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Deanna Dunagan (born May 25, 1940) is an American actress.While principally active as a stage actress, she has also worked in television and film. She is best known for her Tony Award-winning portrayal of Violet Weston in Tracy Letts' August: Osage County and for her portrayal of Nana in M. Night Shyamalan's 2015 film The Visit.
Edna Troche Cintrón (October 14, 1954 – September 11, 2001), [1] also known as the Waving Woman, [2] was a Marsh McLennan-employed administrative assistant at the ...
Edna Buchanan (née Rydzik, born March 16, 1939) [1] [2] is an American journalist and writer who is best known for her crime mystery novels. She won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting "for her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting."
Josephine Edna O'Brien DBE (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and society as a whole.
Edna May Oliver (born Edna May Nutter, November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress.During the 1930s, she was one of the better-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.
Edna Christofferson was the daughter of Martin and Mary Elizabeth Bissner, immigrants from Alsace-Lorraine. [1] Upon arriving in the United States, they settled in Pipestone County, Minnesota, where Edna was born in 1886. [1]
Edna May Griffin (1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American civil rights pioneer and human rights activist. Known as the "Rosa Parks of Iowa", her court battle against the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines in 1948, State of Iowa v. Katz, foreshadowed the civil rights movement and became a landmark case before the Iowa Supreme Court. [1]
Edna May Edmunds was born in the Forest of Dean and educated at Bells Grammar School, Coleford, Gloucestershire, where she was the first pupil to gain a place at Oxford University. Her father, Edward Edmunds, a crane driver, threatened to send her to work in a pin factory if she did not apply herself to reading. [ 1 ]