Edith Evans
Actor
Biography
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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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Filmography
The Nun's Story
as Rev. Mother Emmanuel 1959
Scrooge
as Ghost of Christmas Past 1970
The Importance of Being Earnest
as Lady Bracknell 1952
Look Back in Anger
as Mrs. Tanner 1959
The Queen of Spades
as The Old Countess Ranevskaya 1949
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2018
The Slipper and the Rose
as Dowager Queen 1976
The Chalk Garden
as Mrs. St. Maugham 1964
Fitzwilly
as Miss Victoria Woodworth 1967
The Whisperers
as Mrs Ross 1967
Craze
as Aunt Louise 1974
Young Cassidy
as Lady Gregory 1965
A Doll's House
as Anne-Marie 1973
Prudence and the Pill
as Roberta Bates 1968
David Copperfield
as Aunt Betsy Trotwood 1969
The Madwoman of Chaillot
as Josephine 1969