Eve Karpf (born 2 August 1947) is a British actress. Among her roles she was the voice of Weed for the 2001 Bill and Ben reboot.

Early life

She was born in 1947 in London, England, United Kingdom. Her mother is the Polish concert pianist Natalia Karp née Weissman (1911-2007), a Jewish refugee from the Nazis and Holocaust survivor. She was trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She then attended University of Bristol to study drama and theatre, graduating with a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies.

Career

She was also the voice of Dennis's Mum and Matilda in the 1996 Dennis and Gnasher television series, Mrs. Bird in The Adventures of Paddington Bear, The Voice in the first series of Trapped! and Grandma in The Large Family. Karpf also featured in several audiobooks, among them A Creepy Company who was praised as being "a marvelous performer whose storytelling talents keep the listener spellbound". She is known for being the voice of the Ferrero Rocher commercial line, "Monsieur, with these Rocher, you're really spoiling us." She has voiced numerous roles in video games from various franchises based on other media, including James Bond and Star Wars. Her credits include Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter video games, including Philosopher's Stone (released in the US as Sorcerer's Stone), Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows – Part 2. She also did the voice over for the role of Monica, the mother of St. Augustine in the movie Restless Heart (Ignatius Press), Kristina Boaz in the 2003 video game Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, the cat Alvina in 2011 video game Dark Souls and the elf Fiona and Divine Justinia V in the 2014 video game Dragon Age: Inquisition. She is also represented by Hobson's International until 2009. Karpf also did the additional voices in the 2015 film Minions.

Personal life

Eve's son Mark Lowen is the BBC News Southern Europe correspondent and her sister Anne Karpf is a journalist.

Filmography

Television series

Anime series

Animation

Film

Podcast series

Video games