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EVE BEST (Anna)<\/strong> is an award-winning, classically trained British actress. She has twice been nominated for a Tony Award: in 2008 for her portrayal of \u201cRuth\u201d in The Homecoming<\/em>, directed by Daniel Sullivan, and in 2007 for the role of \u201cJosie\u201d opposite Kevin Spacey in Moon for the Misbegotten<\/em>. She won a Drama Desk and an Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress for her role in Moon for the Misbegotten<\/em>. She made her professional London stage debut starring opposite Jude Law in Tis Pity She\u2019s a Whore<\/em>, and won both the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer and the London Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Newcomer 1999. In 2003, she won the London Critics Circle award for Best Actress in Mourning Becomes Electra<\/em>, and in 2005 she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress a London Critics Circle Award for Hedda Gabler<\/em>. Other theatre credits include Three Sisters<\/em>, The Coast of Utopia<\/em>, The Heiress<\/em>, The Cherry Orchard<\/em> (Royal National Theatre); As You Like It<\/em> (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Misanthrope<\/em> (Chichester Festiival Theatre); and Macbeth<\/em> (Shakespeare\u2019s Globe).<\/p>

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Her feature film debut was in The King\u2019s Speech<\/em> directed by Tom Hooper, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her American television debut was as \u201cDr. O\u2019Hara\u201d in Showtime\u2019s critically acclaimed and Emmy nominated series, \u201cNurse Jackie.\u201d She has also starred as the title role in \u201cDolley Madison\u201d for PBS, as well as \u201cThe Shadow Line,\u201d \u201cPrime Suspect VII,\u201d \u201cLie With Me,\u201d \"Other Peoples Children\u201d and \u201cShackleton.\u201d Eve is a director of Shakespeare Link, a company that works with Shakespeare plays as a source of education and empowerment around the world. She has led Shakespeare workshops in London, Northern Ireland, Wales and New York, and in 2009 travelled to Africa to create a cross cultural production of Romeo & Juliet<\/em> as part of an AIDS relief program in Mozambique.<\/p>","website":"","alt":null}