Eve Pearce was born in Aberdeen to a very poor family and was brought up in a one-roomed tenement, her mother dying when she was seven years old.
11 Facts About Eve Pearce
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Eve Pearce won an LCC Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1948 and got married in her second term to James Ormerod.
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Eve Pearce began her acting career in 1950 in Preston Rep and in 1951 was part of the first season at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
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Eve Pearce's career spanned seven decades, including many roles with the RSC and in the West End, notably Amelia in Wild Oats and Rosamonde in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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Eve Pearce had a one-woman play, Woman in the Moon, written for her by Avi Nassa - seen at Edinburgh, and has worked with Ursula Martinez as her older self in Ursula Martinez OAP.
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Eve Pearce was a member of The Company of Elders and danced at Sadlers Wells.
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Eve Pearce first came to role as Kipps as the lady assistant.
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Eve Pearce acted in many Royal Shakespeare Company productions including as Amelia in John O'Keeffe's play, Wild Oats at the Aldwych Theatre in London with Alan Howard, Zoe Wanamaker, Lisa Harrow, Simon Jones, Norman Rodway, Jeremy Irons, Joe Melia, and Ben Cross in the cast.
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Eve Pearce portrayed the Gypsy Queen in the television mini-series The 10th Kingdom, directed by Herbert Wise.
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Eve Pearce played the German Kaiserin in the mini-serie Fall of Eagles in 1974 then Madame Giselle in the 1992 TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'Death in the Clouds'.
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Eve Pearce died at Denville Hall in Northwood, London on 13 January 2023, at the age of 93.