Jane Asher

Jane Asher, born April 5, 1946, is a British actress. Famous in the United Kingdom for her television career, she is also known for being Paul McCartney's partner from 1963 to 1968, at the height of Beatlemania. She studied in London at Queen's College on Harley Street. She made her first film, M... More

Jane Asher, born April 5, 1946, is a British actress. Famous in the United Kingdom for her television career, she is also known for being Paul McCartney's partner from 1963 to 1968, at the height of Beatlemania. She studied in London at Queen's College on Harley Street. She made her first film, Mandy, at the age of five, alongside Mandy Miller. In 1960, she played Wendy Darling in a version of Peter Pan, and the following year appeared in Lewis Gilbert's Greenengage Summer. In 1963, she became the girlfriend of Paul McCartney, the Beatles' bassist. She inspired the subject matter of several of his songs, such as "Things We Said Today," "We Can Work It Out," "I'm Looking Through You," "Here, There and Everywhere," and "For No One." McCartney moved into the Asher family home on Wimpole Street in central London and remained there for three years. There, he composed, among other songs, "Yesterday." They planned to become engaged, but Asher broke off the engagement and separated from him in 1968. She has been married to cartoonist and caricaturist Gerald Scarfe since 1981.