Early life
Eve is the daughter of actors
Trevor EveTrevor John Eve is a British film and television actor. In 1979 he gained fame as the eponymous lead in the detective series Shoestring, and is currently best known for his role as Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in BBC television drama Waking the Dead.-Early life:Eve was born in Birmingham...
and
Sharon MaughanSharon Patricia Maughan is an English actress.Maughan was born in Kirkby, Liverpool. She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art when she was 18 years old and went on to act in several television series including The Enigma Files and The Flame Trees of Thika...
and has two younger brothers, Jack and George. She was raised in the UK and
Los AngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...
. Eve attended Bedales and then did her A-Levels at
Westminster SchoolThe Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools,, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college...
in
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
. During her gap year she studied at the
Beverly Hills PlayhouseThe Beverly Hills Playhouse is one of the oldest acting schools and theatres in Los Angeles. Located at 254 South Robertson Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California, United States.-The early years:...
and then read English at
St Catherine's College, OxfordSt Catherine's College, often called St Catz or simply Catz, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the largest colleges of the University and its motto is Nova et Vetera...
. While at Oxford she appeared in student productions of
An Ideal HusbandAn Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour...
,
Animal CrackersAnimal Crackers is a musical with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musical starred the Marx Brothers.-Productions and background:...
(which toured to the
Edinburgh Fringe FestivalEdinburgh Festival is a collective term for several simultaneous arts and cultural festivals that take place during August each year in Edinburgh, Scotland...
),
Scenes From An Execution and
The Colour of JusticeThe murder of Stephen Lawrence is a notable murder case surrounding the killing of a black British teenager from South-East London named Stephen Lawrence who was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993....
.
Career
She has starred in television dramas including the
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
's
The Rotters' Club,
Poirot and
Hawking, as well as the film
Stage BeautyStage Beauty is a 2004 British/American romantic drama film, directed by Richard Eyre. The screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is based on his play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which was inspired by references to 17th century actor Edward Kynaston made in the detailed private diary kept by Samuel...
(2004).
Eve played significant roles in two 2006 films:
Starter for 10 and
Big NothingBig Nothing is a black comedy/neo-noir film directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea starring David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg. It was released in December 2006, and had its premiere at Cardiff Film Festival in November 2006....
(with both she and co-star Simon Pegg using American accents). She spent the early part of 2006 in India working on a new drama mini-series
Losing Gemma about
backpackersBackpacking is a term that has historically been used to denote a form of low-cost, independent international travel. Terms such as independent travel and/or budget travel are often used interchangeably with backpacking...
.
Eve has appeared in two plays; both directed by
Trevor NunnSir Trevor Robert Nunn CBE is an English theatre- and film director.-Early years:Nunn was born in Ipswich, England to Robert Alexander Nunn, a cabinetmaker, and Dorothy May Piper...
. In 2006 she appeared in
Rock 'n' Roll, a new play by
Tom StoppardSir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, FRSL is a British playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll...
at the
Royal Court TheatreThe Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...
and reprised her role in the 2007 Broadway transfer. For her performance she was nominated for the best supporting actress award at the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards. In 2009 she played Roxane in a production of
Cyrano de BergeracHector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story...
at the
Chichester Festival TheatreChichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....
.
She appears in the forthcoming U.S. films
She's Out of My LeagueShe's Out of My League is an American romantic comedy film from DreamWorks / Paramount Pictures, directed by Jim Field Smith, written by Sean Anders and John Morris and produced by Jimmy Miller. The film finished production in 2008, and is due for wide theatrical release on March 12, 2010. It stars...
and
Sex and the City 2.
Eve also aspires to be a screenwriter.
Personal life
Eve lives in London and Los Angeles.
She has dated
Ben AdamsBenjamin "Ben" Steven Adams is an English singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the popular boyband a1.-Early life:He was born in Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom....
,
Rafe SpallRafe Joseph Spall is an English actor.He landed an agent after he was spotted in a National Youth Theatre production of Nicholas Nickleby and has since appeared on TV and the stage, and in films such as The Calcium Kid and Hot Fuzz , as well as appearing in the Grindhouse segment Don't...
whom she met while working on
The Rotters Club, and from 2006-2008 dated her
Rock 'n' Roll co-star
Rufus SewellRufus Frederik Sewell is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he became well known for his role as the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of...
. She was once named sixth most eligible woman in Britain by
Tatler magazine. In April 2009 she starting dating a poet, Adam O'Riordan, whom she met when they were both undergraduates at Oxford.
Quotes
- "There is an acting gene that has been passed down to me by my parents. It's nature, not nurture." Alice Eve in interview with ES magazine
-Geography:* Spain, a country in Europe, ES in the ISO 3166-1 country code* El Salvador, FIPS 10-4 country code* Espírito Santo, a state in Brazil, ISO 3166-2:BR code* Eš, a village in the Czech Republic-Science:...
, September 2005
Filmography
- Hawking
Hawking, also known as Hawking Drama, is a BBC television film dramatization of the early university career of physicist Stephen Hawking while at the University of Cambridge....
(2004, TV) as Martha Guthrie
- Stage Beauty
Stage Beauty is a 2004 British/American romantic drama film, directed by Richard Eyre. The screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is based on his play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which was inspired by references to 17th century actor Edward Kynaston made in the detailed private diary kept by Samuel...
(2004) as Miss Frayne
- The Rotters' Club (2005, TV) as Cicely Boyd
- Beethoven (2005, TV) as Countess Giulietta Guicciardi
- Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV1 since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by Granada Productions...
: "The Mystery of the Blue Train" (2005, TV) as Lenox Tamplin
- Starter for 10 (2006) as Alice Harbinson
- Big Nothing
Big Nothing is a black comedy/neo-noir film directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea starring David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg. It was released in December 2006, and had its premiere at Cardiff Film Festival in November 2006....
(2006) as Josie McBroom
- Losing Gemma
Losing Gemma is a two part British television drama based on the debut novel by Katy Gardner. The series was written by Robert Murphy, was directed by Maurice Phillips and starred Jonas Armstrong, Alice Eve, Jason Flemyng and Rachel Leskovac...
(2006, TV) as Esther
- The Amazing Trousers (2007, short
Short film is a technical description originally coined in the Indian Film Industry and used in the North American film industry in the early period of cinema. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short subject...
) as Colette
- Crossing Over
Crossing Over is a 2009 American independent drama film about illegal immigrants of different nationalities struggling to achieve legal status in Los Angeles. The film deals with the border, document fraud, the asylum and green card process, work-site enforcement, naturalization, the office of...
(2009) as Claire Shepard
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