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name: "Edna Thomas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edna-thomas"
roles: []
born: "1 November 1885"
died: "22 July 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T02:21:24.958753+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."
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# Edna Thomas

Actor. Born 1 November 1885 in Lawrenceville. Died 22 July 1974.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 November 1885, Lawrenceville
- **Died:** 22 July 1974
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Lewis_Thomas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93270673, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858777/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10544

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*A Streetcar Named Desire*](https://film.one/film/a-streetcar-named-desire.md) (88)

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## Biography

Edna Thomas (born Edna Lewis) was an American actress. She was born on 1 November 1885 in Lawrenceville, Virginia, and died on 22 July 1974 in New York City. Her stage career began in New York during the Harlem Renaissance. She appeared on Broadway and with companies including the Lafayette Players and the Federal Theater Project.

Thomas played Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles's 1936 all-Black production of Macbeth. She appeared in other Broadway productions such as Strange Fruit (1945) and Harriet (1944). She portrayed the Mexican Woman in the original Broadway run of A Streetcar Named Desire (1947–1949) and its revivals, and reprised the role in the 1951 film adaptation, her only screen credit. She was married to Lloyd Thomas.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Streetcar Named Desire* (1951), Fi1m 88, as The Mexican Woman — [page](https://film.one/film/a-streetcar-named-desire.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *A Streetcar Named Desire* (1951), as The Mexican Woman — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/a-streetcar-named-desire.md)

## Gallery

- ![Photograph of Edna Thomas as Lady Macbeth in the Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre (1936)](https://film.one/media/person/1237139/gallery-d088d032476f.jpg) Photograph of Edna Thomas as Lady Macbeth in the Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre (1936) — Federal Theatre Project, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Macbeth-24-Thomas.jpg/1280px-Macbeth-24-Thomas.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Photograph of Edna Thomas as Lady Macbeth in the Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre, Harlem (1936)](https://film.one/media/person/1237139/gallery-4fd344a311af.jpg) Photograph of Edna Thomas as Lady Macbeth in the Federal Theatre Project production of Macbeth at the Lafayette Theatre, Harlem (1936) — Federal Theatre Project, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Macbeth-14-Thomas.jpg/1280px-Macbeth-14-Thomas.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sujet : Thomas, Edna (1885-1974) -- Portraits États-Unis Portraits -- 1914-1945 Référence bibliographique : Rol, 122306 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : P (1927)](https://film.one/media/person/1237139/gallery-4dd535bbfde3.jpg) Sujet : Thomas, Edna (1885-1974) -- Portraits États-Unis Portraits -- 1914-1945 Référence bibliographique : Rol, 122306 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : P (1927) — Pacific and Atlantic (Agence photographique). Agence photographique pour le document reproduit (commanditaire)

Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Miss_Edna_Thomas_%28Pacific%29_-_btv1b53188095p.jpg/1280px-Miss_Edna_Thomas_%28Pacific%29_-_btv1b53188095p.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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