Personal Life
She was married three times, firstly to Rupert Hart-Davis (between 1929 and 1933), secondly to Theodore Komisarjevsky (in 1934) and thirdly to Jeremy Hutchinson, whom she married in 1940 and divorced in 1965. By her third husband, Peggy had two children, a son Nicholas, born 1946 and a daughter Eliza born in 1941. Her granddaughter is the French singer Emily Loizeau.
Ashcroft was the inspiration for the character Julie Walters portrayed in the film Driving Lessons, written and directed by Jeremy Brock who had worked for Ashcroft decades earlier.
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