Alice Evans

Alice Evans is a British-American actress who started out in French television. Born in New Jersey and raised in Bristol, England, she studied French and Italian at University College London before training at the Cours Florent in Paris. Her breakthrough came as the student Susan in the sitcom Elisa Top Model, and she played Nathalie in Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna, an Italian miniseries from 1998. Her first English-language part came in an episode of Highlander, and after the film Monsieur Naphtali (1999) Claude Lelouch cast her as Macha in Une pour toutes. Disney then put her in 102 Dalmatians (2000) as Chloe Simon. She moved to Los Angeles after Blackball (2003) and has since worked in series such as The Mentalist, Brothers & Sisters, Lost and Grimm, with a recurring turn as the villainous Esther in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.