Eve Best | |
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 Eve Best in 2007 | |
| Born | Emily Best 31 July 1971 |
| Education | |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, director |
| Years active | 1995–present |
Emily "Eve" Best (born 31 July 1971) is an English actress and director.[1] She is known for her television roles as Dr Eleanor O'Hara in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–2013), First Lady Dolley Madison in the American Experience television special (2011), Monica Chatwin in the BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman (2014) and Princess Rhaenys Targaryen in HBO's House of the Dragon. She also played Wallis Simpson in the 2010 film The King's Speech.
Best won the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Actress for playing the title role in Hedda Gabler. She made her Broadway debut in the 2007 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, and receiving the first of two nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play; the second was for the revival of The Homecoming in 2008. She returned to Broadway in the 2015 revival of Old Times.[2]
- ^ Sercher, Benjamin (19 June 2013). "Eve Best interview: on returning to the stage as a director". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ Old Times Archived 13 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the American Airlines Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company