Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
(1888-1976), ActressSitter in 31 portraits
Evans's career as an actor spanned almost seventy years and over 150 characters. She achieved widespread fame for her stage performances in the 1920s, and was particularly noted for her interpretation of the plays of Shakespeare. She also originated several roles for the playwright George Bernard Shaw. Her most famous film role is that of Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), which she had played numerous times on stage. During the 1960s, she was nominated for three Academy Awards.
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Henry Glintenkamp
oil on canvas, 1922
NPG 6977
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Alfred Wolmark
pen and ink, 1926
NPG 6930
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1949
NPG P892
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1959
NPG P64
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Lord Snowdon
vintage bromide print, 27 February 1976
NPG P806
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Sasha (Alexander Stewart)
bromide print, September 1929
NPG x137529
Dame Edith Evans as the nurse in 'Romeo and Juliet'
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1935
NPG x11779
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1935
NPG x14528
John Gielgud; Dame Edith Evans; Dame Peggy Ashcroft in 'The Seagull'
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1936
NPG x1860
by Yevonde
Vivex colour print on card mount, 1936-1937
NPG x11654
John Gielgud; Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth); Dame Peggy Ashcroft in 'The Seagull'
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x14517
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x11778
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth) as Lady Pitts in 'Daphne Laureola'
by Angus McBean
bromide press print, 1949
NPG x198293
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1950s
NPG x14069
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1952
NPG x40086
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Lida Moser
film negative, 1953
NPG x45321
by Norman Parkinson
bromide print on card mount, 1954
NPG x30078
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Dennis Reed
bromide print, 1962
NPG x34521
Tony Richardson; Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Sandra Lousada
archival pigment print, 1962
NPG x135441
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Sandra Lousada
archival pigment print, 1962
NPG x135443
Agatha Christie; Dame Edith Evans
by Press Association Photos
bromide press print, 5 March 1968
NPG x184311
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by John Vere Brown
bromide fibre print, early-mid 1970s
NPG x36235
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 22 September 1970
NPG x14325
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Roger Clifford Ltd
bromide print, mid 1970s
NPG x135838
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
after Wyndham Lewis
lithograph, 1932
NPG D32941
John Gielgud; Dame Peggy Ashcroft; Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth) in 'The Seagull'
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1936
NPG x14518
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 23 January 1948
NPG x92813
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 23 January 1948
NPG x92814
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 23 January 1948
NPG x92815
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 23 January 1948
NPG x92816
Dame Edith Evans (Dame Edith Mary Booth)
by Angus McBean
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 7 September 1949
NPG x193365
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