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Edith Evans

1888 - 1976

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edith Evans is the 3,923rd most popular actor (down from 3,903rd in 2019), the 3,397th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,117th in 2019) and the 471st most popular British Actor.

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Among actors, Edith Evans ranks 3,923 out of 13,578. Before her are Lukas Haas, Sunil Dutt, Charmian Carr, Denis Lavant, Park Shin-hye, and Clifton Webb. After her are Jack Albertson, Bradley Whitford, Ilse Steppat, Ossie Davis, Susanne Lothar, and Jim Cummings.

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Among people born in 1888, Edith Evans ranks 172. Before her are Gladys Cooper, Osip Brik, Gustaf Molander, Marietta Shaginyan, Franciszek Kleeberg, and Paul Bernays. After her are Kakutsa Cholokashvili, Hans von Rosen, Carlo Oriani, Alfred Landé, Juan Antonio Ríos, and Jean Bouin. Among people deceased in 1976, Edith Evans ranks 170. Before her are Manuel Olivares, Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Veikko Huhtanen, Hamit Kaplan, and Lily Pons. After her are Walter Piston, Percy Faith, Mark Tobey, Carlos Fonseca, Alfred Landé, and Bertha Lutz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edith Evans ranks 3,398 out of 8,785. Before her are Graham Swift (1949), Herbert Hall Turner (1861), Joey Dunlop (1952), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Thomas Bewick (1753), and Carole Pateman (1940). After her are Anne Treisman (1935), Thomas Gage (1719), Pamela Colman Smith (1878), G. D. H. Cole (1889), Roy Jenkins (1920), and Emil Voigt (1883).

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Among actors born in United Kingdom, Edith Evans ranks 471. Before her are James Norton (1985), Gladys Cooper (1888), Michael Ball (1962), Warwick Davis (1970), Michael Gothard (1939), and Jimmy Gardner (1924). After her are Alan Young (1919), Ronald Pickup (1940), Constance Collier (1878), John Steiner (1941), Vanessa Kirby (1988), and Edward Hardwicke (1932).

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