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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1888-02-08 (137 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
QB VII as Dr. Parmentier

1973

A Doll's House as Anne-Marie

1970

Scrooge as Ghost of Christmas Past
Upon This Rock as Queen Christina (voice)

1969

David Copperfield as Aunt Betsy Trotwood
Crooks and Coronets as Lady Sophie Fitzmore

1968

Prudence and the Pill as Roberta Bates

1967

Fitzwilly as Miss Victoria Woodworth
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

1962

1959

The Nun's Story as Rev. Mother Emmanuel
Look Back in Anger as Mrs. Tanner

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Duchess of Pont-au-Bronc

1949

The Queen of Spades as The Old Countess Ranevskaya

1916

East Is East as Aunt
A Welsh Singer as Mrs. Pomfrey