Born Into Fame, This Actress Could Soon Have More of Her Own
The New York Times
The daughter of a rock star, Eve Hewson is not yet a household name herself, but that could change in the coming months.
Eve Hewson keeps getting discovered.
The Irish actress, whose credits date back to 2008, started generating heat in 2014 for her performance as a reserved young nurse in Steven Soderbergh’s period drama “The Knick.” Her turn as the eerie, emotionally unstable wife in the Netflix mini-series “Behind Her Eyes,” in 2021, had fans stopping her on the street.
It happened again with “Bad Sisters,” the darkly comic Irish drama. Released in 2022 on Apple TV+, the show became a phenomenon in Dublin, Hewson’s hometown, where weekly watch parties in pubs turned her into a local sensation. And in 2023, she was the talk of Sundance, when the film “Flora and Son,” where she plays the titular role, sold for a record-breaking $20 million to Apple TV.
Yet, partly because streaming services have dramatically increased the volume of television while atomizing viewing habits, Hewson, 33, is not quite a household name.
That may change in the coming months. The actress is starring opposite Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber in the buzzy Netflix adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s “The Perfect Couple,” premiering Sept. 5, and she will be back for the second season of “Bad Sisters” on Nov. 13, reprising her role as the youngest and wildest sister, Becka Garvey. She just finished filming a part in Noah Baumbach’s new movie, which stars George Clooney and Adam Sandler, and is about to start a television pilot from Alec Berg (“Barry”) set in the world of Formula 1 racing.
Hewson has long had a complicated relationship with fame — understandable given that her father is Bono, the U2 frontman and global activist. It’s easy to feel invisible when your dad is gobbling up all the attention.
