1. Emily "Eve" Best was born on 31 July 1971 and is an English actress and director.
18 Facts About Eve Best
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Eve Best is known for her television roles as Dr Eleanor O'Hara in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie, First Lady Dolley Madison in the American Experience television special, Monica Chatwin in the BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman and Princess Rhaenys Targaryen in HBO's House of the Dragon.
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Eve Best played Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech.
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Eve Best made her Broadway debut in the 2007 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, and receiving the first of two nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play; the second was for the revival of The Homecoming in 2008.
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Eve Best returned to Broadway in the 2015 revival of Old Times.
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Eve Best grew up in Ladbroke Grove, London, the daughter of a design journalist and an actress.
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Eve Best attended Wycombe Abbey Girls' School before going on to Lincoln College, Oxford, where she studied English.
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Eve Best won a Laurence 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.
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Eve Best appeared in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Cort Theatre in New York, which co-starred Ian McShane, Raul Esparza and Michael McKean.
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Eve Best appeared as Beatrice in a critically acclaimed production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2011, playing opposite Charles Edwards as Benedick and starred in the Old Vic production of The Duchess of Malfi in 2012.
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Eve Best made her directorial debut with a production of Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2013.
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Eve Best starred in a 2000 BBC Radio 4 production of Emma.
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Eve Best co-starred as Dr Eleanor O'Hara in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, that premiered in June 2009.
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Eve Best co-starred as Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, alongside William Hurt in The Challenger Disaster, a British made for TV dramatization of the Rogers Commission set up to investigate the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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In summer 2014 Eve Best played Cleopatra, the leading role in the Shakespeare's Globe version of Antony and Cleopatra.
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Eve Best returned to Broadway in the 2015 revival of the Pinter play Old Times, opposite Clive Owen and Kelly Reilly.
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Eve Best played headmistress Farah Dowling in Fate: The Winx Saga.
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The TV series Maryland aired in May 2023 on ITV1, with Eve Best playing Rosaline, who is reuniting with her sister Becca after their mother's body is found dead on the Isle of Man.