Eve Best is an English actress and director. She is the daughter of Susanna Best.
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The name of her father is not public knowledge. However, her father was a design journalist. Her mother is an actress.
At the age of nine, she made her debut with the W11 Opera children’s opera group in London.
She attended Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School before going on to study English at Lincoln College, Oxford.
She made her professional debut as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Southwark Playhouse after graduating from Oxford, where she had starred in Oxford University Dramatic Society productions and performed at the Edinburgh Festival.
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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), and Monica Chatwin in the BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman (2014).
She made her Broadway debut in the 2007 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, where she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play and received the first of two Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play; the second came in 2008 for the revival of The Homecoming.
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