• Facts
Birth Name: Alice Sophia Eve
Date of Birth: February 6, 1982
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Age: 29
Height: 5′ 5¼” (1.66 m)
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Has heterochromia; her right eye is green and her left blue
Family: Daughter of Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan, older sister of Jack Eve and George Eve
• Biography
Alice Sophia Eve, born 6 February 1982, is an English actress. Alice was born in London, England, the daughter of actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan. She has two younger brothers, Jack and George. They are of English, Welsh, and Irish descent. She attended Bedales 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 Alice appeared in student productions of An Ideal Husband, Animal Crackers (which toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Scenes from an Execution and The Colour of Justice.
Alice has starred in television dramas including the BBC’s The Rotters’ Club, Poirot and Hawking, as well as the film Stage Beauty (2004).
She played significant roles in two 2006 films: Starter for 10 and Big Nothing (in which she and co-star Simon Pegg used American accents). She spent the early part of 2006 in India working on a drama mini-series Losing Gemma about backpackers.
Eve has appeared in two plays, both directed by Trevor Nunn. In 2006, she appeared in Rock ‘n’ Roll, a new play by Tom Stoppard at the Royal Court Theatre and reprised her role in the 2007 Broadway transfer. For her performance, she was nominated for the best supporting actress award at the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards. In 2009, Alice played Roxane in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
Alice starred in the 2010 US film She’s Out of My League. In the film, her parents play the roles of her character’s parents. She also played the role of Charlotte’s Irish nanny, Erin, in Sex and the City 2. Eve will also star in the upcoming The Decoy Bride and Men in Black III.
Eve lives in London and Los Angeles. She has dated popstar Ben Adams, actor Rafe Spall, whom she met while working on The Rotters Club. In April 2009, Alice started dating a poet, Adam O’Riordan, whom she met when they were both undergraduates at Oxford.
