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Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 15 June 1934) 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.
Sep 26, 2021 · Eileen Atkins: ‘There are plenty of parts if you’re willing to make yourself look lousy’. Rachel Cooke. From council estate in Tottenham to West End stage, the veteran actor and screenwriter...
Jun 19, 2022 · Atkins, a fit 87 – at one point she gets down on her knees without fuss to fish her bag out from under the seat – hardly eats out in London these days, but she comes here because she follows...
Sep 24, 2021 · The acclaimed actress discusses her family, finding late success – and her bracingly honest new memoir. Mick Brown 24 September 2021 • 5:00am. Dame Eileen Atkins at home Credit: Andrew Crowley...
Dame Eileen June Atkins, 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.
