Eve Pearce
Eve Pearce is a Scottish actress. She has performed in many Royal Shakespeare Company productions.
Eve Pearce was born in Aberdeen to a very poor family and was brought up in a oneroomed tenement, her mother dying when she was seven years old. When she was twelve, her father remarried and she moved to London. She won an LCC Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1948 and got married in her second term to James Ormerod. She began her acting career in 1950 in Preston Rep 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 TV series Please Sir!. Her career now spans six decades, including many roles with the RSC and in the West End, notably Amelia in Wild Oats and Rosamonde in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. She played Gilberts Mother in Mike Leighs TopsyTurvy. She had a onewoman play, Woman in the Moon, written for her by Avi Nassa seen at Edinburgh, and has worked with Ursula
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