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Alice Evans Profile |
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Birth Date: August 2, 1971
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Birth Place: Bristol, England, UK
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Birth Name: Alice Jane Evans
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Alice Evans is an English
actress. She is most widely recognised as the wife of Welsh
actor Ioan Gruffudd but also attracts media commentary for
her unusual fashion choices and passing resemblance to
Alexis Arquette, and according to some, to David Hasselhoff,
in the late stages of his career.
Evans, the daughter of educators, was born in Summit, New
Jersey, USA but grew up in Bristol, England. She graduated
from University College London after receiving a 2:1 in
French and Italian.
Evans had an eight-year relationship with Olivier Picasso,
the grandson of painter Pablo Picasso. She briefly enjoyed
'It-Girl' status whilst living with Picasso in Paris and
they became engaged. Ioan Gruffudd stated on the Late Late
Show with Craig Ferguson that he became engaged to Evans in
the early hours of New Year's Day 2006 after Evans gave him
an ultimatum. They met during the production of 102
Dalmatians and were dating unofficially until Evans gave an
interview revealing their relationship shortly before the
premiere of Black Hawk Down to the Daily Express. They
married on September 14, 2007 in Mexico.
Gruffudd removed his funding and support of his largest
fan-site, Ioanonline.com as a result of comments made about
Evans on the site, and elsewhere on the Internet, which
angered her. Evans had emailed the site's owner to demand
that a moderator from the site be banned, as Evans believed
she had vandalised her Wikipedia page and had threatened her
well-being. Evans has never produced any evidence to support
these claims, but the fan-site was nonetheless closed on
April 30, 2007.
In April 2008, Gruffudd was seen sporting a black eye. At
the Welsh Baftas later that month, Gruffudd confirmed that
the injury was caused by Evans accidentally hitting him with
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Other
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Hailing from Bristol, she is the grand-daughter of a coal
miner.
Tragically her mother died of a heart attack the day before
Miss Evans had her screen test for 102 Dalmatians (2000).
Graduated from college with a degree in modern languages.
Became engaged to long-time boyfriend, actor, Ioan Gruffudd
on New Year's Eve 2005.
Writes a bi-monthly column in the UK edition of Glamour
magazine about life as a British actress in Hollywood.
Is fluent in French and Italian and has spoken both
languages during performances. |
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since June 20, 2008