Ita Ever

{{Short description|Estonian actress (1931–2023)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Ita Ever

| image =Ita Ever_resize.jpg

| caption = Ita Ever

| birth_name = Ilse Ever

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1931|4|1}}

| birth_place = Paide, Estonia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2023|8|9|1931|4|1}}

| death_place = Tallinn, Estonia

| nationality = Estonian

| occupation = Actress

}}

Ita Ever (born Ilse Ever; 1 April 1931 – 9 August 2023) was an Estonian film, radio, theatre, and television actress.{{cite web |title=Ever, Ita - Eesti Entsüklopeedia |url=http://etbl.teatriliit.ee/artikkel/ever_ita2 |website=etbl.teatriliit.ee |access-date=28 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Ita Ever |url=http://www.draamateater.ee/index.php?lk=28&show=12 |website=draamateater.ee |access-date=28 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609100102/http://www.draamateater.ee/index.php?lk=28&show=12 |archive-date=2007-06-09}} She has been described as a Grand Old Lady of Estonian theatre.{{Cite web |title=VE: Ever, Ita - Eesti teatrilava grand old lady - www.virumaa.ee |url=http://www.virumaa.ee/ve-ever-ita-eesti-teatrilava-grand-old-lady/ |access-date=2023-08-09 |website=www.virumaa.ee}}

Ever began her career in 1953 as a stage actress, and appeared in numerous Estonian and Russian film productions. She was formerly married to Estonian actor Eino Baskin and is the mother of director and actor Roman Baskin.[http://www.filmi.arhiiv.ee/index.php?is_inc=galerii&lang=eng&separ_l=1&show=fotonaitused&gid=61 Filmi Arhiiv: Ita Ever 80] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075028/http://www.filmi.arhiiv.ee/index.php?is_inc=galerii&lang=eng&separ_l=1&show=fotonaitused&gid=61 |date=4 March 2016 }} accessed 1 April 2015

In 1983, she starred as Miss Marple in Secret of the Blackbirds ({{langx|ru|Тайна «Чёрных дроздов»}}, Tayna chyornykh drozdov), the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye.[https://web.archive.org/web/20050517232739/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/marple/links.html PBS Mystery website], pbs.org; accessed 30 March 2015.

Ever appeared in stage and film productions based on the works of Oskar Luts, A. H. Tammsaare, Mats Traat, Agatha Christie, Nikolai Gogol, William Shakespeare, John Steinbeck, Henrik Ibsen, and Anton Chekhov.

Ever died on 9 August 2023, at the age of 92.{{cite news |title=Скончалась легендарная эстонская актриса Ита Эвер |url=https://bublik.delfi.ee/statja/120222774/skonchalas-legendarnaya-estonskaya-aktrisa-ita-ever |access-date=9 August 2023 |publisher=bublik.delfi.ee |date=9 August 2023}}