---
name: "Edith Campion"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edith-campion"
fi1m_id: "edith-campion"
imdb_id: "nm0133051"
tmdb_id: 28740
wikidata_id: "Q96694567"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 December 1923"
died: "16 September 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:47:06.606862+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Edith Campion

## Identity

Edith Campion

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edith-campion
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** edith-campion
- **IMDb ID:** nm0133051
- **TMDB ID:** 28740
- **Wikidata ID:** Q96694567
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Campion_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96694567, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0133051/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28740

Actor. Born 13 December 1923 in Wellington. Died 16 September 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 December 1923, Wellington
- **Died:** 16 September 2007
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Campion_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96694567, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0133051/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28740

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*An Angel at My Table*](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md) (87)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Edith Campion was a New Zealand actor and writer. Born Beverley Georgette Hannah on 13 December 1923 in Wellington, she trained at Victoria University of Wellington and the Old Vic Theatre School in London. In 1945 she married theatre director Richard Campion; the couple founded the New Zealand Players theatre company in 1953, with Campion taking many leading roles. She was appointed MBE in 1959.

Campion appeared in the short film *The Audition* (1989) and had a cameo as Miss Lindsay in her daughter Jane Campion’s feature *An Angel at My Table* (1990). She and Richard Campion divorced in 1987. She died on 16 September 2007 in Ōtaki, New Zealand.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *An Angel at My Table* (1990), Fi1m 87, as Miss Lindsay — [page](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *An Angel at My Table* (1990), as Miss Lindsay — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/an-angel-at-my-table.md)
- *The Audition* (1990), as Mother

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Member of the Order of the British Empire 1959: Member of the Order of the British Empire (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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