Jane Asher is born

Jane Asher, who was in a relationship with Paul McCartney between 1963 and 1968, was born on this day in Willesden, north London.

She was the youngest of three children born to Dr Richard Alan John Asher and Margaret Asher. Her father worked as a writer, broadcaster and consultant in blood and mental diseases at Central Middlesex Hospital, and her mother was a professor of oboe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Asher became a child actress and later had a distinguished career on stage and screen.