Peggy Ashcroft

Biography

Dame Peggy Ashcroft DBE, born Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, was an acclaimed Academy Award-winning English actress.

One of her earliest film roles was the minor part of the crofter's wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935).

She died in London, following a stroke at the age of 83.

With Hitchcock...

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