Ioan Gruffudd

Alice Jane Evans is an American-born British actress. Evans, the daughter of educators and the granddaughter of a coal miner, was born to British parents resident in New Jersey but raised in Bristol, England. She graduated from University College London with a 2:1 in French and Italian. After... graduation, she moved to Paris to study acting at the Cours Florent. She gained work in French television, with her break through role as French student Nathalie, in the successful 1998 Italian mini-series Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna. Her very first role was in the 1996 video game MegaRace 2, where she was cast as an unnamed bimbo assistant to the game presenter. After making her first film Monsieur Naphtali , Oscar-winning director Claude Lelouch cast Evans as Macha in Une pour toutes . In 1999, Disney cast her alongside Glenn Close, Gérard Depardieu and Ioan Gruffudd in 102 Dalmatians. Evans' mother died at age 59 the day before Evans's final screen test for the role. The role introduced to her native British audience, and Blackball alongside James Cromwell and Vince Vaughn.
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