Trevor Eve
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 Eve at the 2008 BAFTA Television Awards |
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| Born | Trevor John Eve 1 July 1951 Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England |
| Spouse(s) | Sharon Maughan (1980 - present) |
Trevor John Eve (born 1 July 1951) 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.
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[edit] Early life
Eve was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham and educated at Bromsgrove School. He had little acting experience throughout his school days. In his early years Eve wanted to be an artist, but was dissuaded from this career path by his father for financial reasons. He studied architecture instead at Kingston Polytechnic College in London, but dropped out of the course to enrol at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
[edit] Career
Eve has enjoyed a long and successful acting career on stage, television and film, with his career spanning back to the 1970s. One of his early stage successes was portraying Paul McCartney in Willy Russell's play John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End in 1974.
His first major film role was in Dracula (1979). playing Jonathan Harker.
Eve appeared in Hindle Wakes (1976) directed by Laurence Olivier as part of the Laurence Olivier Presents TV series.
In 1979 and 1980 he became famous throughout the UK for playing the role of the private investigator Eddie Shoestring in Shoestring.
In 1982 he was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for "Best Actor in a New Play" (1981 theatre season), for his performance in Children of a Lesser God. In 1997 he was awarded his second Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his 1996 performance in Uncle Vanya at the Noël Coward Theatre. He co-starred with Natasha Richardson and Stephen Rea in the 1987 London stage production of Cole Porter's High Society .
He played Superintendent Albert Tyburn in the 1998 Carlton Television/WGBH Boston television series Heat of the Sun, which was filmed in Zimbabwe.[1]
In September 2000 Eve starred in the pilot episode of the award-winning BBC drama series Waking the Dead. Eve plays the central role of Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd, the head of a team of CID detectives, the Cold Case Unit.
In 2004 he played the role of Velior in Troy, with Brad Pitt.
Following this he played Dr Patrick Stowe, a fertility expert in The Family Man in 2006.
Eve co-owns a TV company called Projector Productions which produced Twelfth Night for Channel 4.
In April 2008 Eve starred as game show host and TV personality Hughie Green in the BBC Four biographical film Hughie Green, Most Sincerely.[2]
[edit] Personal life
In 1979, Eve met actress Sharon Maughan when they both had parts in the West End show Filumena. In 1980, they married and now have three children, including Alice who is also an actress. Eve appeared as Maughan's ex-husband in the famous television advertisements for Taster's Choice coffee (known as Nescafé Gold Blend in the UK).
Eve's interests include golf, painting, squash and tennis. He is also involved with a street charity called Child Hope International.
In 1995, while playing polo, he was seriously injured when he fell badly from his pony, and temporarily unable to act he took up production. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ Heat of the Sun at PBS Mystery!
- ^ Ruston, Susie (1 April 2008). "Trevor Eve: Nice but nasty". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/trevor-eve-nice-but-nasty-803091.html. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ All About Eve, interview with Chrissy Iley for The Radio Times, July 2004
[edit] External links
- Trevor Eve Online, a fan-made website sanctioned by Eve
- Trevor Eve at the Internet Movie Database
- Trevor Eve at the BBC Drama Faces
