Eve Best

About Eve Best

Nurse Jackie and the film The King's Speech made her a household name in the United Kingdom.

Emily "Eve" Best is an English actress and director. She is known for her television roles such as Dr. Eleanor O'Hara in the Showtime Nurse Jackie series, First Lady Dolley Madison in the American Experience special and Monica Chatwin in the The Honorable Woman miniseries. BBC. She also played the role of Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech. Best won the 2005 Best Actress Olivier Award for the lead role in Hedda Gabler. She made her Broadway debut in the 2007 play A Moon for the Misbegotten, won the Drama Desk for Best Actress in a play and received the first of two Award nominations. Tony for Best Actress in a Play; second is for the revival of The Homecoming in 2008. She returned to Broadway in the 2015 revival of the Old Times. She was cast as Rhaenys Velaryon in HBO's Dragon House.

Alma mater	Lincoln College, Oxford, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Years active	1995–present
Born	Emily Best, July 31, 1971, Ladbroke Grove, London
Occupation	Actress, director

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Trivia

She was nominated for a Best Actress Tony Award in 2007 for her performance in A Moon for the Misbegotten on Broadway.

Eve Best before fame

She attended Lincoln College (Oxford) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, where she swiftly established herself in the British professional theatre scene.

Achievement of Eve Best

In 2007, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress for her portrayal on Broadway in A Moon for the Misbegotten.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$3 Million

Eve Best family life

Her stage name was based on her grandmother's name. Emily Best, her birth name, had already been registered with the British actors' union.

Associations of Eve Best

In a 2013 British television film on the 1986 Challenger accident, she portrayed astronaut Sally Ride.

Eve Best Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

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Height	178 cm
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