Eva Herzigová (born 10 March 1973) is a Czech model and actress.

Herzigová was born in Litvínov, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), the daughter of an accountant mother and an electrician father.[3] Growing up, Herzigová was athletic, "excelling in gymnastics, basketball, track and cross-country skiing."[4] She began her modeling career at the age of 16 after winning a modeling contest organized by the French modeling agency Metropolitan Models[5][6] in Prague in 1989, before she moved to Paris.[7]