- Born
- Birth nameEva Griffiths
- 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. She made her acting debut as the daughter of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Divorce His - Divorce Hers (1973), which was filmed in 1971. By age eleven, Eva's film career had taken her around the world; she filmed Divorce His - Divorce Hers in Rome, Italy, and Munich, Germany, and she filmed Ride a Wild Pony (1975) in Sydney, Australia. As she grew older, Eva began working less in film and more on television and theater. During the early 1980s, she performed in several productions in the London West End. In 1988, over a decade after Divorce His - Divorce Hers, Eva appeared in her last film to date, co-starring again with Elizabeth Taylor in Young Toscanini (1988). As of this writing (2008), Eva is a member of The Lions Part, a London-based theater company, and is working towards the publication of her Ph.D. thesis.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Snow4849
- SpousePaul Klein(? - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenJohn O'Riordan
- Parents
- RelativesDavid Griffith(Half Sibling)Polly Griffith(Half Sibling)Huw Griffith(Half Sibling)Jonathan Griffith(Half Sibling)
- 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.
- 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.
- Attended the 2006 Cardiff Film Festival in Cardiff, Wales, which included a film tribute to her late father Kenneth Griffith.
- She organized and hosted her own academic conference, "Beyond Shakespeare's Globe," at the London Metropolitan Archives.
- Working as a research associate with the Department of English Studies at Durham University.
- 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."
- 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."
- On working with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor: "I think Mrs. Burton did not like acting with a child."
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