---
name: "Eve Hewson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eve-hewson"
fi1m_id: "eve-hewson"
imdb_id: "nm2016723"
tmdb_id: 933271
wikidata_id: "Q3735288"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 July 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-20T07:39:26.004618+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Eve Hewson

## Identity

Eve Hewson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eve-hewson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eve-hewson
- **IMDb ID:** nm2016723
- **TMDB ID:** 933271
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3735288
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Hewson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3735288, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2016723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/933271

Actor. Born 7 July 1991 in Dublin, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 July 1991, Dublin, Ireland
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** Memphis Eve Sunny Day Hewson, Memphis Eve Sunnyday Iris Hewson
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (2), 2020s 70 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 73 to 71 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Thriller 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $407m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Hewson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3735288, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2016723/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/933271

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Knick*](https://film.one/tv/the-knick.md) (82), [*Bad Sisters*](https://film.one/tv/bad-sisters.md) (78)
- **Netflix:** [*Jay Kelly*](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md) (64)

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## Fi1m on Eve Hewson

> Hewson is at her best as a woman in a state among people who love her and have run out of patience, and *Bad Sisters* gives her exactly that. The films, including two for Spielberg, keep casting her and then keeping her at the edges.

Put Eve Hewson in a kitchen with three other women talking over her and she looks at home. In *Bad Sisters* (2022) her Becka Garvey is a mess, and Sharon Horgan's scripts let the mess be charming rather than tiresome. The sisters swim off the rocks outside Dublin in the cold, argue, and want their brother-in-law dead, and Hewson's job is to be the one the others have long since stopped being surprised by. She does it without asking for sympathy, which is why she gets it.

The road there was long and mostly spent in other people's films. Small parts and shorts from 2008; a first proper role as Mary opposite Sean Penn in Paolo Sorrentino's *This Must Be the Place* (2011); then the nurse Lucy Elkins in Steven Soderbergh's *The Knick* (2014–2015), which is where people began to notice. After that came supporting parts in Spielberg's *Bridge of Spies* (2015), *Papillon* (2017) and *Robin Hood* (2018), reliable and not much remarked on. The leads arrived later, and on television: *Behind Her Eyes* (2021), *Bad Sisters*, *The Perfect Couple* (2024), with the title role in John Carney's *Flora and Son* (2023) in between. The nearest thing to a criticism anyone has made of her is that the good parts took a long time to come.

It is a pattern we have watched continue. In Noah Baumbach's *Jay Kelly* (2025) she is Daphne, part of a side plot on a long train journey that comes and goes without leaving much behind; by the second stop we were looking at the scenery, and that was not her doing. In *Disclosure Day* (2026), her second film for Spielberg, she and Wyatt Russell work around the edges of a hunt that belongs to Emily Blunt. Neither is a failure of hers. Both are films that hired her and found little for her to do. Directors of real standing keep casting Hewson, and they keep placing her at the edge of the frame.

So go back to the sisters to see what she does with room. We laughed more at the Garveys in a kitchen than at most comedies that were only trying to be comedies, and a fair share of that is Hewson, who plays Becka's disasters from the inside, at full speed, and never winks at us over the character's head. She has said Becka "is so close to my heart. I was a girl like her," and it shows; there is no distance between the actor and the trouble. It is the one performance of hers we have reviewed that we could describe to a friend in a sentence, and that is the test.

Start with *Bad Sisters*, where she has company and time. Then hope somebody gives her a film with a kitchen in it.

## Biography

Eve Hewson is an Irish actress. Born Memphis Eve Sunnyday Iris Hewson on 7 July 1991 in Dublin, she is the daughter of activist Ali Hewson and U2 singer Bono. She studied drama at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Hewson’s screen debut came in the 2011 film *This Must Be the Place*. Subsequent film roles include *Blood Ties* (2013), *Enough Said* (2013), *Bridge of Spies* (2015), *Papillon* (2017), *Robin Hood* (2018) and *Flora and Son* (2023). On television she has appeared in *The Knick* (2014), *The Luminaries* (2020), *Behind Her Eyes* (2021), *Bad Sisters* (2022) and *The Perfect Couple* (2024).

Recent credits include the role of Daphne in the 2025 film *Jay Kelly* and Jane Blakenship in Steven Spielberg’s *Disclosure Day* (2026).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hollywoodreporter.com, apnews.com, biography.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Disclosure Day* (2026), Fi1m 68, as Jane Blakenship — [page](https://film.one/film/disclosure-day.md)
- *Jay Kelly* (2025), Fi1m 64, as Daphne — [page](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md)
- *Bad Sisters* (2022), Fi1m 78, as Becka Garvey — [page](https://film.one/tv/bad-sisters.md)
- *Bridge of Spies* (2015), Fi1m 75, as Carol Donovan — [page](https://film.one/film/bridge-of-spies.md)
- *The Knick* (2014), Fi1m 82, as Lucy Elkins — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-knick.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Disclosure Day* (2026), as Jane Blakenship — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/disclosure-day.md)
- *Jay Kelly* (2025), as Daphne — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md)
- *The Perfect Couple* (2024), series, as Amelia Sacks
- *Flora and Son* (2023), as Flora
- *Bad Sisters* (2022), series, as Becka Garvey — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/bad-sisters.md)
- *Behind Her Eyes* (2021), series, as Adele
- *Tesla* (2020), as Anne Morgan
- *The Luminaries* (2020), series, as Anna Wetherell
- *The True Adventures of Wolfboy* (2019), as Rose
- *Robin Hood* (2018), as Marian
- *Paper Year* (2018), as Franny Winters
- *Hello Apartment* (2018), as Ava
- *Papillon* (2017), as Nennete
- *Bridge of Spies* (2015), as Carol Donovan — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/bridge-of-spies.md)
- *The Knick* (2014), series, as Lucy Elkins — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-knick.md)
- *Enough Said* (2013), as Tess
- *Blood Ties* (2013), as Yvonne
- *This Must Be the Place* (2011), as Mary
- *The 27 Club* (2008), as Stella
- *Hillside Drive*, Actor
- *Isle of Man*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Eve Hewson](https://film.one/media/person/6628/gallery-da0a9cd59976.png) Eve Hewson — The Paparazzi Gamer (TPG), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Eve_Hewson_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Eve Hewson](https://film.one/media/person/6628/gallery-e70df4cf2188.jpg) Eve Hewson — Image via TMDB
- ![Eve Hewson](https://film.one/media/person/6628/gallery-85f64f62eae4.jpg) Eve Hewson — Image via TMDB
- ![Eve Hewson](https://film.one/media/person/6628/gallery-2008e62bf95e.jpg) Eve Hewson — Image via TMDB
- ![Eve Hewson](https://film.one/media/person/6628/gallery-68c03f3661f3.jpg) Eve Hewson — Image via TMDB
- ![Eve Hewson](https://film.one/media/person/6628/gallery-030d4fe8b6e0.jpg) Eve Hewson — Image via TMDB
- ![Eve Hewson](https://film.one/media/person/6628/gallery-3283a66fb7a0.jpg) Eve Hewson — Image via TMDB

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