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British actress (born )

Emily "Eve" Best (born 31 July ) is an English actress and director.^[1] She is known for her television roles as Dr Eleanor O'Hara in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (–), First LadyDolley Madison in the American Experience television special (), Monica Chatwin in the BBC miniseries The Honourable Woman () and Princess Rhaenys Targaryen in HBO's House of the Dragon (–).

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She also played Wallis Simpson in the film The King's Speech.

Best won the Olivier Award for Best Actress for playing the title role in Hedda Gabler. She made her Broadway debut in the 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 She returned to Broadway in the revival of Old Times.^[2] Rendezései:Bacbeth Globe theatre

Early life and education

Best grew up in Ladbroke Grove, London, the daughter of a design journalist and an actress.^[1] Her early performances were with the W11 Opera children's opera company in London at the age of nine.

She 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.^[3]

Career

After working on the London fringe, Best trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.^[1] After graduating in 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;^[4] she adopted her grandmother's name as a stage name, as an Emily Best was already registered with British Actors' Equity Association.^[5]

Best won a Laurence Olivier Award for playing the title role in Hedda Gabler^[6] 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.^[7]

In early , she starred in a Sheffield Crucible production of As You Like It^[8] which played for a short time at the RSC's Swan Theatre in Stratford^[9] as part of their Complete Works season.

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In the same year she performed in the Broadway transfer of A Moon for the Misbegotten^[10] for which she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play.^[11]

Best appeared in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Cort Theatre in New York,^[12] which co-starred Ian McShane, Raúl Esparza and Michael McKean.

Daniel Sullivan directed the week limited engagement, which ran until 13 April She once again appeared as Beatrice in a critically acclaimed production of Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in ,^[13] playing opposite Charles Edwards as Benedick and starred in the Old Vic production of The Duchess of Malfi in She made her directorial debut with a production of Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in ^[14]

Television appearances include Prime Suspect: The Final Act (), Waking the Dead (),Shackleton (), and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ().

She appeared as Lucrece in the Naxos audiobook version of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece. She also starred in a BBC Radio 4 production of Emma.

Best co-starred as Dr Eleanor O'Hara in the Showtimedark comedy series Nurse Jackie, that premiered in June ^[15] 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 for TV dramatization of the Rogers Commission set up to investigate the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

In summer Best played Cleopatra, the leading role in the Shakespeare's Globe version of Antony and Cleopatra.^[16] She returned to Broadway in the revival of the Pinter play Old Times, opposite Clive Owen and Kelly Reilly.^[2] She played headmistress Farah Dowling in Fate: The Winx Saga.^[17]

The TV series Maryland^[18] aired in May on ITV1, with Best playing Rosaline, who is reuniting with her sister Becca (Suranne Jones) after their mother's body is found dead on the Isle of Man.^[19]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Location
	Much Ado About Nothing	Beatrice	Southwark Playhouse, London
	Sisters, Brothers	Gate Theatre, London
	'Tis Pity She's a Whore	Annabella	Young Vic, London
	The Heiress	Catherine	Royal National Theatre, London
	The Cherry Orchard	Varya	Royal National Theatre, London
	Macbeth	Lady Macbeth	Shakespeare's Globe, London
	The Misanthrope	Jennifer	Chichester Festival Theatre
	The Coast of Utopia	Liubov Bakunin	Royal National Theatre, London
	Three Sisters	Masha	Royal National Theatre, London
	Mourning Becomes Electra	Lavinia Mannon	Royal National Theatre, London
	Hedda Gabler	Hedda	Almeida, London and Duke of York's Theatre, London
–07	A Moon for the Misbegotten	Josie	Old Vic, London and Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York
	As You Like It	Rosalind	Sheffield Crucible and Swan Theatre (Stratford)
–08	The Homecoming	Ruth	Cort Theatre, New York
	Much Ado About Nothing	Beatrice	Shakespeare's Globe, London
	The Duchess of Malfi	The Duchess	Old Vic, London
	Macbeth	Director	Shakespeare's Globe, London
	Antony and Cleopatra	Cleopatra	Shakespeare's Globe, London
	Old Times	Anna	American Airlines Theatre, Broadway
	Love in Idleness	Olivia Brown	Menier Chocolate Factory, Apollo Theatre, London
	A Woman of No Importance	Mrs Arbuthnot	Vaudeville, London

Awards and nominations

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