Edith Evans
Known for ActingBorn 1888-02-08 — died 1976-10-14London, England, UK
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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.
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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
The Nun's Story
1959 · as Rev. Mother Emmanuel
Fitzwilly
1967 · as Miss Victoria Woodworth
Scrooge
1970 · as Ghost of Christmas Past
Tom Jones
1963 · as Miss Western
The New Cinema
1968 · as Self
The Whisperers
1967 · as Mrs Ross
The Slipper and the Rose
1976 · as Dowager Queen
Young Cassidy
1965 · as Lady Gregory
A Doll's House
1973 · as Anne-Marie
The Importance of Being Earnest
1952 · as Lady Bracknell
Nasty Habits
1977 · as Sister Hildegard
The Queen of Spades
1949 · as The Old Countess Ranevskaya
The Chalk Garden
1964 · as Mrs. St. Maugham
The Madwoman of Chaillot
1969 · as Josephine
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crooks and Coronets
1969 · as Lady Sophie Fitzmore
Prudence and the Pill
1968 · as Roberta Bates
Craze
1974 · as Aunt Louise