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Edith Evans
Dame Edith Mary Evans 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.
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entertainment · English actress (1888–1976) · stage actor · film actor · actor · also Edith Evans, Edith Mary Evans, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Edith Mary Evans, Dame Edith (Mary) Evans, Evans
Born 8 February 1888 · Died 14 October 1976 · Q236718
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1976· 6 entries
Died 1976-10-14.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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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At Evans's career The Times observed that the two decades after her success as Millamant showed the range of her talent
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1968· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for The Whisperers (1968).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Whisperers (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Earned Silver Bear for Best Actress for The Whisperers (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
In a production for the National Theatre, she returned to the role of Judith Bliss in Hay Fever, heading a cast that in Coward's words "could play the Albanian telephone directory"
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1960· 1 entry
Evans played Judith Bliss in a television production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever
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1948· 2 entries
Evans returned to the film studios after an absence of more than thirty years
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Exchanging the role of Millamant for that of the formidable old Lady Wishfort
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1946).
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1939· 1 entry
Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest
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1924· 1 entry
Achieved wide public fame for the first time
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1918· 1 entry
Appeared in light comedy alongside the young Noël Coward (Polly With a Past, 1921) and played five new Shavian roles, Lady Utterword in Heartbreak House (1921) and the Serpent, the Oracle, the She-Ancient and the ghost o
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1917· 1 entry
But thereafter made no more films for over thirty years
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1915· 1 entry
And also had a minor role in another 1915 film, A Honeymoon for Three, starring Charles Hawtrey
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1914· 1 entry
At Moore's instigation, Evans was given a year's contract by the Royalty Theatre in Soho
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1912· 1 entry
Playing Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, she was spotted by the producer William Poel and made her first professional appearance for him in Cambridge in August of that year; she played Gautami in a 6th-century Hindu c
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-02-08.
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