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Eve Best (born as Emily Best, July 1971), is a British actress best known for her stage work.
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.
After a period working on the London fringe, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. After graduating in 1999 she appeared in a revival of 'Tis a Pity She's A Whore at the Young Vic for which she won both the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle best newcomer awards; she adopted her grandmother's name as a stage name, as an Emily Best was already registered with British Actors' Equity Association.citation needed
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 appears in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Cort Theatre in New York, which co-stars Ian McShane, Raúl Esparza and Michael McKean. Daniel Sullivan directs the 20-week limited engagement, which will run 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.
| Awards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Lois Smith for The Trip to Bountiful |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play 2006-2007 for A Moon for the Misbegotten |
Succeeded by Deanna Dunagan for August: Osage County |
External links
- Eve Best at the Internet Movie Database
- Eve Best at the Internet Broadway Database
- Interview with the Sunday Times
- W11 Opera
- Official The Homecoming on Broadway website
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