Peggy Mount

Biography

Peggy Mount was a renowned English actress who excelled in playing battleaxe characters, but whose real personality was marked by contrast. She began her career as a child escape from an unhappy home life, eventually landing a breakthrough role in the comic play Sailor Beware! in 1955. A versatile performer, she later took on serious parts, including Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and retired after going blind to spend her final years in northwest London's Denville Hall retirement home.