Awards & Winners

Edith Evans

Date of Birth 08-February-1888
Place of Birth London
(England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
Nationality England
Also know as Edith Mary Evans, Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE, Dame Edith Evans
Profession Actor
Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE was an English actress. She was best known for her work on the stage, but also appeared in films towards the beginning and end of her career. 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, and Epifania in The Millionairess and was in the British premieres of two others: Heartbreak House and Back to Methuselah. 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, a deranged, impoverished old woman in The Whisperers and – one of her most celebrated roles – the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, which she played in four productions between 1926 and 1961.

Awards by Edith Evans

Check all the awards nominated and won by Edith Evans.

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role David Copperfield

1968


BAFTA Award for Best British Actress
Honored for : The Whisperers
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama
Honored for : The Whisperers
(Role: Maggie Ross)

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress The Whisperers
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama The Whisperers
role: Maggie Ross

1967


National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
Honored for : The Whisperers

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress The Whisperers
Academy Award for Best Actress The Whisperers
Role: Mrs. Ross

1965


Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress The Chalk Garden

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role The Chalk Garden
Role: Mrs. St. Maugham
BAFTA Award for Best British Actress Tom Jones

1963


Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Tom Jones
Role: Miss Western

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture The Nun's Story