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