Edith Evans MBE
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Edith Mary Evans MBE (1888 - 1976)

Dame Edith Mary Evans MBE
Born in Pimlico, London, England, United Kingdommap
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Wife of — married 9 Sep 1925 in St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdommap
Died at age 88 in Cranbrook, Kent, England, United Kingdommap
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Edith Evans MBE was born in Pimlico, Middlesex, England.

British Actress 1888-1976 M.B.A

Edith Mary Evans was born on 5 February 1888 in Pimlico, London, England. to Made the decision not to have children, which she regretted in later life, out of fear of losing a child, having seen the devastation it caused her parents when her brother died at age four.Edward Evans and Caroline (Foster) Evans Edward was junior civil servant in the General Post Office[1]

Edith married 9th September 1925 to George Booth (known as Guy) at St. George Hanover Square, London, England. He died in 1935 they had no children[2][3]

Honours and Memorials Dame Edith Mary Evans was an English actress who was appointed Commander to the Order of the British Empire 1946 . She was best known for her work on the 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.[4]

She received honorary degrees from the universities of London, Cambridge, Oxford and Hull. Evans was painted by Walter Sickert as Katharina in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. For many years a sculpted head of Evans was on display at the Royal Court Theatre. In 1977 a portrait by Henry Glintenkamp was sold as part of her estate. Evans's ashes are interred at St Paul's, Covent Garden, London.[5]

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).

Other Film acting awards Edith Evans was cited as Best Supporting Actress by the National Board of Review for The Nun's Story in 1959. The NBR also cited her as Best Supporting Actress for The Chalk Garden in 1964 and as Best Actress for The Whisperers in 1967. Her role in The Whisperers also won her awards from the British Film Academy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the New York Film Critics Circle[6]

Evans became widely known for portraying haughty aristocratic women, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones. By contrast, she played a downtrodden maid in The Late Christopher Bean (1933), a deranged, impoverished old woman in The Whisperers (1967) and – one of her most celebrated roles – the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, which she played in four productions between 1926 and 1961[7]

Edith died at her home 109 Ebury Street, Kilndown, Kent on 14th October 1976 at the age of 88 and one of the finest actresses of the English-speaking stage during the 20th century[8]

Evan's ashes are interred at St Paul's Covent Garden, London[9] A blue Plaque was unveiled outside her house in 1997[10]


Personal Quotes:

"I don't think there's anything extraordinary about me except this passion for the truth."

"Marking ages is a sign of deterioration. Age has nothing to do with me."[11]



  • "England and Wales Census, 1891," database with images, FamilySearch

(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:35WK-J2M : 11 December 2017), Edith Mary Evans in household of Edward Evans, St George Hanover Square, London, England; from "1891 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 12, London county, subdistrict, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

  • "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWLD-RRW : 1 August 2017), Edith Mary Evans in household of Edward Evans, St George Hanover Square, Pimlico S W, London, England; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

Sources

  1. "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XT4-XB7 : 1 October 2014), Edith Mary Evans, 1888; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, St. George Hanover Square, London, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Evans
  3. "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZR-5MDM : 8 October 2014), Edith M Evans and null, 1925; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1925, quarter 3, vol. 1A, p. 1132, St. George Hanover Square, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Evans
  5. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edith-Evans
  6. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262725/bio?
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Evans
  8. Wikipedia contributors, "Edith Evans," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edith_Evans&oldid=1015117710 (accessed April 24, 2021).
  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Evans
  10. Wikipedia contributors, "Edith Evans," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edith_Evans&oldid=1015117710 (accessed April 24, 2021).
  11. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262725/bio?




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