New film tells story of Audrey Evans, Episcopalian doctor who co-founded Ronald McDonald House
Audrey Evans, center, poses with students at St. James School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy of David Kasievich)
Audrey’s Children, a feature-length biopic about Audrey Evans, a pioneering British American pediatric oncologist and a devout Episcopalian who co-founded Ronald McDonald House Charities with members of the Philadelphia Eagles and McDonald’s, will have a limited theatrical release beginning March 28.
Natalie Dormer—best known for her roles in Game of Thrones and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2—stars as Evans, the first female chief of oncology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the first doctors to treat pediatric cancers with chemotherapy.
Directed by Ami Canaan Mann, Audrey’s Children highlights Evans’s myriad accomplishments in the 1970s while battling sexism and medical conventions of the time. Julia Fisher Farbman, a close friend of Evans, wrote the script and produced the film.
