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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.
After graduating from the ‘Guildhall School of Music and Drama’ in 1953, Eileen Atkins began her acting career on stage. She landed her first role as Jaquenetta in the play ‘Love's Labour's Lost’, performed at the ‘Open Air Theatre’ in Regent’s 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
Oct 16, 2015 · "I trained to be a dancer until then, then a school teacher, I always think saved my life, he gave me the part of Alice in Alice in Wonderland at school and just immediately told me I should act... As soon as I did it, I thought 'This is it! I don't want to dance any more, stop the dancing, this is it, this is it!'
- Patrick Mclennan
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.
Sep 2, 2011 · Education: The Latymer School; the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Career: Starred in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-75); BAFTA award for best actress 2008 for role in BBC drama series Cranford; played Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 2010 blockbuster Robin Hood.
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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.
