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Edith Evans
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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.
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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As actor
Nothing Like a Dame
Nasty Habits
The Slipper and the Rose
Craze
A Doll's House
Scrooge
Upon This Rock
David Copperfield
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Crooks and Coronets
Prudence and the Pill
The New Cinema
Fitzwilly
The Whisperers
Young Cassidy
The Chalk Garden
Tom Jones
The Nun's Story
Look Back in Anger
ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Queen of Spades
The Last Days of Dolwyn
East Is East
A Welsh Singer