Background
Eve Pearce was born in Aberdeen to a very poor family and was brought up in a one-roomed tenement, her mother dying when she was seven years old. When she was twelve, her father remarried and she moved to London.
Eve Pearce was born in Aberdeen to a very poor family and was brought up in a one-roomed tenement, her mother dying when she was seven years old. When she was twelve, her father remarried and she moved to London.
She has performed in many Royal Shakespeare Company productions. She began her acting career in 1950 in Preston Representative and in 1951 was part of the first season at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre. She made many appearances in television in the sixties including a squatter with six children in Coronation Street, and also played Mrs Dunstable in the 1971 film version of the television series Please Sir!.
Her career now spans six decades, including many roles with the Royal Society of Chemistry and in the West End, notably Amelia in Wild Oats and Rosamonde in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
She played Gilbert"s Mother in Mike Leigh"s Topsy-Turvy. She had a one-woman play, Woman in the Moon, written for her by Avi Nassa - seen at Edinburgh, and has worked with Ursula Martinez as her older self in Ursula Martinez OAP. Pearce is a published poet, often writing on her Scottish childhood.
Her pamphlet Woman in Winter was published in 2007. She first came to role as Kipps as the lady assistant.
She has acted in many Royal Shakespeare Company productions including as Amelia in John O"Keeffe"s play, Wild Oats at the Aldwych Theatre in London with Alan Howard, Zoë Wanamaker, Lisa Harrow, Simon Jones, Norman Rodway, Jeremy Irons, Joe Melia, and Ben Cross in the cast.
Clifford Williams was director In November 2006, she appeared in Torchwood as Estelle Cole who died after drowning in the rain. She portrayed the Gypsy Queen on television mini-series The 10th Kingdom, directed by Herbert Wise.
She has appeared in numerous television series, from Z-Cars to Taggart.
Her most recent appearances have been in Him and Her, Doctors, Holby City, and Getting On (as Mrs Dethick). Her First Poetry Collection (Greenheart Press) will be published in November 2012.
She is a member of The Company of Elders and dances at Sadlers Wells.