Peggy Ashcroft
personal-info
known-for
Acting
gender
Female
birthday
1907-12-22
place-of-birth
Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
also-known-as
Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
Edith Margaret Emily «Peggy» Ashcroft
Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
biography
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.