Chloe Ashcroft

{{Short description|British television presenter}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| name = Chloe Ashcroft

| image = Chloe Ashcroft.jpg

| caption = Ashcroft in 2004

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|07|07|df=y}}

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| occupation = Actress and former children's TV presenter

| spouse = David Hargreaves

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Chloe Ashcroft (born 7 July 1942) is a British actress and a former presenter of several BBC children's TV programmes, including Play School,{{cite news |title=Play School - six years of success with under fives |work=The Stage |date=28 May 1970 |accessdate=12 October 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19700528/080/0010| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}"[https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/playschool/trivia.shtml Classic TV|Play School]", BBC, Retrieved 12 October 2018 Play Away, Hokey-Cokey, Excuse Me,{{cite news |title=TV Guide |work=Liverpool Echo |date=30 March 1979 |accessdate=12 October 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19790330/101/0009| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} All Change,{{cite news |title=Weekend at Home |work=Newcastle Evening Chronicle |date=22 June 1968 |accessdate=12 October 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000726/19680622/039/0004| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} and Pie in the Sky. She also appeared in the Doctor Who story Resurrection of the Daleks (1984), playing Professor Laird.Muir, John Kenneth (2008) A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television, McFarland & Co., {{ISBN|978-0786437160}}, p. 337

Before her television career, she appeared in several stage plays in the 1960s, and returned to the stage in the 1980s.{{cite news |title=An Enchanting Revival of Trelawny of the 'Wells |work=The Stage |date=15 July 1965 |accessdate=12 October 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19650715/142/0015| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title='Ghosts' |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=15 June 1967 |accessdate=12 October 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19670615/460/0020| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite news |title=The Father |work=The Stage |date=31 March 1988 |accessdate=12 October 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19880331/127/0026| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} Outside of acting, she has worked as a teacher. She now lives in Whiteshill and Ruscombe in Gloucestershire with her husband, the actor David Hargreaves, with whom she has two children.{{cite news |title=Getting the Balance Right |work=The Stage |date=14 March 1991 |accessdate=12 October 2018 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19910314/086/0020| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}