Eva Solveig grew up in Reykjavik, Iceland, from where she moved to London to study acting at LAMDA and Rose Bruford College.She also trained at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia in 2012; Gardzienice in Poland in 2012; and at the 'International School of Theatrical Biomechanics' in Perugia, Italy in 2012.In 2012 she launched the theatre company Spindrift Theatre with her classmates Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir, Henriette Kristensen, Anna Korolainen and Niamh Williamson.