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

Early life

Eve was born in London, England, the daughter of actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan. She has two younger brothers, Jack and George, and was raised in the United Kingdom and Los Angeles, United States. She attended Bedales School and then took her A-Levels at Westminster School in London. During her gap year, 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.

Career

Eve 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 10 and Big Nothing (with both she and co-star Simon Pegg using American accents). She spent the early part of 2006 in India working on a drama mini-series Losing Gemma about backpackers.

Eve has appeared in two plays, both directed by Trevor Nunn. In 2006 she appeared in Rock 'n' Roll, a new play by Tom Stoppard at the Royal Court Theatreand 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 Bergerac at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

She appeared in the 2010 U.S. film She's Out of My League (in the film, her parents play the roles of her character's parents) and will appear in the 2010 U.S. film Sex and the City 2.

Eve also aspires to be a screenwriter. Eve said that her grandmother Elsie was her biggest inspiration out of everyone in her life. "My grandma Elsie was just always there for me" she told reporter Abie Mishaan for Esquire Magazine. Grandma Elsie died in September 2007 and it was extremely difficult for Alice.

Personal life

Eve lives in London and Los Angeles. She has dated Ben Adams and Rafe Spall whom she met while working on The Rotters Club. She was once named sixth most eligible woman in Britain by Tatler magazine. In April 2009 she started dating a poet, Adam O'Riordan, whom she met when they were both undergraduates at Oxford. She also has two different colour eyes, one blue and one green.

Filmography

• Hawking (2004, TV) as Martha Guthrie
• Stage Beauty (2004) as Miss Frayne
• The Rotters' Club (2005, TV) as Cicely Boyd
• Beethoven (2005, TV) as Countess Giulietta Guicciardi
• Agatha Christie's Poirot: "The Mystery of the Blue Train" (2005, TV) as Lenox Tamplin
• Starter for 10 (2006) as Alice Harbinson
• Big Nothing (2006) as Josie McBroom
• Losing Gemma (2006, TV) as Esther
• The Amazing Trousers (2007, short) as Colette
• Crossing Over (2009) as Claire Shepard
• She's Out of My League (2010) as Molly McCleish
• Sex and the City 2 (2010) as Erin

External links

• Alice Eve at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview promoting The Rotters Club