Jane Asher
Jane Asher ( born April 5, 1946 in Marylebone, London) is a British actress and writer.
Life
Jane Asher is the second of three children of the famous physician Richard Asher and music professor Margaret Asher. Her older brother, Peter, is one half of the pop duo Peter & Gordon, her younger sister Clare also works as an actress.
In 1952, Asher was in the drama Mandy made her film debut. Over the next ten years, she has appeared in numerous television and film productions, including the science fiction film Shock ( 1955), the television series The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1956-1958 ) and the literary adaptation The Principal and the Pauper ( 1962). In 1960 she took the lead female role in a West End theater production of Peter Pan. At the age of 15 she was one of the most famous child stars in Britain.
On April 18, 1963 Asher attended on behalf of the BBC Music magazine Radio Times, a performance by the Beatles at the Royal Albert Hall to write a concert review and interview the band. From this meeting a longstanding relationship with the Beatles bassist Paul McCartney, with whom she became engaged in 1967 developed.
Jane Asher McCartney served as inspiration for several songs, including We Can Work It Out, Here, There And Everywhere and For No One. Although Paul was loud Cynthia Lennon ' proud as a peacock " at his beautiful, famous and well-heeled fiancee, he had affairs over again. Marianne Faithfull even claimed the two had never gotten along really well with each other. In 1968 there came to separation, a year later married Linda Eastman McCartney, the photographer.
1964 Asher was together with Vincent Price in Roger Corman's Satan - The Castle of bloody beast to see (after Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death ), 1966 alongside Michael Caine in the comedy The abuser makes beautiful greetings ( Alfie ). The drama Deep End, where in 1970 she played a major role, is considered one of their best and most famous work as an actress and earned her a nomination for the British Film Award.
In 1971 she met the illustrator Gerald Scarfe, with whom she has been married since 1981 and has three children.
Since 2001, Jane Asher has also made as an author of recipe books and novels a name. However, also continues to appear in films and television series, most recently in Death at a Funeral (Death at a Funeral ) by Frank Oz
Jane Asher is also the owner of a company for finished cake and presents her baking recipes also on British television.