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Eve Pearce (born 17 April 1929) 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 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 won an LCC Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) 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 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 is a member of The Company of Elders and dances at Sadlers Wells. Wikipedia
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