Background
Hermione Eyre was born in 1980.
Hermione Eyre was born in 1980.
Eyre studied at Rugby School, joining at the age of 13 in the first year that the school began to admit girls.
Her parents are Reginald Eyre, a British Conservative party politician, and Anne Clements. Eyre read English at Hertford College, Oxford. After university, Eyre trained as a croupier at the Bermondsey Casino Training Centre, and worked for a year at a London casino, dealing roulette and blackjack.
Acting At the age of seven, Eyre acted in About Face, a sitcom with Maureen Lipman.
She also acted as a young Agatha Christie in a British Broadcasting Corporation production. In 1990, Eyre obtained a role as Zinnie in the film The Children with Kim Novak and Ben Kingsley.
Aged twelve, Eyre acted in her final role - as the Kid Clementina in an episode of the television series Jeeves and Wooster. Journalism Eyre worked at The Independent as a staff writer for seven years.
She was also a television critic for that newspaper.
She has also written for the New Statesman, and The Spectator.