1. Jane Asher was born on 5 April 1946 and is an English actress and author.
27 Facts About Jane Asher
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Jane Asher achieved early fame as a child actress and through her association with Paul McCartney; she has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.
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Jane Asher appeared in two episodes of the 1950s TV series The Buccaneers alongside Robert Shaw.
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Jane Asher was famously Paul McCartney's girlfriend from 1963 to 1968.
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Jane 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 and Love Is Old, Love Is New.
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Jane Asher was born in London, the middle of three children born to Richard and Margaret Jane Asher, nee Eliot.
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Jane Asher's 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.
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Jane Asher's mother was a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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Jane Asher was educated at North Bridge House School and Miss Lambert's PNEU School for Girls at Paddington, then at Queen's College in Harley Street, London.
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Jane Asher was a child actress who appeared in the 1952 film Mandy and the 1955 science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment.
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Jane Asher played the title role in dramatised versions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass in 1958 for Argo Records.
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Jane Asher appeared in the 1962 film and Disney TV programme, The Prince and the Pauper.
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Jane Asher appeared in Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death with Vincent Price, in Alfie opposite Michael Caine in 1966, and in Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End with John Moulder Brown.
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In 2006, Jane 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.
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In 2016, Jane Asher took on the role of Miss Havisham in Michael Eaton's adaptation of Great Expectations.
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Jane Asher took on the role of Madame Baurel in the 2017 London stage production of An American in Paris.
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Jane Asher has written three novels: The Longing, The Question, and Losing It, and published more than a dozen lifestyle, costuming, and cake decorating books.
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Jane Asher owns a company that makes party cakes and sugar crafts for special occasions.
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Jane Asher is a shareholder in Private Eye, president of Arthritis Care, and a patron of Scoliosis Association.
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Jane Asher was a speaker at the 2006 launch of the National Autistic Society's "Make School Make Sense" campaign and is president of Parkinson's UK.
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In March 2010, Jane Asher became vice president to Autistica, a UK charity raising funds for autism research.
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Jane Asher is a patron of TRACKS Autism, an early years nursery setting for children on the autistic spectrum and The Daisy Garland, a national registered charity supporting children with drug resistant epilepsy.
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Jane Asher met Paul McCartney on 18 April 1963 at Royal Albert Hall in London, and began a five-year relationship with him.
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The couple announced on Christmas Day 1967 that they were engaged to be married, and Jane Asher accompanied the Beatles and their partners to Rishikesh in early 1968 to attend an advanced transcendental meditation training session with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
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Shortly afterwards, Margaret Jane Asher drove to Cavendish Avenue to collect her daughter's things.
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On 20 July 1968, Jane Asher announced to the BBC that her engagement had been called off.
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Jane Asher attended the 1970 London premiere of the Beatles' movie Let It Be, along with Lennon's ex-wife Cynthia.