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Eileen Atkins is an English actress and screenwriter who has worked in theatre, film and television since 1953. She has won several awards, including BAFTA, Emmy and Olivier, and co-created the TV dramas Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Elliot.
Eileen Atkins is a British actress, writer and co-creator of Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott. She has starred in films such as Gosford Park, Cold Mountain and The Queen, and TV shows such as Doc Martin, The Crown and Vicious.
- January 1, 1
- 1.69 m
- Clapton, London, England, UK
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.
- June 16, 1934
Dec 29, 2021 · 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...
- Miranda Seymour
Jan 19, 2014 · 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.
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Jun 16, 2024 · She Fell Among Thieves. Dame Eileen Atkins takes us back to 1920s France and a fantastic world of foul play, chateaus, dungeons and fast cars in Tom Sharpe’s 1978 adaptation of Dornford Yates's...
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