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Jane Asher
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress and author. She achieved early fame as a child actress. She has worked extensively in film and television.
Asher has appeared in television shows and films such as Deep End (1970), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Alfie (1966), The Mistress, Crossroads, Death at a Funeral (2007), and The Old Guys. She also appeared in two episodes of the 1950s TV series The Buccaneers alongside Robert Shaw. She was Paul McCartney's girlfriend from 1963 to 1968.
Asher has been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the film Deep End and the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for television performances in A Voyage Round My Father (1982) and Love Is Old, Love Is New (1982).
Asher was born in London, the middle of three children born to Richard and Margaret Asher, née Eliot. Her father was a consultant in blood and mental diseases at the Central Middlesex Hospital, as well as being a broadcaster and the author of notable medical articles. Her mother was a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Asher was educated at Miss Lambert's PNEU School for Girls at Paddington, North Bridge House School, and then at Queen's College in Harley Street, London. Asher's elder brother is record producer and manager Peter Asher, who began his career as Peter of Peter and Gordon.
Asher was a child actress who appeared in the 1952 film Mandy and the 1955 science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment. She also played the title role in dramatised versions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass in 1958 for Argo Records. In 1961 she co-starred in The Greengage Summer, which was released in the United States as Loss of Innocence. She also appeared in the 1962 film and Disney TV programme, The Prince and the Pauper. Her British TV appearances included three episodes (1956–1958) of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood and as a panellist on the BBC's Juke Box Jury.
In July 1962, Asher appeared in an Out of This World episode called "Cold Equations", playing a teenage stowaway on a space ship. Its captain, played by Peter Wyngarde, is ordered to jettison her into space, and she pleads for her life, but has to come to terms with her imminent death. She then dies calmly.
Asher appeared in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death (1964) with Vincent Price, in Alfie opposite Michael Caine in 1966, and in Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End (1970) with John Moulder Brown.[citation needed]
Having played Alice herself as an 11-year-old child in the audio recordings of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in 1958, Asher played the real Alice's (Alice Liddell) mother, Lorina Liddell, in the 1985 Dennis Potter film Dreamchild alongside Coral Browne (Alice Hargreaves), Ian Holm (Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson), Peter Gallagher, and Amelia Shankley (young Alice).[citation needed]
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Jane Asher
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress and author. She achieved early fame as a child actress. She has worked extensively in film and television.
Asher has appeared in television shows and films such as Deep End (1970), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Alfie (1966), The Mistress, Crossroads, Death at a Funeral (2007), and The Old Guys. She also appeared in two episodes of the 1950s TV series The Buccaneers alongside Robert Shaw. She was Paul McCartney's girlfriend from 1963 to 1968.
Asher has been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the film Deep End and the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for television performances in A Voyage Round My Father (1982) and Love Is Old, Love Is New (1982).
Asher was born in London, the middle of three children born to Richard and Margaret Asher, née Eliot. Her father was a consultant in blood and mental diseases at the Central Middlesex Hospital, as well as being a broadcaster and the author of notable medical articles. Her mother was a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Asher was educated at Miss Lambert's PNEU School for Girls at Paddington, North Bridge House School, and then at Queen's College in Harley Street, London. Asher's elder brother is record producer and manager Peter Asher, who began his career as Peter of Peter and Gordon.
Asher was a child actress who appeared in the 1952 film Mandy and the 1955 science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment. She also played the title role in dramatised versions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass in 1958 for Argo Records. In 1961 she co-starred in The Greengage Summer, which was released in the United States as Loss of Innocence. She also appeared in the 1962 film and Disney TV programme, The Prince and the Pauper. Her British TV appearances included three episodes (1956–1958) of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood and as a panellist on the BBC's Juke Box Jury.
In July 1962, Asher appeared in an Out of This World episode called "Cold Equations", playing a teenage stowaway on a space ship. Its captain, played by Peter Wyngarde, is ordered to jettison her into space, and she pleads for her life, but has to come to terms with her imminent death. She then dies calmly.
Asher appeared in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death (1964) with Vincent Price, in Alfie opposite Michael Caine in 1966, and in Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End (1970) with John Moulder Brown.[citation needed]
Having played Alice herself as an 11-year-old child in the audio recordings of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass in 1958, Asher played the real Alice's (Alice Liddell) mother, Lorina Liddell, in the 1985 Dennis Potter film Dreamchild alongside Coral Browne (Alice Hargreaves), Ian Holm (Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson), Peter Gallagher, and Amelia Shankley (young Alice).[citation needed]