Evelyn Knight

Evelyn Dawn Knight is an English woman known for her involvement in the Abscam sting operation of the 1970s, with her exhusband Mel Weinberg. A character inspired by her was portrayed on film by Amy Adams in American Hustle for which Adams was nominated for an Academy Award. The story of Abscam was depicted as well in the 1981 book The Sting Man by Robert Greene.

Knight was born in Watford, the daughter of Ethel and Sidney Knight. Her father was the manager of a crumpet factory.

Source: Wikipedia