company production...
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    Klimov (1987) Graham Greene / Vanessa Redgrave / Anthony Smith (1988) Peggy Ashcroft / Gérard Depardieu / David Francis (1989) Derek Jarman / Krzysztof Kieślowski...
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    Walters Billie Whitelaw Kate Winslet 2 nominations Rosanna Arquette Peggy Ashcroft Kathy Bates Brenda Blethyn Emily Blunt Helena Bonham Carter Toni Collette...
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    (1980) Mona Washbourne (1981) Jessica Lange (1982) Linda Hunt (1983) Peggy Ashcroft (1984) Anjelica Huston (1985) Dianne Wiest (1986) Kathy Baker (1987)...
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    (1980) Mona Washbourne (1981) Jessica Lange (1982) Linda Hunt (1983) Peggy Ashcroft (1984) Anjelica Huston (1985) Dianne Wiest (1986) Kathy Baker (1987)...
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    (1980) Mona Washbourne (1981) Jessica Lange (1982) Linda Hunt (1983) Peggy Ashcroft (1984) Anjelica Huston (1985) Dianne Wiest (1986) Kathy Baker (1987)...
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    damage in the London Blitz in 1941) with a memorable production starring Peggy Ashcroft as Viola. Gielgud directed a production at the Shakespeare Memorial...
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