Eve Myles | Biography

Despite having no initial plans of entering the entertainment industry, Welsh born Eve Myles has established her name  as one of the sought after actresses. Began with a role in the Welsh language drama sitcom ‘Belonging’, she continued with the varieties of British TV shows like ‘Colditz’ and ‘Tales from Pleasure Beach’. She has managed to appear in both the small and big screens as well as theatres. She is recognized for playing lead in drama spin-off sitcoms like ‘Torchwood’.

Eve Myles began her life journey on the date of 26th July, 1978 in Ystradgynlais, Wales of Unites Kingdom. She studied at the Ysgol Maes Y Dderwen, where fellow actor named Richard Corgan was her classmate and Steve Meo was a year senior to her. While growing up, she had strong interest in boxing. Unfortunately, she had to give up her childhood dream of becoming a boxer after she broke her knuckle by hitting on the wet sand bag. Thereafter, deciding to be an actress, she graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree with major acting from Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2000.

Following the college graduation, Myles headed to London being optimistic to find the acting jobs over there. Luckily to her hope, she subsequently obtained a role of Ceri Owen in the BBC sitcom ‘Belonging’ which helped her in launching her professional career. Her longest role ever, she played for the character Ceri from sitcom’s 1st episode to the show’s final season till 2008. In 2001, she had appeared in TV movie ‘Score’ and also in TV mini-series entitled ‘Tales from Pleasure Beach’. She was applauded for playing a role in Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of play ‘Titus Andronicus’ in 2004. Then, she continued her theatre appearances playing in plays like ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ and ‘Henry IV’ (1st and 2nd part). In 2005, she had played in ITV drama film ‘Colditz’. Afterwards, she took a supporting role in an episode ‘The Unique Dead’ of sitcom ‘Doctor Who’ playing as servant girl, Gwyneth. The role led grabbed the attention of Russell T Davies, a writer, who offered her a role in his show ‘Torchwood’. Being fascinated by her role, he created a role of Gwen Cooper for her.

In 2008, she portrayed Maggy Plornish in big-screen adaptation of ‘Little Dorrit’, which later went to score 7 Emmys. Early that year, she had hosted a radio show centered on Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer. She then starred in award-winning Welsh independent movie ‘A Bit of Tom Jones’ and then in BBC’s drama series ‘Framed’. She lent her voice to video game, ‘Dragon Age 2’. In 2011July, to coincide with 4th season of ‘Torchwood’, she presented a BBC Wales documentary titled ‘Wales and Hollywood’. In 2012, making her comeback to the stage, she played in the play ‘All New People’. The play ran for 10 consecutive weeks at Duke of York’s Theatre in West End, ran for several days in Manchester Opera House and King’s Theatre in Glasgow. In 2013, she had played a title role in BBC1 drama series ‘Frankie’, which chronicled the life of district nurse who gives more care to her patients disregarding herself. Alongside numbers of awards and nominations, she has earned much more honor from other Medias including magazines. She was named as ‘Bachelorette of the Year’ by Wales on Sunday in 2006. She scores always high rank in Western Mail’s annual list of ’50 Sexiest Women of Wales’. Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama honored her with a fellowship in 2010. There’s no approved information yet but some of the Medias have reported the amount of her net worth to be $2 million.

Going through the private life of Eve Myles, she has been a better-half of Bradley Freegard since 1994. The couple first met at National Youth Theatre and began a romantic affair. The love birds shared their wedding vows after 9 years of romantic journey together on 18th May, 2013 in Italy. The couple is blessed with two adorable children including 2009 born Matilda Myles Freegard and 2014 born Siena Myles Freegard.

Eve Myles seems successful in both the private and professional life. Now, giving up her interest in boxing has been proved positive to her. She has accumulated much more in the entertainment industry. Her detailed biography is available in wiki. She is active in social networks like Facebook and twitter. She posts plenty of steamy and hot pictures in Instagram.

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