Emily Best (born 31 July 1971 in Ladbroke Grove, London), known as Eve Best, is an English stage and screen actress and director.
She is best known for her television roles as Dr. Eleanor O'Hara in Nurse Jackie, First Lady Dolley Madison in The American Experience, Monica Chatwin in The Honourable Woman and Rhaenys Targaryen in House of the Dragon. Film-wise, her best known role is perhaps Wallis Simpson in The King's Speech.
Selected Filmography:
Film:
- Shackleton (2002) as Eleanor Shackleton
- The King's Speech (2010) as Wallis Simpson
Television:
- CASUAL+Y (2000) as Amber Hope
- Waking the Dead (2004) as Natasha Bloom
- Inspector Lynley (2005) as Amanda Gibson
- Nurse Jackie (2009-2015) as Dr. Eleanor O'Hara
- The American Experience (2010) as Dolley Madison
- The Shadow Line (2010) as Petra Mayler
- Up All Night (2012) as Yvonne Encanto
- The Challenger Disaster (2013) as Sally Ride
- The Honourable Woman (2014) as Monica Chatwin
- Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016-2017) as Anna Clayton
- Fate: The Winx Saga (2021-2022) as Farah Dowling
- House of the Dragon (2022/2024) as Princess Rhaenys Targaryen
- The Crown (2023) as Carole Middleton