Alice Eve

VANITIES

All Is VANITIES ... Nothing Is Fair

OCTOBER

2007

AGE: 25.PROVENANCE: London (though she "kind of grew up in L.A. too"). TIIUMPHANTLY CIOSSING THE ATLANTIC... to reprise her role as, er, Alice in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's epic, intricate play Rock In' Roll, which, under the direction of Trevor Nunn, wowed `em in its West End debut last year. "The Royal Court Theatre Iwhere the ploy hrst ran in Londonj was magical," she says. "We did these bye weeks of rehearsals with Tom and Trevor in the room, and they're some serious brains." AND SPEAKING OF SERIOUS BRAINS: Eve studied at Oxford and was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, or OUDS, whose alumni include Sir John Gielgud, Evelyn Waugh, Kenneth Tynan, Rowan Atkinson, and Hugh Grant. "We have three theaters there where you can put plays on, and they're open to the public," she says. "It's really cool to play a 40-year-old psycho, someone you wouldn't get to play in real life." (Oh, there's time, Alice.) ON TOP OF WHICH, THERE'S HER IMMINENT BIGSCREEN BREAKTHROUGH IN... Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over, another of those multi-narrative, big-cast films (Eve's co-stars include Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd, and Sean Penn) in which various characters tackle different aspects of a common subject matter—in this case, immigration. Eve, whose brothers are naturalized U.S. citizens and who herself has a green card, plays an Australian actress fighting to secure her green card, SHIA PET: "I'm into Shia LaBeouf. Oh my God, I love him! I watched Disturbia on a plane, and I went to sleep afterwards and I was dreaming of him." Your move, LaBeouf.

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