Edith Evans

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1888 age 0

   Born

2. 1952 age 64

   CreditThe Importance of Being Earnest

3. 1959 age 71

   CreditLook Back in Anger

   CreditThe Nun's Story

4. 1963 age 75

   CreditTom Jones

5. 1964 age 76

   CreditThe Chalk Garden

6. 1967 age 79

   CreditThe Whisperers

7. 1969 age 81

   CreditThe Madwoman of Chaillot

8. 1970 age 82

   CreditScrooge

9. 1976 age 88

   Died

   CreditThe Slipper and the Rose

• BFBryan Forbes3 titles
• AFAlbert Finney2 titles
• RCRichard Chamberlain2 titles
• DPDonald Pleasence2 titles
• OMOswald Morris2 titles
• KMKenneth More2 titles
• TRTony Richardson2 titles
• JOJohn Osborne2 titles
• JGJoan Greenwood2 titles
• RNRonald Neame2 titles

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  Photo:Allan warrenCC BY-SA 3.0

• I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

  Edith Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0

• When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

  Edith Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

  Edith Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

  Edith Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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 Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0