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South African-born actress of English-Welsh parentage (her father was a lecturer). She was trained for acting in Berlin at the Max Reinhardt school of the Deutsche Theater and had a successful career on the stage. Her film appearances ranged from supporting roles to occasional leads, frequently as eccentric or capricious characters. Arguably, one of her best performances was in the Defa production Affaire Blum (1948).

She made her film debut in 1927 with "Der Kampf des Donald Westhof" (1927), her only silent movie. In the next years the film business kept a minor matter which had to submit to the theater.

She also gave her special attention to the theater after the war and she often impersonated eccentric and strange characters.

The actress Karin Evans was a student at Max Reinhardt's stage school in Berlin and was casted in his performance "Jedermann". Within no time she acted together with the greatest stage actors of her time and appeared on many important German stages.

Karin Evans was married with the artist Wolf Hoffmann.