Alice Eve

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Alice Eve

Born February 6, 1982 (1982-02-06) (age 26)
U.K.
Occupation Actress

Alice Eve (born 6 February 1982) is a British actress.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Eve is the daughter of actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan and has two younger brothers, Jack and George. She was raised in the UK and Los Angeles. 166cm tall, Eve attended Bedales and then did her A-Levels at Westminster School in London. During her gapyear she studied at the Beverly Hills Playhouse and then read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. While at Oxford she appeared in student productions of An Ideal Husband, Animal Crackers (which toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Scenes From An Execution and The Colour of Justice.

[edit] Career

She has starred in television dramas including the BBC's The Rotters' Club, Poirot and Hawking, as well as the film Stage Beauty (2004).

Eve played significant roles in two 2006 films: Starter for Ten and Big Nothing.[1] She spent the early part of 2006 in India working on a new drama mini-series Losing Gemma about backpackers. She made her professional stage debut in Trevor Nunn and Tom Stoppard's latest production Rock 'n' Roll at the Royal Court Theatre in the summer of 2006.[2]. For this performance she was nominated for the best supporting actress award at the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards. She reprised her performance in the Broadway transfer for Rock 'n' Roll in 2007.

She appears in the 2007 short The Amazing Trousers, and in the 2008 US film Crossing Over. She will next work on the film She's Out Of My League.

[edit] Personal life

She is currently dating her Rock 'n' Roll co-star Rufus Sewell.[3] She was previously in a relationship with actor Rafe Spall whom she met while working on The Rotters' Club; and was once named sixth most eligible woman in Britain by Tatler magazine.

[edit] 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, September 2005

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bradshaw, Peter. "Big Nothing (review)", The Guardian, December 1, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-02. 
  2. ^ Shenton, Mar. "Alice Eve", Theatre.com, December 2, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-02. 
  3. ^ Boniface, Susie. "Exclusive: Rufus Zo in Love, Zorro Hunk, 39, Falls for Sexy Co-Star Alice Eve, 23", The Daily Mirror, July 16, 2006. 

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