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Eve in 2012
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Born |
Alice Sophia Eve 6 February 1982 London, England, United Kingdom |
Education | BA in English |
Alma mater |
Bedales School Westminster School St Catherine's College, Oxford |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2004–present |
Spouse(s) | Alex Cowper-Smith (m. 2014) |
Parent(s) |
Trevor Eve Sharon Maughan |
Alice Sophia Eve (born 6 February 1982) is an English actress.
Eve was born in London, the daughter of actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan. She attended Bedales School, and More House 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 The Importance of Being Earnest, Animal Crackers (which toured to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Scenes from an Execution and The Colour of Justice.
Eve has appeared in television dramas such as the BBC's The Rotters' Club, Agatha Christie's Poirot and Hawking and starred in the film Stage Beauty (2004).
In 2006, she starred in two comedy films: Starter for 10 and Big Nothing (in which she and co-star Simon Pegg put on American accents). She spent the early part of 2006 in India working on a drama mini-series Losing Gemma about backpackers.