} Eve Gordon (also known as Eve Bennett-Gordon) is an American actress. Her television roles include playing

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in the

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-winning miniseries ''

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'', Congressional aide Jordan Miller in the short-lived sitcom ''

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'', the mother of the title character in the drama series '' Felicity'', and Monica Klain, the wife of Ron Klain (played by

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) in the 2008 Emmy Award-winning

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film ''

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''. She also starred in the 1997 film ''

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'', starring opposite

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Life and career

Gordon is the daughter of Mary (née McDougall), a history professor, and Richard Bennett Gordon, a lawyer. Gordon graduated from the Ellis School in Pittsburgh,

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, and

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. She started her acting career in 1982, playing Marge Tallworth in the film ''

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''. After that, she appeared in '' ER'', '' Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story'', ''

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'' and ''

'' (as Diane Szalinski, taking the role over from

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), and starred in David Chase's first original series, '' Almost Grown'', and '' The Good Life'' with

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. On the stage, she has starred on and off-Broadway, in Paris, Madrid, Chicago, Los Angeles, and many other cities, working with

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, and Daniel Sullivan in classics, musicals, and comedies. On November 14, 1987, Gordon married actor

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in Manhattan. They have two daughters.

Filmography

Podcast

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gordon, Eve 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Pittsburgh American film actresses American television actresses Brown University alumni Living people Yale School of Drama alumni Year of birth missing (living people)