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Introduction
Eve Best is an English actress and director. She is best known for her television roles as Dr. Eleanor O’Hara in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–13), First Lady Dolley Madison in the American Experience television special (2011), and Monica Chatwin in the BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman (2014). 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. She was cast as Rhaenys Velaryon in HBO’s House of the Dragon.
Early life
| Name | Eve Best |
| Net Worth | $4 million |
| Occupation | Actress, Director |
| Age | 51 years |
| Height | 1.68m |
Emily “Eve” Best was born on July 31, 1971 (age 51 years) in Ladbroke Grove, London, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of a design journalist and an actress. Her early performances were with the W11 Opera children’s opera company in London at the age of nine.
Eve Best attended Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School before going on to Lincoln College, Oxford, where she studied English. After graduating from Oxford where she had appeared in Oxford University Dramatic Society productions and performed at the Edinburgh Festival, she made her professional debut as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Southwark Playhouse.
Career
Eve Best trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London after working on the London fringe. After graduating in 1999 she appeared in a revival of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at the Young Vic for which she won both the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle best newcomer awards; she adopted her grandmother’s name as a stage name, as an Emily Best was already registered with British Actors’ Equity Association.
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Best won a Laurence Olivier Award for playing the title role in Hedda Gabler and was nominated for the same award the following year for her performance as Josie in Eugene O’Neill’s play A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
In early 2007, she starred in a Sheffield Crucible production of As You Like It which played for a short time at the RSC’s Swan Theatre in Stratford as part of their Complete Works season. In the same year, she performed in the Broadway transfer of A Moon for the Misbegotten for which she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play.
Eve Best appeared in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming at the Cort Theatre in New York, which co-starred Ian McShane, Raúl Esparza and Michael McKean. Daniel Sullivan directed the 20-week limited engagement, which ran until 13 April 2008.
She once again appeared as Beatrice in a critically acclaimed production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in 2011, playing opposite Charles Edwards as Benedick and starred in the Old Vic production of The Duchess of Malfi in 2012.
Eve Best made her directorial debut with a production of Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in 2013. Television appearances include Prime Suspect: The Final Act (2006), Waking the Dead (2004), Shackleton (2002), and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2005).
She appeared as Lucrece in the Naxos audiobook version of Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece. She also starred in a 2000 BBC Radio 4 production of Emma. Eve Best co-starred as Dr. Eleanor O’Hara in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, which premiered in June 2009. She played the Duchess of Windsor – Wallis Simpson – in The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush.
Best also co-starred as Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, alongside William Hurt in The Challenger Disaster, a British-made TV dramatization of the Rogers Commission set up to investigate the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
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In the summer of 2014 Eve Best played Cleopatra, the leading role in the Shakespeare’s Globe version of Antony and Cleopatra. She returned to Broadway in the 2015 revival of the Pinter play Old Times, opposite Clive Owen and Kelly Reilly. She played headmistress Farah Dowling in Fate: The Winx Saga.
Husband
Eve Best is married to Maximillion Cooper, they had their wedding in 2014. Her husband is a private person and they started dating back in 2010. Eve Best stands at an appealing height of 1.68m and has a good body weight which suits her personality. As of mid-2022, Eve Best and her husband Maximillion Cooper are still married and has disclosed the information related to their children’s life.
Eve Best net worth
How much is Eve Best worth? Eve Best net worth is estimated at around $4 million. Her main source of income is from her career as an actress and director. Eve Best’s salary per month with other career earnings is over $1 million annually. She is one of the richest and most influential actresses in the United Kingdom. Her successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips.