Eve Best

Eve Best is an acclaimed actor of stage and screen.

A graduate of RADA, Eve won the 1999 Best Newcomer Evening Standard Award and Best Newcomer Critics’ Circle Award for her performance in Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Young Vic), and the 2005 Best Actress Olivier Award for Hedda Gabler (Almeida/Duke of York’s).

Her other stage credits include playing Mrs Arbuthnot in Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance, directed by Dominic Dromgoole; Old Times on Broadway alongside Clive Owen; and Love In Idleness at the Menier Chocolate Factory and in the West End.

In 2007 she made her Broadway debut in A Moon for the Misbegotten, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, and receiving the first of two Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play; the second was for the revival of The Homecoming in 2008.

Her other theatre credits include The Heiress, The Cherry Orchard, The Coast of Utopia, Three Sisters and Mourning Becomes Electra for the National Theatre, The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra for Shakespeare’s Globe.

Eve is known for her television roles including Dr. Eleanor O’Hara in the US hits series Nurse Jackie, the American Experience, BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman and Stan Lee’s Lucky Man.

More about A Woman of No Importance

A Woman of No Importance runs from 6 October 2017 until 30 December 2017 at the Vaudeville Theatre.