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Eve Best
	Eve Best at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Benefit, 2009
Born	Emily Best
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present

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Eve Best (born Emily Best on 31 July 1971), is an English actress, best known for her role as Dr. O'Hara in the Showtime television series Nurse Jackie.

Early life and education

Best grew up in Ladbroke Grove and attended Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School before going on to Lincoln College, Oxford where she read English. Among her earliest public performances were with the W11 Opera children's opera company in London at the age of nine. After graduating from Oxford where she had appeared in OUDS productions, and toured to the Edinburgh Festival, she made her professional debut as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Southwark Playhouse.

Career

After a period working on the London fringe, Best trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. After graduating in 1999 she appeared in a revival of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at the Young Vic for which she won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle best newcomer awards;^[1] she adopted her grandmother's name as a stage name, as an Emily Best was already registered with British Actors' Equity Association.^[2]

Best won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Hedda Gabler and was nominated for the same award the following year for her performance as Josie in Eugene O'Neill's play A Moon For The Misbegotten at the Old Vic Theatre in London.

In early 2007, she starred in a Sheffield Crucible production of As You Like It which played for a short time at the RSC's Swan Theatre in Stratford as part of their Complete Works season. In the same year she performed in the Broadway transfer of A Moon For The Misbegotten for which she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play.

Best appeared in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Cort Theatre in New York, which co-starred Ian McShane, Raúl Esparza and Michael McKean. Daniel Sullivan directed the 20-week limited engagement, which ran through April 13, 2008.

Television appearances include Prime Suspect: The Final Act (2006), Waking the Dead (2004), Shackleton (2002), and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2005).

She appears as Lucrece in the Naxos audiobook version of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece. She also starred in a 2000 BBC Radio 4 production of Emma.

Best costars as Dr. Elenor O'Hara in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, that premiered in June 2009.^[3]^[4]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	The Bill	Anne	Ep."Beasts"
2001	The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells	Ellen McGillvray	TV-minseries
2002	Shackleton	Eleanor Shackleton	TV
2004	Waking the Dead	Natasha Bloom	Ep."Shadowplay: Part 1"
	Lie with Me	Roselyn Tyler
	The Lodge	Yuni
2005	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Amanda Gibson	Ep."In Divine Proportion"
2006	Prime Suspect: The Final Act	Linda Philips	TV
2006	Vital Signs	Sarah Cartwright	6 episodes
2009–present	Nurse Jackie	Dr. Eleanor O'Hara
2010	American Experience	Dolley Madison	Ep. "Dolley Madison"

References

^ Paddock, Terri (18 August 2003). "20 Questions With...Eve Best". What's On Stage. Retrieved 2009-08-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ Henderson, Kathy. "Fresh Face: Eve Best". Broadway.com. Retrieved 2009-08-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Nurse Jackie: Official Site". Sho.com. Retrieved March 3, 2009.
^ Starr, Michael (June 30, 2008). "Nurse Edie: First Look at Sopranos Star's Dark, New Hospital Comedy". New York Post. NYPost.com. Retrieved March 8, 2009.

External links

Eve Best at IMDb
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Interview with the Sunday Times
W11 Opera
Official The Homecoming on Broadway website

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[WhatsonStage1-1] Paddock, Terri (18 August 2003). "20 Questions With...Eve Best". What's On Stage. Retrieved 2009-08-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[Broadway1-2] Henderson, Kathy. "Fresh Face: Eve Best". Broadway.com. Retrieved 2009-08-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[Showtime-3] "Nurse Jackie: Official Site". Sho.com. Retrieved March 3, 2009.

[NYP_2008-06-4] Starr, Michael (June 30, 2008). "Nurse Edie: First Look at Sopranos Star's Dark, New Hospital Comedy". New York Post. NYPost.com. Retrieved March 8, 2009.

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 Best won an [[Laurence Olivier Awards|Olivier Award]] for playing the title role in ''[[Hedda Gabler]]'' and was nominated for the same award the following year for her performance as Josie in [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s play ''[[A Moon for the Misbegotten|A Moon For The Misbegotten]]'' at the [[Old Vic]] Theatre in London.
-In early 2007 she starred in a [[Sheffield Crucible]] production of ''[[As You Like It]]'' which played for a short time at the RSC's Swan Theatre in Stratford as part of their Complete Works season. In the same year she performed in the Broadway transfer of ''A Moon For The Misbegotten'' for which she was nominated for a [[Tony Award]] as Best Actress in a Play.
+In early 2007, she starred in a [[Sheffield Crucible]] production of ''[[As You Like It]]'' which played for a short time at the RSC's Swan Theatre in Stratford as part of their Complete Works season. In the same year she performed in the Broadway transfer of ''A Moon For The Misbegotten'' for which she was nominated for a [[Tony Award]] as Best Actress in a Play.
 Best appeared in [[Harold Pinter]]'s ''[[The Homecoming]]'' at the [[Cort Theatre]] in New York, which co-starred [[Ian McShane]], [[Raúl Esparza]] and [[Michael McKean]]. Daniel Sullivan directed the 20-week limited engagement, which ran through April 13, 2008.