Edith Evans
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
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nasty Habits
1977
as Sister Hildegard
The Slipper and the Rose
1976
as Dowager Queen
Craze
1974
as Aunt Louise
A Doll's House
1973
as Anne-Marie
Scrooge
1970
as Ghost of Christmas Past
Upon This Rock
1970
as Queen Christina (voice)
David Copperfield
1969
as Aunt Betsy Trotwood
The Madwoman of Chaillot
1969
as Josephine
Crooks and Coronets
1969
as Lady Sophie Fitzmore
Prudence and the Pill
1968
as Roberta Bates
The New Cinema
1968
as Self
Fitzwilly
1967
as Miss Victoria Woodworth
The Whisperers
1967
as Mrs Ross
Young Cassidy
1965
as Lady Gregory
The Chalk Garden
1964
as Mrs. St. Maugham
Tom Jones
1963
as Miss Western
Look Back in Anger
1959
as Mrs. Tanner
The Nun's Story
1959
as Rev. Mother Emmanuel
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ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
1955
as Lady Bracknell
The Importance of Being Earnest
1952
as Lady Bracknell
The Last Days of Dolwyn
1949
as Merri
The Queen of Spades
1949
as The Old Countess Ranevskaya
East Is East
1916
as Aunt