Jane Asher

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Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946) is an English actress, author, and entrepreneur who rose to prominence as a child actor and has spent extensive time in film and television throughout her career. Asher has appeared on television shows and films including Deep End, The Masque of the Red Death, Alfie, The Mistress, Crossroads, Death at a Funeral, and The Old Guys.

In addition to producing specialty cakes and kitchenware, she is also known for releasing three best-selling books.

She was a central figure in 1960s British cinema and arts culture, and she was well-known as Beatle Paul McCartney's girlfriend and muse.

Early life

Asher was born in London, the middle of three children born to Richard and Margaret Asher, née Eliot. Her father, in addition to being a broadcaster and author of influential medical papers, was a consultant in blood and mental disorders at the Central Middlesex Hospital. Asher's mother was a professor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Asher was educated at North Bridge House School and Miss Lambert's PNEU School for Girls in Paddington, then at Queen's College in Harley Street, London. Peter Asher, Asher's older brother, was a member of the Asher family, who began his career as Peter and Gordon.

Personal life

At the Royal Albert Hall in London on April 18, 1963, the 17-year-old Asher interviewed the Beatles and began a five-year friendship with Paul McCartney. McCartney took up residence at Asher's Wimpole Street town house in December 1963 and remained there until the couple moved to McCartney's own home in St John's Wood, 1966. "You Will Love Him," "You Won't See Me," "What You're Doing," "For No One," and "We Can Work It Out were among McCartney's many Beatles songs inspired by her. On Christmas Day 1967, McCartney and Asher announced that they were engaged to marry, and Asher accompanied the Beatles and their respective families to Rishikesh, Arizona, to attend an advanced Transcendental Meditation session with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Asher returned from an acting role in Bristol earlier than expected and discovered McCartney in bed with Francie Schwartz in mid 1968. "Paul carried this American girl home," a fan of Paul's Cavendish Avenue home later said. [And a little while later] — it was Jane. She's been back... a lot earlier than she had expected. Jane came inside the house. "She stormed out again and pushed away a little later." Margaret Asher hurled her daughter's possessions to Cavendish Avenue a few weeks later.

Asher revealed publicly to the BBC on August 20th that her relationship to McCartney had been canceled, surprising many people, including McCartney himself, who would soon begin dating Linda Eastman, whom she would marry in 1969. McCartney was at his father's house with Schwartz by his side at the time of Asher's announcement. Despite Schwartz's confirmation that Asher did see them in bed together, she insists she was not the sole reason for the breakup and that the couple were on the verge of separation ahead of Asher's walking in. According to author Hunter Davies and Barry Miles, the couple had a long history, one of which was that McCartney wanted Asher to give up her acting career after she married, which Asher refused to do. McCartney's heroin use and frequent womanizing were two other issues in the marriage. Asher returned to London after a five-month acting tour of the United States in May 1967, she found McCartney to be completely different, confiding in Davies that McCartney had "changed so much." He was on LSD, which I hadn't disclosed at the time, which I had never known about. I was jealous of all the spiritual experiences he'd had with John. All day long, there were fifteen people throwing. The house had been updated and was full of stuff I didn't know about," I said.

Asher and John Lennon's former wife Cynthia attended the 1970 London premiere of Beatles' last film, Let It Be, although the former Beatles did not attend.

Asher encountered illustrator Gerald Scarfe in 1971. They married in 1981 and had three children.

Asher is not keen on discussing her friendship with McCartney. In 2004, she said, "I've been happily married for 30-something years." It's insulting."

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Acting career

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. British TV appearances included three episodes (1956–1958) of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood and as a panelist on the BBC's Juke Box Jury.

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.

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).

On television, she guest-starred in episodes of the British television comedy series The Goodies, The Stone Tape, Wicked Women, and Rumpole of the Bailey, as Celia Ryder in the 1981 Granada Television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, A Voyage Round My Father opposite Laurence Olivier, The Mistress (1985–87), and as Faith Ashley in Wish Me Luck (three seasons from 1987–89).

In 1994, she portrayed the Doctor Who companion Susan Foreman in a BBC Radio 4 comedy drama Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? Another notable radio broadcast was in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 2002, in the episode "The Peculiar Persecution of Mr John Vincent Harden".

In 2003, she appeared in the revived ITV soap, Crossroads where she played the hotel's owner, Angel Sampson. After the soap was axed, Asher apologised to Crossroads fans for the way the 2003 series went.

In 2004, she starred in Festen at the Arts Theatre. In 2005, she starred in The World's Biggest Diamond, by Gregory Motton, at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2006, Asher starred in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda, which aired on the British digital television station BBC Four. In 2007, she portrayed the widow Sandra in the Frank Oz film Death at a Funeral. The same year Asher appeared in the BBC medical drama, Holby City as Lady Byrne. In October 2007, she played Andrea Yates in The Sarah Jane Adventures, in the episode "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?" Asher co-starred in the 2008 ITV drama series The Palace, filmed in Lithuania; she played Queen Charlotte, mother of King Richard IV.

In August 2008, Asher appeared in the reality TV talent show-themed television series, Maestro, on BBC Two with other showbusiness personalities. From 2009 to 2010, she played Sally in the BBC One comedy series The Old Guys. In 2011, she played Margaret Harker in Waterloo Road.

In October 2009, she appeared as Delia in Peter Hall's revival of Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce at the Rose Theatre, Kingston and in her first pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Richmond Theatre in December 2009, receiving enthusiastic reviews for both. In 2011, she returned to the Rose, Kingston as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest.

In 2012, she appeared in Charley's Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory. In the summer of 2013, she played Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. In 2014, she starred in the stage adaptation of Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger at the Theatre Royal Bath and on tour. In 2016, Asher took on the role of Miss Havisham in Michael Eaton's adaptation of Great Expectations. She took on the role of Madame Baurel in the 2017 London stage production of An American in Paris (musical).

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