Maria Menounos
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Dame Edith Mary Evans, 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.
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Dame Edith Mary Evans, 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 Noel Coward. She created roles in two of Shaw’s plays: Orinthia in The Apple Cartand was in the British premieres of two others: Heartbreak Houseand Back to Methuselahand – one of her most celebrated roles – Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, which she played in four productions between 1926 and 1961.
3 Quotes by Edith Evans
- 1.
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
Edith EvansBritish actress (1888-1976)
- 2.
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?
Edith EvansBritish actress (1888-1976)
- 3.
I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Edith EvansBritish actress (1888-1976)