Biography
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
Complete Filmography

Wicked Little Letters
2024
as Mabel
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is...
Siân Phillips at 90
2023
as Self
Acclaimed actress Dame Siân Phillips is still working at 90. The star of I, Claudius speaks openly about her marriage to Peter O'Toole and reflects on...

Farewell Doc Martin
2022
as Self
Doc Martin, one of UK's iconic TV characters, hangs up his stethoscope for the final time as the long-running titular series comes to an end. This one...

Vita & Virginia
2019
Screenplay
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventi...

Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen togeth...

Paddington 2
2017
as Madame Kozlova
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017
as Dorothy
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the hor...

ChickLit
2016
as Peggy Law
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mum...

Magic in the Moonlight
2014
as Aunt Vanessa
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

Beautiful Creatures
2013
as Emmaline Duchannes
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she m...

The Scapegoat
2012
as Lady Spence
In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal
2011
Laura Aird becomes a successful publishing executive, returning from America and moving to London. However, when her grandmother Violet dies, she leav...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion
2011
Long-forgotten scandals from the Aird clan's ancestral history continue to be exposed, and the chain of revelations reaches a shocking conclusion.

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret
2010
American executive Conrad Tucker sees a photograph in a magazine of the wealthy Aird family's youngest daughter, and begins a quest to discover if she...

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart
2010
In a flashback, Laura Aird is seen withdrawing totally from society after tragedy strikes. Hamish Balmerino is concerned about her state of mind, and ...

Psychoville Halloween Special
2010
as Nurse Edwina Kenchington
Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as location manager Phil Walker investigates the aban...

Wild Target
2010
as Mother
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficienc...

Robin Hood
2010
as Eleanor of Aquitaine
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Rober...

Last Chance Harvey
2008
as Maggie Walker
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning h...

Ballet Shoes
2008
as Madame Fidolia
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But ...

Evening
2007
as Nachtschwester
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first ti...

Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006
as Iris
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in ...

The Feast of the Goat
2006
as Aunt Adelina
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictato...

Ask the Dust
2006
as Mrs. Hargraves
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generati...

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likenes...

Vanity Fair
2004
as Miss Matilda Crawley
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a ...

Cold Mountain
2003
as Maddy
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts ...

A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
2003
as Amanda
Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wou...

What a Girl Wants
2003
as Jocelyn Dashwood
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, sh...

The Hours
2002
as Barbara in the Flower Shop
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...

The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf
2002
as Narrator
Biography documentary on the writer for "The Hours" DVD special features.

The Making of 'Gosford Park'
2002
as Self
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes in...

Bertie and Elizabeth
2002
as Queen Mary
The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively pr...

Gosford Park
2001
as Mrs. Croft
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, ea...

David Copperfield
2001
as Jane Murdstone
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

Women Talking Dirty
2001
as Emily Boyle
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Wit
2001
as Evelyn 'E.M' Ashford
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

The Sleeper
2000
as Violet Moon
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are conside...

Madame Bovary
2000
as Marie Louise
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on...

Tales from the Madhouse
2000
as The Mourner
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. ...

Talking Heads 2
1998
A series of monologues.

The Avengers
1998
as Alice
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the worl...

Mrs. Dalloway
1997
Screenplay
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust ...

Jack & Sarah
1995
as Phil
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. Howev...

Cold Comfort Farm
1995
as Judith Starkadder
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough rela...

Wolf
1994
as Mary
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a ...

The Maitlands
1993
as Mrs. May Maitland
There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
as Rose Benjamin
When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings a...

Let Him Have It
1991
as Lilian Bentley
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangs...

A Room of One's Own
1991
as Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures which Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928 to the women students there. It is performed he...

Mountain Language
1988
as Elderly woman
Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer...

Roman Holiday
1987
as Countess
Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about" away from her normal life. She meets with an American ...

A Hazard of Hearts
1987
as Lady Harriet's Maid
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: ...

The Vision
1987
as Helen Marriner
Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a f...

Titus Andronicus
1985
as Queen Tamora
Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The newly-d...

The Burston Rebellion
1985
as Kitty Higdon
Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, ...

A Better Class of Person
1985
as Nellie Osborne
Adaptation of John Osborne's autobiography about his early life, showing his much-loved but frail father and combative relationship with his mother.

The Dresser
1983
as Madge
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles...

Bewitched
1983
as Mrs. Rutledge
The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies su...

Nelly's Version
1983
as Nelly
People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

Oliver Twist
1982
as Mrs. Mann
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.

Sons and Lovers
1981
as Gertrude Morel
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

She Fell Among Thieves
1978
as Vanity Fair
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villaino...
Raku Fire
1977
Canadian film starring Dame Eileen Atkins as a middle aged woman.

Equus
1977
as Hesther Saloman
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was c...

I Don't Want to Be Born
1976
as Sister Albana
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother onc...
The Lady's Not for Burning
1974
as Jennet Jourdemayne
A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woma...

Electra
1974
as Electra
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

The Lady From the Sea
1974
as Ellida
A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.

The Duchess of Malfi
1972
as Duchess
The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1971
as Titania
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

The Three Sisters
1970
as Olga
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their retu...

Double Bill
1969
as Woman
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant...
Nothing's Ever Over
1968
as Her
An intense court case involving divorce proceedings is adjourned for lunch. Husband and wife then discover they are both going to be eating in the sam...

Inadmissible Evidence
1968
as Shirley
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected...

The Big Man Coughed and Died
1966
as The Girl
Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and decides to change his life.

Fable
1965
as Joan
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
The Square
1961
as The Girl
Two lonely people meet on a park bench and talk about their lives.
The Lives of Animals
N/A
as Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello is invited to Appleton College's annual literary seminar as a guest lecturer. Despite her stature as a celebrated novelist, she opt...