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Fearless Nadia

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Fearless Nadia

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  • Born
    January 8, 1908 · Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • Died
    January 9, 1996 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (undisclosed)
  • Birth name
    Mary Evans

Biography

    • Fearless Nadia was born Mary Evans in Perth, Australia. She accompanied her family to India as a child. She began working in the circus in the early 1930s, where she took the name Fearless Nadia. The tall, blue-eyed, blonde began her film career several years later in Hindi language films in India. She was best known for portraying the masked, cloaked adventuress "Hunterwali" (A.K.A. "The Lady Hunter") in 1935. She appeared in over 50 films in India. She married her long-time producer-director Homi Wadia in the early 1960s and retired from films.
      - IMDb mini biography by: Harris Lentz III

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      Homi Wadia(1961 - January 9, 1996) (her death)

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  • She was the subject of a documentary produced by her grandson in 1993 entitled "Fearless - The Hunterwali Story".
  • Her father was English and her mother was Greek. Mary Evans changed her name to 'Nadia' on the advice of a fortune teller.

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