Actor / Director Profile

Alice was born in England. Her father is Trevor Eve and her mother is Sharon Maughan, both fellow actors. She is the eldest of 3 children. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was young as her father tried to crack the American market. However, they returned to the UK when she was age 13. She attended a school in Chichester for a year, whilst her mother appeared in a play. She then moved to Bedales School, where she first started acting in Les Misérables and Twelfth Night. She took her A-Levels at Westminster School in London. She took a gap year before starting university to study at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Afterwards, she returned to the UK to read English at St Catherine's College, Oxford University. While at university, 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.Alice appeared in television dramas as well as two plays by Trevor Nunn and the play Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard. She got her first film role in Starter for 10 (2006) with James McAvoy and followed that with the film Big Nothing (2006) alongside Simon Pegg. In 2006, she went to India to shoot the UK miniseries Losing Gemma (2006) (TV). Alice was introduced to American audiences in the film Crossing Over (2009). Her first high-profile role was in Sex and the City 2 (2010), where she played Charlotte's Irish nanny.The biggest inspiration in her life has been her Grandma Betsy, who died in September 2007.Eve lives in London and the United States.