Her mother is the Polish concert pianist Natalia Karp née Weissman (1911-2007), a Jewish refugee from the Nazis and Holocaust survivor.
[3] Karpf also featured in several audiobooks, among them A Creepy Company who was praised as being "a marvelous performer whose storytelling talents keep the listener spellbound".
"[5] She has voiced numerous roles in video games from various franchises based on other media, including James Bond and Star Wars.
Her credits include Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter video games, including Philosopher's Stone (released in the US as Sorcerer's Stone), Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
Eve's son Mark Lowen is the BBC News Southern Europe correspondent and her sister Anne Karpf is a journalist.