Eve Myles

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Eve Myles (born 26 July 1978) is a Welsh actress from Ystradgynlais.

She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2000.

She began playing Ceri Lewis in the BBC drama series Belonging, a role she would reprise later this year.

Myles' early television appearances included Tales from Pleasure Beach in 2001 and Colditz, a 2003 television drama.

She auditioned for a part of Doctor Who's revival in 2005, and she landed the role of servant girl Gwyneth in the Series 1 episode "The Unquiet Dead," alongside Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston. Her appearance in Doctor Who resulted in her landing a lead role in Torchwood's science fiction drama, in which she portrayed Gwen Cooper for four series from 2006 to 2011.

In 2007, Myles' appearance in Torchwood earned her a Bafta Cymru award for Best Actress.

In an ongoing series of Big Finish Productions stories, Myles revisited Gwen's role in the 2010 and 2011 series of Torchwood Radio Plays and then again in 2015.

Myles' subsequent television appearances include the 2008 miniseries Little Dorrit, the 2008 premiere episode of the fantasy drama Merlin, and the 2013 drama film Frankie, in which she appeared in the lead role. She appeared alongside Anthony Head in the comedy comedy You, Me & Them in 2013, a role she reprised in 2015 for the second series.

Claire Ripley was played in the second series of the crime drama series Broadchurch in 2014.

She appeared in Dragon Age II as one of the main characters.

Myles appeared in two Victorian servant dramas, this time playing Mrs. Jenkins in the ITV period drama series Victoria, a role she did not reprise for in series 2.

Both Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 at the National Theatre in 2004, and Emma in Zach Braff's debut of All New People in 2012.

Early life

Myles was born in Ystradgynlais on July 26, 1978. Her father is Scottish. She attended Ysgol Maes Y Dderwen, where she learned only basic Welsh words. She grew up with a strong interest in boxing, but she gave up the sport after breaking her knuckle by punching a wet sandbag. Myles earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in acting at Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2000. Then she migrated to London.

Personal life

In 1994, Myles met Bradley Freegard at the National Youth Theatre, and they married in Italy on May 18, 2013. Myles and Freegard have three children, born in 2009, 2014, and 2021. She now speaks Welsh with her children after learning Welsh for Keeping Faith with the support of her husband.

Myles and her family migrated with their family to Hollywood Hills, California, living "literally below the Hollywood sign." Myles has referred to California as the "land of dreams" and her time with Torchwood in Hollywood as the best year of her life, adding that she would like to spend more time there as an actress if possible.

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Career

Ceri Owen (née Lewis) played the central role in the BBC Wales drama Belonging in 2000. Myles played Ceri from the series's first episode to its final series in 2008, reprising for a one-off special in 2009. Myles appeared in the television film Score and the TV miniseries Tales from Pleasure Beach in 2001. Myles based herself in Stratford upon Avon from 2003, first appearing in Lavinia in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Titus Andronicus, for which she received the Sunday Times Ian Charleson award in 2004. She has appeared in The Taming of The Shrew and in 2005, she appeared opposite Michael Gambon in Henry IV, Part I and II at the National Theatre, and in 2005 she appeared in Bianca. In November 2004, she appeared on Gwenfar as part of Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Steve May's "Arthur" on BBC Radio Four. In 2005, Myles appeared in the ITV drama Colditz.

She appeared in the Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead" playing servant girl Gwyneth. Russell T Davies, a lead writer who went on to write and produce Torchwood, was attracted by her curiosity. Davies, considering that she is "one of Wales' best-kept secrets," wrote about Gwen Cooper in Torchwood specifically for Myles. Myles said that writing the role for her was like having her "own personal Oscar." "Can run and fight and stand in her own corner and win," Torchwood's "social worker" Gwen, a crowd survivor, is portrayed by Myles as Torchwood's "social worker." Myles made her second appearance in Doctor Who's fourth series finale, alongside Torchwood co-stars John Barrowman and Gareth David-Lloyd. In every episode of Torchwood, Myles appeared.

Myles appeared in "The Dragon's Call" on Episode 1 of Merlin, where she played Lady Helen of Mora and Mary Collins, a witch who impersonated her. Anthony Head, who said that she did it dead straight and very frighteningly, praised her performance in this role.' In one moment, she was giving a speech to me in complete prosthetic make-up... The French background artists didn't speak English, but at the end, they burst into applause because of the emotion of it.'

In Andrew Davies' 2008 version of Little Dorrit, she portrayed Maggy Plornish, which went on to win seven Emmy awards. On BBC Radio Wales, the actress hosted a radio show centred around Welsh boxer Joe Calzaghe and narrate a short story, Sorry for the Loss by Bridget Keehan.

A Bit of Tom Jones, the award-winning independent Welsh film A Bit of Tom Jones, as well as the one-off drama Framed for BBC Wales, was performed by Emma Coburn in 2009. Myles revealed in July 2010 that she would be included in an original BBC Cymru Wales TV series called Baker Boys, co-written by Helen Raynor and Gary Owen and airing in early 2011. Myles appeared as the Dalish elf Merrill in the Bioware video game Dragon Age II, which was also released in 2011. Myles, the actor who appeared on Torchwood's fourth series, appeared on BBC Wales Documentary entitled Wales and Hollywood, which featured the Welsh talent discovered there.

Following performances at the Manchester Opera House (8–11 February 2012) and the King's Theatre in Glasgow, Myles returned to the stage in Zach Braff's play All New People, which ran for ten weeks in a row. She starred in the BBC1 drama Frankie, which was shot in Bristol, and she cares more about her patients than her own life.

Myles appeared in Victoria, alongside Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes, and Rufus Sewell, which follows Queen Victoria's early life, from her ascension to the throne in August, to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert. Mrs Jenkins, the Queen's personal dresser, was portrayed by she.

Myles appeared alongside her real life partner Bradley Freegard in the Welsh drama Un Bore Mercher for S4C in 2017. She learned to speak Welsh for the role. Un Bore Mercher was also shot in English and aired on BBC One as Keeping Faith the following year. Following the birth of their third child, Myles played Faith Howells, a solicitor whose husband Evan, with whom she works at their family-run law firm, who vanishes when she is on maternity leave. The show was a huge success for the BBC, and in April–August, it was broadcast live on S4C and BBC One.

In the BBC drama In 2018, Myles played Gwen Parry-Jones, Norman Scott's lover. The drama focuses on the real life story of politician Jeremy Thorpe's affair with Scott and the subsequent trial for attempted murder based on John Preston's novel of the same name.

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