Alice Evans Biography – Alice Evans Wiki
Alice Evans born Alice Jane Evans is a British-American actress. She is best known as the estranged wife of Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd. After graduation, she enrolled at the Cours Florent in Paris. She gained work in French television, with her breakthrough role as French student Susan in the popular French sitcom, Elisa Top Modele, which ran for 18 months.
After that, she went to Italy to play “Nathalie”, in the 1998 Italian miniseries Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna. Her first English-speaking role was in the Highlander episode ‘Patient Number 7’. After making her first film, Monsieur Naphtali (1999), Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch cast Evans as Macha in Une pour toutes (1999), alongside Samy Naceri and Anne Parillaud.
In 1999, Disney cast her alongside Glenn Close, Gérard Depardieu, and her future husband, Ioan Gruffudd, in 102 Dalmatians. Evans’ mother died at age 59, the day before Evans’s final screen test for the role, which introduced her to British viewers.
After being cast in Blackball, she moved to Los Angeles in 2003. She has since appeared in both television and film, such as The Mentalist, Brothers & Sisters, Lost, and Grimm. Evans also had a recurring turn as the villainous Esther on The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.
She was brought up in Bristol, and attended Henbury school, along with her two brothers, Anthony and Philip. She graduated from University College London with a 2:1 in French and Italian.
Alice Evans Age
She was born on August 2, 1971, in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Alice Evans Husband
She first met actor Ioan Gruffudd during the filming of 102 Dalmatians, while she was in a relationship with Olivier Widmaier Picasso, a grandson of painter Pablo Picasso. In 2001, she was described as residing with Picasso in Paris, to whom she was engaged; they were together for eight years before she left him for Gruffudd.
In 2017, following a slew of sexual assault allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, Evans penned an essay revealing that in 2002 Weinstein made sexual advances towards her, which she declined. Weinstein then intimated that her rejection would affect not only her career, but Gruffudd’s as well.
In a 2007 interview, Gruffudd stated he and Evans became engaged on New Year’s Day 2006 after Evans gave him a marriage ultimatum. They married on September 14, 2007, in Mexico.
In January 2021, Evans announced their separation, which Gruffudd initiated. In March 2021, Gruffudd filed for divorce from Evans.
Alice Evans Children
She has two daughters, born in 2009 and 2013. Her children are Ella Betsi Janet Gruffudd, and Elsie Marigold Gruffudd.
Alice Evans Parents
She is the daughter of British educators. Her father was mathematician David Evans and Janet Evans her mother died at age 59 in 1999. She is the granddaughter of a coal miner. She was born in Summit, New Jersey along with her two brothers, Anthony and Philip.
Alice Evans Height
She stands at a listed height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.73 meters) tall.
Alice Evans Instagram
Her Instagram account is @aliceevansgruff.
