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.
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 spanned seven decades, including many roles with the RSC and in the West End, notably Amelia in Wild Oats and Rosamonde in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
She acted in many Royal Shakespeare Company productions including as Amelia in John O'Keeffe's play, Wild Oats[1] at the Aldwych Theatre in London with Alan Howard, Zoë Wanamaker, Lisa Harrow, Simon Jones, Norman Rodway, Jeremy Irons, Joe Melia, and Ben Cross in the cast.
She played the German Kaiserin in the mini-serie Fall of Eagles in 1974 then Madame Giselle in the 1992 TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'Death in the Clouds'.