Alice Eve (born 6 February 1982) is a British actress.

Biography

Early life
Eve is the daughter of actors Trevor Eve and Sharon Maughan and has two younger brothers, Jack and George. She was raised in the UK and Los Angeles. Eve attended Bedales and then did 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 she 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.

Career
She has starred in television dramas including the BBC's The Rotters' Club, Poirot and Hawking, as well as the film Stage Beauty (2004).

Eve played significant roles in two 2006 films: Starter for 10 and Big Nothing (with both she and co-star Simon Pegg using American accents). She spent the early part of 2006 in India working on a new 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 she played Roxane in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

She appears in the forthcoming U.S. films She's Out of My League and Sex and the City 2.

Eve also aspires to be a screenwriter.

Personal life
Eve lives in London and Los Angeles.

She has dated Ben Adams, Rafe Spall whom she met while working on The Rotters Club, and from 2006-2008 dated her Rock 'n' Roll co-star Rufus Sewell. She was once named sixth most eligible woman in Britain by Tatler magazine. In April 2009 she starting dating a poet, Adam O'Riordan, whom she met when they were both undergraduates at Oxford.

Quotes
* "There is an acting gene that has been passed down to me by my parents. It's nature, not nurture." Alice Eve in interview with ES magazine, September 2005

Filmography
* Hawking (2004, TV) as Martha Guthrie
* Stage Beauty (2004) as Miss Frayne
* The Rotters' Club (2005, TV) as Cicely Boyd
* Beethoven (2005, TV) as Countess Giulietta Guicciardi
* Agatha Christie's Poirot: "The Mystery of the Blue Train" (2005, TV) as Lenox Tamplin
* Starter for 10 (2006) as Alice Harbinson
* Big Nothing (2006) as Josie McBroom
* Losing Gemma (2006, TV) as Esther
* The Amazing Trousers (2007, short) as Colette
* Crossing Over (2009) as Claire Shepard
* She's Out of My League (2010) as Molly McCall