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Jul 12, 2020 · Jul 12, 2020, 5:30 AM PDT. Eve Lindley plays Simone in Dispatches from Elsewhere. She is one of the few trans actors to ever play a lead role in a TV series and one of the few to have a romance ...
- Eve Lindley Transitioned from Male to Female
- Lindley Had Trouble Finding Female Roles
- Lindley Made Her Debut in Katie Holmes’ All We Had
- Dispatches from Elsewhere Marks Lindley’s Breakout Role
Eve Lindley was born on January 12, 1993 to Brad Lindley, a New York-based pilot, and his then-wife. The family had daughters before Eve, who was born a male. Eve has two sisters, Lucia Curley and Darah Lindley. Lucia is currently married to one John Curley and based in New York. Brad and Eve had an interviewtogether where they revealed details abo...
Eve’s biological mother eventually came around. But while her family had been supportive of her transition to a woman, the school’s theater community Eve was part of was less so. She aimed for female roles in school productions but was never considered for leading parts. One such incident was when she tried for Mama Morton’s part in a production of...
Lindley was close to giving up on her dreams of ever becoming a leading lady. The New York resident had been sleeping on friends’ couches, working in costume and set productions on Broadway, and hoping for an acting break. When Laverne Cox became the first openly transgender person to earn an Emmy nomination for Orange Is the New Blackand transgend...
While she was getting more jobs, most of Lindley’s roles were limited to trans or queer characters subjected to lot of hardships. The typecasting was beginning to make her disillusioned with the belief that she could never be more than a “weird, funny-looking girl who shows up and says some funny stuff and leaves.” It was then that she came across ...
- Female
- Actress
- American
- January 12, 1993
Mar 2, 2020 · Part of the reason Simone feels that way is because, as Episode 2 confirms, she is a transgender woman. The 27-year-old Lindley is also transgender, and told journalists during the show’s...
- Meghan O'keefe
Feb 29, 2020 · Eve Lindley is Simone, a museum docent, and the transgender star critics are praising. She’s also a “romantic lead,” per AMC. Yes! A romantic lead played by a trans woman on cable TV where the...
Mar 2, 2020 · One of the standout performances in Dispatches from Elsewhere comes from Eve Lindley, a Brooklyn-based actress, who is trans. Lindley, 27, plays the love interest of Jason Segel’s character,...
- Victor Fiorillo
Jun 10, 2020 · Lindley’s character Simone, described as a trans woman seeking an escape from her feelings of isolation, is a standout not only for her endearingly honest portrayal, but also because it is...
Feb 28, 2020 · When she fought for the role of Matron “Mama” Morton in Chicago, for instance, she was instead given the role of Mary Sunshine, a news reporter who is revealed to be a man at the end of the show.
