Alice Evans

Alice Jane Evans is a British actress.[2]
== Early life ==
Evans, the daughter of educators and the granddaughter of a coal miner, was born in Bristol England to English parents, mathematician David Evans[3] and Janet Evans. She was raised in Bristol, England, along with her two British-born brothers, Anthony and Philip.[4] She graduated from University College London with a 2:1 in French and Italian.[4]
== Career ==
After graduation, she moved to Paris' Cours Florent. She gained work in French television, with her breakthrough role as French student Susan in the popular French sitcom, Elisa Top Modele, which ran for 18 months. Next, she went to Italy to play "Nathalie", in the 1998 Italian miniseries Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna. Her first English-speaking role was in the Highlander episode 'Patient Number 7'. After making her first film, Monsieur Naphtali (1999), Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch cast Evans as Macha in Une pour toutes (1999), alongside Sami Naceri and Anne Parillaud.
In 1999, Disney cast Evans alongside Glenn Close, Gérard Depardieu and her future husband, Ioan Gruffudd, in 102 Dalmatians.[5][6] Evans' mother died at age 59, the day before Evans's final screen test for the role, which introduced her to British viewers.[7]
After appearing in Blackball, she moved to Los Angeles in 2003. She has since appeared in both television and film, such as The Mentalist, Brothers & Sisters, Lost, and Grimm. Evans also had a recurring turn as the villainous Esther on The Vampire Diaries[8] and The Originals.
== Personal life ==
Evans first met actor Ioan Gruffudd during the filming of 102 Dalmatians, while she was in her eight-year relationship with Olivier Widmaier Picasso, a grandson of painter Pablo Picasso. She lived with Picasso in Paris, and they became engaged but later broke up.[9]
Gruffudd stated on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson that he and Evans became engaged on New Year's Day 2006 after Evans gave him an ultimatum, declaring that after 7 years together she wasn't going to hang around any longer unless she was his wife.[10] They married on 14 September 2007 in Mexico.[11] The couple resides in Los Angeles, California, and has two daughters, Ella Betsi Janet (born 6 September 2009) and Elsie Marigold (born 13 September 2013). [12]
== Select filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1999	Une pour toutes 	Macha Desachy 	
2000	102 Dalmatians 	Chloe Simon 	
2001	Ma femme s'appelle Maurice	Emmanuelle 	
2002	The Abduction Club 	Catherine Kennedy	
2003	Blackball 	Kerry Speight 	
2004	Fascination 	Kelly Vance 	
2006	Hollywood Dreams 	Vida 	
2007	Dangerous Parking 	Etta 	
2013	Liars All 	Sandra 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1996-99	Elisa Top Modèle 	Clara 	22 episode; aka Elisa
1996 	Strangers 	Charlotte 	Episode: "Crash"
1997 	Highlander: The Series 	Kyra 	Episode: "Patient Number 7"
1998 	Au cœur de la loi 	Muriel Highsmith 	Episode: "En vert et contre tous"
1998 	H 	Sabri's Girlfriend 	Episode: "Une belle maman"
1998 	Le Ragazze di Piazza di Spagna	Nathalie 	[unknown episodes]
2001 	Best of Both Worlds 	Diane Sullivan 	[unknown episodes]
2003 	CSI: Miami 	Leslie Warner 	Episode: "Bait"
2006 	The Christmas Card 	Faith Spelman 	Television film
2009 	Lost 	Younger Eloise Hawking	3 episodes
2011–12	The Vampire Diaries 	Esther 	6 episodes
2012 	Grimm 	Mia Gaudot 	Episode: "Over My Dead Body"
2014–15	The Originals 	Esther 	3 episodes
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