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Eva Griffith (born 1963), also credited as Eva Griffiths, is a British actress and a historian of the English Renaissance theatre. She began her career as Child actor.
She was educated at More House, a private Catholic Church school for girls in London, paying her fees with her own earnings as an actress.
She later acted in stage roles, including parts in Scraps (a musical version of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl") at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond; Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and later at the National Theatre, London; and Edward Bond's Restoration at the Royal Court Theatre (1981).
Television work included Coming Home (1981), a BBC situation comedy; a production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, also for the BBC; Nanny (1981–2), a BBC historical drama; (1982); Shall I Be Mother? (1983), a BBC Play for Today; and The Diary of Anne Frank (1987).
In 2013, she published A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen’s Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (c. 1605–1619), a monograph study of the Red Bull Theatre, London, based on her doctoral thesis. She has also published a number of articles and chapters in books.
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