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Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 15 June 1934) [a] is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. She has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. In 2008, she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Cranford.
Eileen Atkins. Actress: Gosford Park. Eileen Atkins was born in a Salvation Army Women's Hostel in north London. Her father was a gas meter reader; her mother, a seamstress and barmaid. A drama teacher taught her how to drop her Cockney accent, and she studied Shakespeare and Greek tragedies.
Co-creator (with actress Jean Marsh) of the classic British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971) - making her wonderful presence in the Altman upstairs-downstairs movie Gosford Park (2001) particularly resonant.
Eileen Atkins interview: I realised I really didn't like my mother The acclaimed actress discusses her family, finding late success – and her bracingly honest new memoir
Dame Eileen Atkins interview: From Baby Eileen to a tough old bird. At 11 she was dancing in clubs. Nearing 80, she has a one-woman show at Shakespeare’s Globe. And in between, unlikely liaisons.
Instead, granted time by a seemingly never-ending pandemic, the 87-year-old Eileen Atkins wrote about a challenging and often brutal journey to stardom, recently playing Queen...
Birthday: Jun 16, 1934. Birthplace: Clapton, London, England, UK. Veteran British star of both stage and screen, Eileen Atkins rose from her working-class roots to become one of the most...
Dame Eileen Atkins is a guest on this week’s episode of The Graham Norton Show, which airs Friday (October 22) at 11pm EST on BBC America, and surprisingly, it’s her first ever appearance on the show.
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eileen Atkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Known For. Robin Hood. Cold Mountain. What a Girl Wants. Beautiful Creatures. Magic in the Moonlight. Wild Target. Wolf.
Dame Eileen Atkins' extensive acting credits include the TV series 'Cranford', for which she won a Bafta and an Emmy, and, on stage, 'Honour', for which she won an Olivier. Adam Jacques. Monday...