Edith Evans
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1888-02-08
Day of Death
1976-10-14 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Edith Evans
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was a British actress. She was known for her work on the British stage. She also appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award.
Evans was particularly effective at portraying haughty aristocratic ladies, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (both on stage and in the 1952 film), and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones. By contrast, she played a poverty-stricken old woman in one of her most acclaimed film roles, in The Whisperers (1967).
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Known For
Acting
(2018)
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2014)
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
(1977)
Nasty Habits
as Sister Hildegard
(1976)
The Slipper and the Rose
as Dowager Queen
(1974)
Craze
as Aunt Louise
(1973)
A Doll's House
as Anne-Marie
(1970)
Scrooge
as Ghost of Christmas Past
(1970)
Upon This Rock
as Queen Christina (voice)
(1969)
The Madwoman of Chaillot
as Josephine
(1969)
David Copperfield
as Aunt Betsy Trotwood
(1969)
Crooks and Coronets
as Lady Sophie Fitzmore
(1968)
Prudence and the Pill
as Roberta Bates
(1968)
The New Cinema
as Self
(1967)
Fitzwilly
as Miss Victoria Woodworth
(1967)
The Whisperers
as Mrs Ross
(1965)
Young Cassidy
as Lady Gregory
(1964)
The Chalk Garden
as Mrs. St. Maugham
(1963)
Tom Jones
as Miss Western
(1959)
The Nun's Story
as Rev. Mother Emmanuel
(1959)
Look Back in Anger
as Mrs. Tanner
(1952)
The Importance of Being Earnest
as Lady Bracknell
(1949)
The Queen of Spades
as The Old Countess Ranevskaya
(1949)
The Last Days of Dolwyn
as Merri
(1916)
A Welsh Singer
as Mrs. Pomfrey
(1916)
East Is East
as Aunt