In 2002, Eva graduated at the prestigious Toneelacademie Maastricht, institute of performative arts with a full-time Bachelor in Acting.

After graduation, she was asked to perform at several prominent Dutch theatre companies such as: The National Theatre (Het Nationale Theater Den Haag), NNT Groningen, Tg. Oostpool, ANNE directed by Theu Boermans and international collaborations with Hebbel am Ufer Berlin and Calgary’s One Yellow Rabbit Company.

In addition to acting on stage, Eva is an award-winning film actress with numerous acting credits to her name. For the short film Second Date (2016) Eva won Best Actress Award  at the 48hr Film Fest Eindhoven. The short film The 54 won Best Int. Short Film Award Cleveland Film Fest 2012.

Eva attended the successful premiere of the film Het Boek van Alle Dingen at the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) last september.  In The Book of Everything (Het Boek van Alle Dingen) she stars as Tante Pie, the film is directed by Ineke Houtman and will premiere this fall (10th Oct) at cinemas across the Netherlands.

Eva has further worked with acclaimed directors, such as Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke (Castle Amerongen),  director-duo Steffen Haars & Flip van der Kuil, Nanouk Leopold (Guernsey and Wolfsbergen) and Marc Willard (Netflix-comedy Zwaar Verliefd 2).

Eva is known for her performance as the troubled Aaltje in multiple seasons of the popular tv-series De Co-assistent (The Intern) alongside Michiel Huisman, Thom Hoffman and Hanna Verboom and for her performance as Nora Kleverlaan in  the CineKid nominated series AAP by AVRO/TROS/Fiction Valley. In 2024/2025  Eva can be seen in Flikken Maastricht, De Toeslagenaffaire and Het Boek van Alle Dingen.

As a voice actress, Eva can be heard on a daily basis on radio and tv and she lends her voice to many audiobooks on Storytel and Kobo. Eva was nominated as Best Narrator 2022 by Storytel Awards Holland.

Her most well-known audiobook narrations are of the widely beloved Bridgerton book-series by Julia Quinn and the Sophia-series by author Corina Bomann, as well as the Fourth Wing series by Rebecca Yarros. Upcoming audiobooks include books written by best-selling authors such as: Santa Montefiore, Karen Swan, Ruth Ware and many more.

Fun facts

  • Lefthanded
  • Can swing a sword
  • Occasional knitter
  • Took tango-lessons for the Tangoman