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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Mill on the Floss, The
- Flush
- Eileen Atkins on Viola
- Will She Do?
- The promise
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Film & TV
Acting · Clapton, London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eileen Atkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Wicked Little Letters — Mabel2024
- Siân Phillips at 90 — Self2023
- Farewell Doc Martin — Self2022
- Remembers… — Self2022
- Nothing Like a Dame — Self2018
- Carnage: Swallowing the Past — Dorothy2017
- Paddington 2 — Madame Kozlova2017
- ChickLit — Peggy Law2016
- The Crown — Queen Mary2016
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family — Catherine Maier2015
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 129
- Total plays
- 622
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Atkins was born in a Salvation Army women's hostel in East London (The Mothers' Hospital in Clapton), the cockney daughter of Annie Ellen (née Elkins), a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and Arthur Thomas Atkins, a gas-meter reader who was previously under-chauffeur to the Portuguese Ambassador. She attended the Latymer Grammar School, Edmonton and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Safety, Activity, and Immune Correlates of Anti–PD-1 Antibody in Cancer
· 2012 · cited 10,827x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,917x
- Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
· 2019 · cited 6,216x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2015 · cited 4,995x
- Renoprotective Effect of the Angiotensin-Receptor Antagonist Irbesartan in Patients with Nephropathy Due to Type 2 Diabetes
· 2001 · cited 4,698x
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Quotes
- “People told me not to go on the internet because I’m angry enough already”
- ““If I publish volume two I’ll have to either be dead or prepared to leave the country,””
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Key facts
- Born
- Eileen June Atkins , ( 1934-06-15 ) 15 June 1934 (age 91) , Clapton , London , England
- Education
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama
- Occupation
- Actress
- Years active
- 1953–present
- Spouses
- Julian Glover ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1957 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1966 ) Bill Shepherd ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1978 ; died 2016 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dame Eileen June Atkins (born 15 June 1934) is an English actress. She has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. She is a three-time Olivier Award winner, winning Best Supporting Performance in 1988 (for Multiple roles) and Best Actress for The Unexpected Man (1999) and Honour (2004). 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. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1990 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2001.
Atkins joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1957 and made her Broadway debut in the 1966 production of The Killing of Sister George, for which she received the first of four Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play in 1967. She received subsequent nominations for, Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1972), Indiscretions (1995) and The Retreat from Moscow (2004). Other stage credits include The Tempest (Old Vic 1962), Exit the King (Edinburgh Festival and Royal Court 1963), The Promise (New York 1967), The Night of the Tribades (New York 1977), Medea (Young Vic 1985), A Delicate Balance (Haymarket, West End 1997) and Doubt (New York 2006).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eileen Atkins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.