Estelle Evans
Biography
Estelle Evans was a Bahamian-American actress who came to performing after years as a schoolteacher. Born in the Bahamas, she moved with her family to Florida in 1920 and later settled in New York City, where she studied drama at Hunter College and with the American Negro Theater alongside Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte. Her early screen work included a role in The Quiet One (1948), and she played Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). She appeared in other major movies and television shows, and for her performance in The Learning Tree (1969) she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. She died in 1985.
78years old at death
- Born Nassau
- Died New York City
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
- Also credited as Estelle Rolle Evans
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 20 years1962 to 1982
Every film, newest first
- 1982The ClairvoyantIMDb rating 5.5
- 1977A Piece of the ActionIMDb rating 6.5
- 1969The Learning TreeIMDb rating 7.2
- 1962To Kill a MockingbirdIMDb rating 8.2
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