Hermione Eyre
| Hermione Eyre | |
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| Occupation | Journalist, novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Hertford College, Oxford |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Notable works | Viper Wine |
| Website | |
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Hermione Eyre (born 1980) is a British journalist, novelist, and former child actor.
Early life
Hermione Eyre was born in 1980. Her parents are Reginald Eyre, a British Conservative party politician, and Anne Clements.[1][2]
Eyre studied at Rugby School, joining at the age of 13 in the first year that the school began to admit girls.[3]
Eyre read English at Hertford College, Oxford.[4][5]
After university, Eyre trained as a croupier at the Bermondsey Casino Training Centre,[6] and worked for a year at a London casino, dealing roulette and blackjack.[7]
Career
Acting
At the age of seven, Eyre acted in About Face, a sitcom with Maureen Lipman. She also acted as a young Agatha Christie in a BBC production. In 1990, Eyre obtained a role as Zinnie in the film The Children with Kim Novak and Ben Kingsley.[8]
Aged twelve, Eyre acted in her final role - as the Kid Clementina in an episode of the television series Jeeves and Wooster.[9]
Journalism
Eyre worked at The Independent as a staff writer for seven years. She was also a television critic for that newspaper.[10]
Eyre is known for her long-form interviews with celebrities, publishing her works in the London Evening Standard Magazine, where she is a contributing editor.[11] She has also written for the New Statesman,[12] and The Spectator[13]
Books
Eyre co-wrote The Dictionary of National Celebrity in 2005.[14]
In 2014, she published a work of historical fiction Viper Wine, which was nominated for the Folio Prize,[15] and short-listed for the Walter Scott Prize.[16]
Eyre cites Borges, Dorothy Parker and Charles Dickens as influences.[7]
Personal life
Eyre lives in Archway, London. In 2012, she married Alex Burghart.[17] Their daughter, Sybilla, was born in 2013.[2]
References
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