Eve Polastri
Eve is half British but was born in Connecticut. She was fiercely ambitious growing up, but mainly to impress her father, who she adored.
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Sandra Oh
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Always fascinated by women in crime, she excelled in a degree in criminal psychology. When her father died her momentum slowed; she wasn't sure who she was trying to impress anymore. Her father’s memorial brought her back to the UK and she met Niko and never really left. Eve started working at MI5 assessing risk, yet never living it. She’d always dreamed of working as a spy but instead, she was desk-bound, assigning protection to foreign people of interest during their trips to London. Struggling to find meaning in her work, her ennui began to get the better of Eve. She didn’t have a drug dependence problem or an unhappy domestic situation – Niko was the perfect husband. So why couldn’t she shake a creeping sense of dissatisfaction?
Then Eve’s fantasy crossed her path: Villanelle. Here was an assassin with flare, charisma and danger. Appointed head of a secret MI6 unit by Carolyn Martins, Eve could now exercise not only her gifts, but also her obsessions. As Eve investigated the string of assassinations across Europe, her fascination with Villanelle grew. Soon it was no longer just a job. It was personal. So personal she gets blood on her hands: she stabs Villanelle. Eve is far from the desk job now, but what has she sacrificed? And how does her ego react to being caught in the seemingly irresistible gaze of Villanelle.
