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Edith Evans
Sign in to saveAlso known as Edith Mary Evans, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Edith Mary Evans, Dame Edith (Mary) Evans
British actress (1888–1976)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 37
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Film & TV
Acting · London, England, UK
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…
Known for
- Nothing Like a Dame — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2018
- Nasty Habits — Sister Hildegard1977
- The Slipper and the Rose — Dowager Queen1976
- Craze — Aunt Louise1974
- QB VII — Dr. Parmentier1974
- A Doll's House — Anne-Marie1973
- Scrooge — Ghost of Christmas Past1970
- Upon This Rock — Queen Christina (voice)1970
- David Copperfield — Aunt Betsy Trotwood1969
- The Madwoman of Chaillot — Josephine1969
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1888
- Active to
- 1976
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 772
- Total plays
- 3,937
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.”
- “When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?”
- “If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.”
- “Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.”
- “A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Edith Mary Evans , ( 1888-02-08 ) 8 February 1888, Pimlico , London , England
- Died
- 14 October 1976 (1976-10-14) (aged 88), Cranbrook, Kent , England
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1910–1976
- Spouse
- George Booth ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1925 ; died 1935 )
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Dame Edith Evans Allan Warren.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1888-02-08
- date of death
- 1976-10-14
- Commons category
- Edith Evans
- start of work period
- 1915-00-00
- end of work period
- 1976-00-00
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Article
Dame Edith Mary Evans (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was an English actress. She was best known for her work on the West End stage, but also appeared in films at the beginning and towards the end of her career. Between 1964 and 1968, she was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Evans's stage career spanned sixty years, during which she played more than 100 roles, in classics by Shakespeare, Congreve, Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde, and plays by contemporary writers including Bernard Shaw, Enid Bagnold, Christopher Fry and Noël Coward. She created roles in two of Shaw's plays: Orinthia in The Apple Cart (1929), and Epifania in The Millionairess (1940) and was in the British premières of two others: Heartbreak House (1921) and Back to Methuselah (1923).