Eve Best

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. Fact|date=September 2007

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 "" (2006), "Waking the Dead (2004)," "Shackleton (2002)", and "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2005)."

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* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2334862,00.html Interview with the "Sunday Times"]
* [http://w11opera.org/patrons.html W11 Opera]
* [http://www.thehomecomingonbroadway.com Official "The Homecoming" on Broadway website]