Eve Best (born as Emily Best, July 1971), is a British actress best known for her stage work. Best grew up in Ladbroke Grove and attended Wycombe Abbey Girls’ School before going on to Lincoln College, Oxford where she read English. Among her earliest public performances were with the W11 Opera children\s opera company in London at the age of nine. After graduating from Oxford where she had appeared in OUDS productions, and toured to the Edinburgh Festival, she made her professional debut as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Southwark Playhouse. After a period working on the London fringe, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. After graduating in 1999 she appeared in a revival of \Tis a 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