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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 is a British actress, writer and co-creator of Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott. She was born in a Salvation Army hostel in London in 1934 and has appeared in many films, TV shows and stage plays.
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- Clapton, London, England, UK
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
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Sep 26, 2021 · Atkins thinks the two women – her mother and Madame Y – must have made a strange double act, going to Parkside school to meet Miss Hall, the headteacher she would come to adore.
Sep 24, 2021 · A much younger friend tells Atkins that she is the most youthful person she knows: interested in everything and always ready to laugh.
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 Mary in The...