Eve Karpf (born 2 August 1947) is a British actress. Among her roles she was the voice of Weed for the 2001 ''Bill and Ben'' reboot.

Early life

Karpf was born on 2 August 1947 in

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. Her mother is the Polish concert pianist Natalia Karp née Weissman (1911-2007), a Jewish refugee from the Nazis and

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survivor. She was trained at

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. She then attended

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to study drama and theatre, graduating with a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies.

Career

She was also the voice of Dennis's Mum and Matilda in the 1996 '' Dennis and Gnasher'' television series, Mrs. Bird in ''

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,'' The Voice in the first series of ''

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'' and Grandma in '' The Large Family''. Karpf also featured in several

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s, among them ''A Creepy Company'' who was praised as being "a marvelous performer whose storytelling talents keep the listener spellbound". She is known for being the voice of the

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commercial line, "Monsieur, with these Rocher, you're really spoiling us." She has voiced numerous roles in video games from various franchises based on other media, including ''

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'' and ''

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''. Her credits include

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in the ''

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'' video games, including ''

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'' (released in the US as ''Sorcerer's Stone''), '' Chamber of Secrets'', '' Prisoner of Azkaban'', '' Order of the Phoenix'', ''

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'' and '' Deathly Hallows – Part 2''. She also did the voice over for the role of Monica, the mother of

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in the movie ''

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'' (

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), Kristina Boaz in the 2003 video game '' Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness'', the cat Alvina in 2011 video game ''

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'' and the elf Fiona and Divine Justinia V in the 2014 video game '' Dragon Age: Inquisition''. She is also represented by Hobson's International until 2009. Karpf also did the additional voices in the 2015 film '' Minions''.

Personal life

Eve's son Mark Lowen is the BBC News Southern Europe correspondent and her sister Anne Karpf is a journalist.

Filmography

Television series

Anime series

Animation

Film

Podcast series

Video games

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karpf, Eve 1947 births Living people 20th-century British actresses 21st-century British actresses Actresses from London Audiobook narrators British film actresses British television actresses British video game actresses British voice actresses Place of birth missing (living people) English people of Polish descent English people of Polish-Jewish descent British podcasters