Eve Gordon Movies and Career Information

Eve Gordon (also known as Eve Bennett-Gordon; born June 25, 1960) is an American actress. She may be best known for portraying Monica Klain, the wife of Ron Klain (played by Kevin Spacey) in the Emmy-winning HBO film Recount, for playing Marilyn Monroe in the Emmy-winning miniseries A Woman Named Jackie, for playing the mother of the title character in the TV series Felicity, or for her starring role as Congressional aide Jordan Miller in the short-lived sitcom The Powers That Be, produced by Norman Lear. Gordon was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Mary (née McDougall), a historian, and Richard Bennett Gordon, a history professor and lawyer. After graduating with Honors in History from Brown University, she received her MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. She started her acting career in 1982, playing Marge Tallworth in the movie The World According to Garp. After that, she appeared in ER, The Partridge Family Story, Avalon and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (as Diane Szalinski, taking the role over from Marcia Strassman), and starred in David Chase's first original series, Almost Grown, and The Good Life with Drew Carey. On the stage, she has starred on and