Eve Hewson, the actress and daughter of Bono and his wife Ali, has signed up with one of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies.
Hewson, 26, will be represented by Creative Artists Agency, joining Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Steven Spielberg.
She landed her first big role alongside Sean Penn in Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place and starred in The Knick on US television.
She graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts in New York and appeared in the video of the Script’s single For the First Time.
She has also just finished filming a remake of Robin Hood, in which she plays Maid Marian opposite Taron Egerton. It also stars Jamie Dornan, Jamie Foxx and Ben Mendelsohn. Her next role will be alongside Charlie Hunnam in a remake of the 1973 prison escape film Papillon.
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Hewson has previously said that her parents, in particular her father, had been against her pursuing an acting career. “I basically said to my dad that ‘Look, I’m just as passionate about movies as you were about music, and when you were 18 you wouldn’t let anyone stop you so you’ve gotta let me do this’.” She insisted that having a rock star father had little influence.
“What’s great about Hollywood is that it is so cut-throat and it really f***ing doesn’t matter who you are,” she told Daily Beast. “If you’re not right for the part, you’re not right for the part. No director is going to sacrifice their film because they want someone’s famous kid in it for a headline.”