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.
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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