Eve Best
- Actress
- Director
Attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She was nominated for the 2008 Tony Award (New York City) for Best
Actress in a Drama for "The Homecoming".
She was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Best
Actress in a Drama for "A Moon for the Misbegotten".
She won the 2005 Olivier Award for Best Actress & London Critics Circle
Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance as the title role in
Hedda Gabler.
She was awarded the 2003 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best
Actress for her performance in Mourning Becomes Electra performed at
the Royal National Theatre.
She was awarded the 1999 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most
Promising Newcomer and the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for
Best Newcomer for her performance in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore performed
at the Young Vic Theatre.
She studied English at Oxford University.
Other theatre credits include: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) Shakespeares
Globe, London; As You Like It (Rosalind) RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford
Upon Avon & Sheffield Crucible; The Cherry Orchard (Varya) Royal
National Theatre, London; Three Sisters (Masha) Royal National Theatre,
London; The Coast of Utopia, Royal National Theatre, London; The
Heiress, Royal National Theatre, London; and Le Misanthrope, Chichester
Festival Theatre
Radio: The Rape of Lucrece, Emma, Brideshead Revisited, Dr Zhivago,
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV: Nurse Jackie (Showtime) The Shadow Line (BBC) Dolley Madison (The
American Experience, PBS) Prime Suspect VII (BBC) Shackleton (BBC)
Film: The Kings Speech
In 2011, Eve returned to Shakespeare's Globe in London to play Beatrice
in Much Ado About Nothing.
She was nominated for the 2008 Tony Award (New York City) for Best
Actress in a Drama for "The Homecoming".
She was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Best
Actress in a Drama for "A Moon for the Misbegotten".
She won the 2005 Olivier Award for Best Actress & London Critics Circle
Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance as the title role in
Hedda Gabler.
She was awarded the 2003 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best
Actress for her performance in Mourning Becomes Electra performed at
the Royal National Theatre.
She was awarded the 1999 London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most
Promising Newcomer and the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for
Best Newcomer for her performance in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore performed
at the Young Vic Theatre.
She studied English at Oxford University.
Other theatre credits include: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) Shakespeares
Globe, London; As You Like It (Rosalind) RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford
Upon Avon & Sheffield Crucible; The Cherry Orchard (Varya) Royal
National Theatre, London; Three Sisters (Masha) Royal National Theatre,
London; The Coast of Utopia, Royal National Theatre, London; The
Heiress, Royal National Theatre, London; and Le Misanthrope, Chichester
Festival Theatre
Radio: The Rape of Lucrece, Emma, Brideshead Revisited, Dr Zhivago,
Martin Chuzzlewit
TV: Nurse Jackie (Showtime) The Shadow Line (BBC) Dolley Madison (The
American Experience, PBS) Prime Suspect VII (BBC) Shackleton (BBC)
Film: The Kings Speech
In 2011, Eve returned to Shakespeare's Globe in London to play Beatrice
in Much Ado About Nothing.