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| Alice Eve | |
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 Eve at San Diego Comic-Con International 2011 |
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| Born | Alice Sophia Eve 6 February 1982 London, England, U.K. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Parents | Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan |
Alice Sophia Eve[1] (born 6 February 1982) is an English actress. She is known for her lead in She's Out of My League and also appeared in Sex and the City 2. She will also star in the up-coming The Decoy Bride and Men in Black III.
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[edit] 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. Eve is of English, Welsh, and Irish descent.[2][3] 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.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
Eve has starred in television dramas including the BBC's The Rotters' Club, Poirot and Hawking,[citation needed] as well as the film Stage Beauty (2004).
Eve played significant roles in two 2006 films: Starter for 10 and Big Nothing (in which she and co-star Simon Pegg used American accents).[4] She spent the early part of 2006 in India working on a drama mini-series Losing Gemma about backpackers.[citation needed]
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 Theatre[5] 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.[citation needed] In 2009, she played Roxane in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Chichester Festival Theatre.[6]
She starred in the 2010 American film She's Out of My League. In the film, her parents play the roles of her character's parents. She also played the role of Charlotte's Irish nanny, Erin, in Sex and the City 2.[7] In 2011, Eve had a recurring guest role on the 8th season of the HBO series Entourage, playing Sophia, a journalist and love interest to Vincent Chase.[8]
[edit] Personal life
Eve lives in London and Los Angeles.[9]
Eve has different colour eyes (heterochromia); one eye is green and the other is blue.[10]
[edit] Film and television credits
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2004 | Stage Beauty | Miss Frayne | |
| 2004 | Hawking | Martha Guthrie | TV movie |
| 2005 | The Rotters' Club | Cicely Boyd | TV movie |
| 2005 | Beethoven | Countess Giulietta Guicciardi | Episode: "The Rebel" |
| 2005 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Lenox Tamplin | Episode: "The Mystery of the Blue Train" |
| 2006 | Starter for 10 | Alice Harbinson | |
| 2006 | Big Nothing | Josie McBroom | |
| 2006 | Losing Gemma | Esther | TV movie |
| 2007 | The Amazing Trousers | Colette | |
| 2009 | Crossing Over | Claire Shepard | |
| 2010 | She's Out of My League | Molly McCleish | |
| 2010 | Sex and the City 2 | Erin | |
| 2011 | Entourage | Sophia Lear | |
| 2011 | The Decoy Bride | Lara Tyler | |
| 2011 | ATM | Emily | |
| 2012 | The Raven | Virginia Clemm Poe | Post-production |
| 2012 | Men in Black III | Young Agent O | Post-production |
| 2013 | Untitled Star Trek sequel | Unspecified Role | Filming |
[edit] References
- ^ Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916-2005.; at ancestry.com
- ^ "Framed: Trevor Eve plays Quentin Lester". BBC. 2009-08-13. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/08_august/13/framed2.shtml. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ Feinstein, Sharon (2010-12-10). "Interview Sharon Maughan: We were so poor I never went by car, now I've got my own; Mercedes.". Sunday Mirror. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Interview+Sharon+Maughan%3A+We+were+so+poor+I+never+went+by+car,+now...-a067820513. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2006-12-01). "Big Nothing (review)". London: The Guardian. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1960703,00.html. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
- ^ Shenton, Mar (2006-12-02). "Alice Eve". Theatre.com. Archived from the original on 2006-11-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20061130010441/http://www.theatre.com/story/id/3003553. Retrieved 2006-12-02.
- ^ "Chichester Festival Theatre : What's On :". Cft.org.uk. http://www.cft.org.uk/cft-productions_cast.asp?pid=275&type=1. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
- ^ "I Got Cast in 'Sex and the City 2' - MSN Movies News". Movies.msn.com. 2009-09-24. http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=433040&silentchk=1&mpc=2. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
- ^ "'Entourage': Keep your ex's stepmother close...". CNN. August 22, 2011. http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/22/entourage-keep-your-exs-stepmother-close/. Retrieved September 8, 2011.
- ^ "jam.canoe.ca". jam.canoe.ca. 2009-03-13. http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/E/Eve_Alice/2009/03/13/8735476-sun.html. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
- ^ Goodwin, Christopher (2 May 2010). "Alice Eve: a star in the making". The Sunday Times (London). http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7110415.ece. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
