Mary Ann Evans, better known as Fearless Nadia, was born in Perth, Australia, in 1908 to a British soldier and a Greek mother. Her family relocated to Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1913 due to her father’s transfer who later died in World War 1. Evans, exhibiting athletic prowess from a young age, mastered horse riding, gymnastics, tennis, tap dance, and ballet – a formidable skill set for a cinematic superwoman.
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Fearless Nadia
After his father’s demise she trying her hands at many jobs and learnt many trades and eventually joined Zarko Circus in 1930 and coose the name Nadia, where She was spotted by filmmaker Jamshed Boman Homi Wadia who was very impressed by athleticism of of Evans and cast her a slave girl in the 1933 film “Desh Deepak”, then as Princess Parizaad in Noor-e-Yaman.
In 1935 Wadia gave her the role of a lifetime in “Hunterwali” in which she played vigilante princess Madhuri who fights injustice and treason in her father’s kingdom by going undercover with a whip and a mask. The movie became a smash hit at the box office and was one of the top films of the decade it was the birth of “Fearless Nadia”
She went on to star in over 50 movies like Miss Frontier Mail(1936), Diamond Queen (1940), Jungle Princess(1942), Hunterwali Ki Beti(1945), Mauj(1943) & Dhoomketu(1949) among others. In 1967-68, when she was in her late 50s, she appeared in a James Bond spoof called Khiladi (The Player). She performed all her stunts herself many a times at great risk to her life.
Homi Wadia ultimately married to Nadia and remained married until her death on January 9, 1996.
