Trevor Eve

Trevor Eve is an English actor, born in Sutton Coldfield, who dropped out of an architecture course and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1973. He played Paul McCartney in the West End production of John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert in 1974, and found fame as the private investigator Eddie Shoestring in the television series Shoestring from 1979 to 1980. His first major film role came in Dracula in 1979, and he went on to play Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in Waking the Dead across nine series from 2000. He has won two Laurence Olivier Awards, for Children of a Lesser God in 1982 and for Uncle Vanya in 1997. Other credits include the dramas The Politician's Wife, David Copperfield, Troy and A Discovery of Witches, and he co-founded Projector Productions, which made television films.