Eva Griffith's parents met on the set of Tyrone Guthrie's production of the William Shakespeare play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Her father, Kenneth Griffith, was playing Oberon, and her mother, Doria Noar, was playing Mustard Seed. Eva was born in 1962 in London. At age seven, she made her acting debut as the daughter of Richard Burton and ...
On working with a horse in Ride a Wild Pony (1975): "The pony's real name was Frank, but in the picture, I call him Bo and Robert calls him Taff. That was a pretty confused horse by the time we finished."
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On filming in Australia: "There is something funny about Sydney. There are no really old buildings, and there are no really old slums, which I found interesting because there are so many in London."
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Mother of John O'Riordan.
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Her book, "A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse," is near completion and under consideration with Cambridge University Press. [2010]
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Working as a research associate with the Department of English Studies at Durham University. [2012]
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She organized and hosted her own academic conference, "Beyond Shakespeare's Globe," at the London Metropolitan Archives. [October 2005]
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Attended the 2006 Cardiff Film Festival in Cardiff, Wales, which included a film tribute to her late father Kenneth Griffith. [November 2006]
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Made a three-month research trip to the United States, visiting the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. [2011]
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For her publication "The Complete Works of James Shirley," she traveled extensively throughout the British Isles, visiting theater archives in London, Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Has four half-siblings on her father's side: David, Polly, Huw, and Jonathan Griffith.
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