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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.
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 24, 2010 · She grew up in a Tottenham council house. As a seven-year-old she was sent out to sing and tap in working men’s clubs by her parents to swell the family coffers. At 12 she was given elocution lessons to improve her chances in panto. It proved to be her passport out of Tottenham and into drama school.
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.
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.
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