Background
ASHCROFT, Dame Peggy Dame Edith Margaret Emily Hutchinson was born on December 22, 1907. Daughter of William Worsley Ashcroft and Violet Maud Bemheim.
ASHCROFT, Dame Peggy Dame Edith Margaret Emily Hutchinson was born on December 22, 1907. Daughter of William Worsley Ashcroft and Violet Maud Bemheim.
Croydon and Central School of Speech Training, Albert Hall, London.
Constance Neville (She Stoops to Conquer), Naomi (Jew Suss) 1929, Desdemona (with Paul Robeson) 1930, Irina (The Three Sisters) 1937-1938, Cecily Cardew (The Importance of Being Ernest) 1939-1940, 1942, Catherine (The Dark River) 1943, Haymarket Repertory Season 1944-1945, Evelyn Holt (Edward My Son) 1947, Catherine Sloper (The Heiress) 1949, Hester Collyer (The Deep Blue Sea) 1952, Hedda Gabler 1954, Miss Madrigal (The Chalk Garden), Shen Te (The Good Woman of Setzuan) 1956, Rebecca West (Rosmersholm) 1959, title role Duchess of Malfi 1961, Madame Ranevsky (The Cherry Orchard) 1962, B.A.F.T.A. Special; Cream in my Coffee, Caught on a Train 1980, The Jewel in the Crown 1984, She’s Been Away 1989, The Heat of the Day 1989.Director RSC since 1968. Has appeared in London in The Seagull 1964, Days in the Trees 1966, Ghosts 1967, Delicate Balance 1968, Landscape 1969, Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII (Stratford-on-Avon), The Plebeians 1970, The Lovers of Viome (Evening Standard Best Actress.
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Stratford and London 1960-1964.
Married 1st Rupert Hart-Davis in 1929 (dissolved). Married 2nd Theodore Komisarjevsky in 1934 (dissolved). Married 3rd Jeremy Hutchinson in 1940 (dissolved in 1966).