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Edith Evans
Known for: ActingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Edith Evans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Nun's Story
as Rev. Mother Emmanuel 
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 
The Importance of Being Earnest
as Lady Bracknell 
Scrooge
as Ghost of Christmas Past 
The Slipper and the Rose
as Dowager Queen 
Look Back in Anger
as Mrs. Tanner 
Tom Jones
as Miss Western 
The Madwoman of Chaillot
as Josephine 
Fitzwilly
as Miss Victoria Woodworth 
The Queen of Spades
as The Old Countess Ranevskaya 
Craze
as Aunt Louise 
The Chalk Garden
as Mrs. St. Maugham 
A Doll's House
as Anne-Marie 
The Whisperers
as Mrs Ross 
David Copperfield
as Aunt Betsy Trotwood 
Nasty Habits
as Sister Hildegard