Eve Best

Personal context

Summary

Eve Best is an English actor and director known for stage roles including Hedda Gabler and The Duchess of Malfi, and screen work in Nurse Jackie, The King’s Speech and House of the Dragon. Her stage and screen work often centers on complex, forceful women. In interviews, she has said Hollywood’s post-#MeToo changes need to move faster and called for more women over 40 to lead romances, adventures and dramas without being confined to maternal or supporting roles. She has also described habitat restoration at her family’s Welsh farm with the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust; no public party campaigning or broader identity advocacy is on record.