Born Evans White Greenstreet on November 26, 1932 in
Bluefield, West Virginia, In 1948, her mother married James Rufus Richardson. Evans later attended
Randolph-Macon Women's College and
Yale Drama School, graduating in 1957. Evans appeared in more than 25 feature film and television projects, including the 1961
Twilight Zone episode "
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim", the 1961
Gunsmoke episode “Harpe’s Blood”, the
Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "
The Big Score",
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "
I Saw the Whole Thing" as Penny Sanford (1962), as well as
Wagon Train episode “
The Hollister John Garrison Story” as Melody Drake (1963),
Virginian episode "Strangers at Sundown" as Phyllis Carter (1963), and, in the short-lived
Richard Egan series
Redigo, as Hope in "Man in a Blackout" (1963). Evans appeared as Flirt Conroy in
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs at the
Music Box Theatre on
Broadway in 1957, working with
Teresa Wright,
Pat Hingle and
Eileen Heckart. Evans was cast in an uncredited role in her husband's 1966 film
Grand Prix. Four years later her maternal grandfather, John Clark Evans (1880–1978), credited as J.C. Evans, portrayed the protagonist's father in Frankenheimer's
I Walk the Line. ==Personal life and death==