​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.

Filmography

• 1989She's Been Away — Lillian Huckle
• 1989The Heat of the Day — Nettie
• 1988Madame Sousatzka — Lady Emily
• A Perfect Spy — Miss Dubber
• 1986Murder by the Book — Agatha Christie
• 1986The Wind and the Bomb
• 1986When the Wind Blows — Hilda Bloggs (voice)
• 1984A Passage to India — Mrs. Moore
• Playing Shakespeare
• The Jewel in the Crown — Barbie Batchelor
• 1982Little Eyolf — The Rat Wife
• 1980Caught on a Train — Frau Messner
• 1980Cream in My Coffee — Jean Wilsher
• 1978Edward & Mrs. Simpson — Queen Mary
• Edward and Mrs Simpson — Queen Mary
• 1978Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures — Lady Gee
• 1977Joseph Andrews — Lady Tattle
• Playhouse — Frau Messner
• 1973The Pedestrian — Lady Gray
• 1971Sunday Bloody Sunday — Mrs. Greville
• 19693 Into 2 Won't Go — Belle
• 1968From Chekhov with Love — Olga Knipper
• 1968Secret Ceremony — Hannah
• 1968Tell Me Lies
• 1967Days in the Trees — The Mother
• BBC Play of the Month — The Rat Wife
• 1965The Wars of the Roses — Queen Margaret
• The Wars of the Roses — Queen Margaret, Margaret of Anjou
• The Wednesday Play — The Mother
• Theatre 625 — Rebekka West
• 1963Britain Welcomes the President of India
• 1962The Cherry Orchard — Madame Ranevsky
• 1961Terminus — Mother (uncredited)
• 1959The Nun's Story — Mother Mathilde
• 1942We Serve
• 1941Quiet Wedding — Flower Lisle
• 1940Channel Incident — The Woman
• 1936Rhodes of Africa — Anna Carpenter
• 1935The 39 Steps — The Crofter's Wife Margaret
• 1933The Wandering Jew — Olalla Quintana (Phase IV)

Appearances as themselves (4)

• Six Centuries of Verse — Self - Reader
• 1982Laurence Olivier: A Life — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• 1967October Revolution — Self (narrator)