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Alice Sophia Eve was born in London, England. Her father is Trevor Eve and her mother is Sharon Maughan, both fellow actors. She is the eldest of three children. Eve has English, Irish and Welsh ancestry. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young as her father tried to crack the American market. However, they returned to the United Kingdom when she was age 13.

She attended a school in Chichester for a year, whilst her mother appeared in a play. She then moved to Bedales School, where she first started acting in "Les Misérables" and "Twelfth Night". She took her A-Levels at Westminster School in London. She took a gap year before starting the university to study at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Afterwards, she returned to the United Kingdom to read English at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. While at the university, she appeared in student productions of "An Ideal Husband", "Animal Crackers" (which toured to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), "Scenes from an Execution" and "The Colour of Justice".

Alice appeared in television dramas as well as two plays by Trevor Nunn and the play "Rock 'n' Roll" by Tom Stoppard. She got her first film role in Starter for 10 (2006) with James McAvoy and followed that with the film Big Nothing (2006) alongside Simon Pegg. In 2006, she went to India to shoot the British miniseries Losing Gemma (2006). Alice was introduced to American audiences in the film Crossing Over (2009). Her first high-profile role was in the sequel Sex and the City 2 (2010), where she played Charlotte York's Irish nanny. She also played the female lead role in She's Out of My League (2010), where her parents also played her character's parents.

[on playing <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0000590/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Edgar Allan Poe</a>&#39;s lover in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt1486192/?ref_=nmqu_qu">The Raven (2012)</a>] I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don&#39;t make many films about the life of a poet. When I read the script, I thought, &quot;This is just amazing&quot;-- because it wasn&#39;t indulgent. It allowed itself to have a thrilling aspect.

[on cultural differences between the US and UK] You know, we&#39;re divided by a common language, even though we&#39;re meant to have been from the same place. There is a definite shift when I get on the plane and I land. It&#39;s very Puritan in America, and it&#39;s a different culture in England and much more European in its belief system. In the United States, it&#39;s quite strict.

I&#39;m a girl&#39;s girl. I love to hang out with boys--I&#39;ve got brothers--but I&#39;m a girl&#39;s girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality television and popular culture . . . Did going to Oxford and reading &quot;Paradise Lost&quot; change that? No.

[on performing nude] I don&#39;t have any aversion to flesh or showing it. I think if you&#39;ve got flesh then it should be shown. Besides, you limit yourself if you are against all that because it&#39;s part of the job really.

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