Alice Evans

Alice Evans plays the role of Esther on The Vampire Diaries & The Originals.
==Acting career==
After graduation, she moved to Paris to study acting at the Cours Florent. She gained work in French television, with her break through role as French student Nathalie, in the successful 1998 Italian mini-series Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna. After acting in her first film, 1999's Monsieur Naphtali, Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch cast her as Macha in 1999's Une pour toutes.
Her first English language role was in 1999, when Disney cast her alongside Glenn Close, Gérard Depardieu and Ioan Gruffudd in 102 Dalmatians. Her mother died at the age of 59 the day before Evans' final screen test for the role. The role introduced to her native British audience, and Blackball alongside James Cromwell and Vince Vaughn.
After that film's critical success but commercial failure, she moved to Los Angeles in 2003, and has since appeared in both television and film.
==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, the grandson of painter Pablo Picasso. She briefly enjoyed It-Girl status while living with Picasso in Paris and they became engaged.
After Evans broke up with Picasso, Gruffudd went to see his friend Matthew Rhys who was playing alongside Evans in The Abduction Club. Evans gave an interview revealing their relationship shortly before the premiere of Black Hawk Down. Gruffudd stated on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson that he became engaged to Evans in the early hours of New Year's Day 2006 after Evans gave him an ultimatum. They married on 14 September 2007 in Mexico.
Gruffudd removed his funding and support of his largest fansite, IoanOnline.com as a result of comments made about Evans on the site which angered her, which resulted in the website being closed by its owner because nobody else was prepared to pay for the site. Estimates say the web host was paid more as much as $2,000 a month by the couple, substantially more than other fansites currently and since.
The couple reside in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. On 6 September 2009, Evans and Gruffudd had their first child, daughter Ella Betsi Janet Gruffudd. She gave birth to another daughter on October 1, 2013.http://www.eonline.com/news/465431/ioan-gruffudd-welcomes-baby-girl-you-ll-never-guess-her-name
==Filmography==
===Films===
Year	Movie 	Role
1998	Rewind 	Helge
1999	Monsieur Naphtali 	Caroline
 	Mauvaise passe 	Sue
 	Une pour toutes (
One 4 All) 	 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
2005	Four Corners of Suburbia 	Susan Harris
2006	Hollywood Dreams
  	Vida
2007	Save Angel Hope 	Sonia Zeller
 	Dangerous Parking 	Etta
2012	Liars All
  	Sandra
===Television===
Year 	TV Show 	Role
1996 	Strangers
- Crash  	Charlotte
 	Elisa top modèle
  	 Elisa
1997 	Highlander: The Series 	Patient Number 7 Kyra
1998 	Ragazze di Piazza di Spagna, Le	Nathalie
 	H"
 - Une belle maman  	Ramzi's Girlfriend
 	Au coeur de la loi
 - En vert et contre tous	Muriel Highsmith
2001 	Best of Both Worlds 	 Diane Sullivan
2006 	The Christmas Card 	Faith Spelman
2009 	Lost
  	Younger Eloise Hawking
2011 	Brothers & Sisters 	Doctor Felicity Milton
2011-2012	The Vampire Diaries 	Esther Mikaelson
2014-2015	The Originals 	Esther Mikaelson
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==Trivia==
* In LOST Eloise (a character she played) accidentally killed her son. In The Vampire Diaries she tried to kill all of her children.
*In her early 20s, Alice moved to Paris where she acted in many French TV shows and movies.
*Out of Klamille, Klayley and Klaroline, Alice prefers Klaroline.https://twitter.com/aliceevansgruff/status/680844546373107712
==External links==
* Source
*Wikipedia
* IMDB
==References==
fr:Alice Evans
Category:The Vampire Diaries Cast
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Three Cast
Category:The Originals Cast
Category:The Originals Season Two Cast