| Biography | Jane Asher is an English actress, author and entrepreneur who achieved early fame as a child actress and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career.
Asher has appeared in TV shows and films such as Deep End, The Masque of the Red Death, Alfie, The Mistress, Crossroads, Death at a Funeral, and The Old Guys. She is also known for supplying specialist cakes and kitchenware, and publishing three best-selling novels. She was a key figure of 1960s UK entertainment and arts culture and was well known as the girlfriend and muse to Beatle Paul McCartney.
On 18 April 1963, the 17-year-old Asher interviewed the Beatles at the Royal Albert Hall and began a five-year relationship with Paul McCartney. McCartney and Asher announced on Christmas Day 1967 that they were engaged to marry, and in 1968, Asher accompanied the Beatles and their respective partners to Rishikesh to attend an advanced Transcendental Meditation training session with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. |