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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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self
- Omnibus (1967) as Self
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969) as Dame Maud Gosport
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Duchess of Pont-au-Bronc
- The Nun's Story (1959) as Rev. Mother Emmanuel
- Scrooge (1970) as Ghost of Christmas Past
- QB VII (1974) as Dr. Parmentier
- Tom Jones (1963) as Miss Western
- Fitzwilly (1967) as Miss Victoria Woodworth
- The Slipper and the Rose (1976) as Dowager Queen
- The New Cinema (1968) as Self
- A Doll's House (1973) as Anne-Marie
- The Whisperers (1967) as Mrs Ross
- The Chalk Garden (1964) as Mrs. St. Maugham
- Young Cassidy (1965) as Lady Gregory
- The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) as Lady Bracknell
- Nasty Habits (1977) as Sister Hildegard
- Look Back in Anger (1959) as Mrs. Tanner
- The Queen of Spades (1949) as The Old Countess Ranevskaya
- Nothing Like a Dame (2018) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Craze (1974) as Aunt Louise
- Crooks and Coronets (1969) as Lady Sophie Fitzmore
- David Copperfield (1969) as Aunt Betsy Trotwood