In 2014, she starred in the stage adaptation of Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger at the Theatre Royal Bath and on tour. In the summer of 2013, she played Lady Catherine de Bourgh in Pride and Prejudice at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. In 2012, she appeared in Charley's Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory. In 2011, she returned to the Rose, Kingston as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest.
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 played Margaret Harker in Waterloo Road.
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From 2009 to 2010, she played Sally in the BBC One comedy series The Old Guys.
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In August 2008, Asher appeared in the reality TV talent show-themed television series, Maestro, on BBC Two with other showbusiness personalities. 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. The same year Asher appeared in the BBC medical drama, Holby City as Lady Byrne. In 2007, she portrayed the widow Sandra in the Frank Oz film Death at a Funeral. 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 2005, she starred in The World's Biggest Diamond, by Gregory Motton, at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2004, she starred in Festen at the Arts Theatre. After the soap was axed, Asher apologised to Crossroads fans for the way the 2003 series went. In 2003, she appeared in the revived ITV soap, Crossroads where she played the hotel's owner, Angel Sampson. 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". 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). 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). 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.Īsher as Juliet when the Bristol Old Vic made a US tour in 1967Īsher 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. She also appeared in the 1962 film and Disney TV programme, The Prince and the Pauper. In 1961 she co-starred in The Greengage Summer, which was released in the United States as Loss of Innocence. She also played the title role in dramatised versions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass in 1958 for Argo Records. Acting career Īsher was a child actress who appeared in the 1952 film Mandy and the 1955 science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment. Asher's elder brother is record producer and manager Peter Asher, who started his career as Peter of Peter and Gordon. 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.
Asher's mother was a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. 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. Asher was born in London, the middle of three children born to Richard and Margaret Asher, née Eliot.
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