Eileen Atkins

Eileen Atkins

1934-06-16 Clapton, London, England, UK 79 Credits

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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.

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Wicked Little Letters

Wicked Little Letters

2024

as Mabel

7.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Farewell Doc Martin

2022

as Self

10.0
Acting

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

Vita & Virginia

2019

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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

Nothing Like a Dame

2018

as Self

6.8
Acting

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

Paddington 2

2017

as Madame Kozlova

7.5
Acting

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

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

2017

as Dorothy

6.5
Acting

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

ChickLit

2016

as Peggy Law

5.5
Acting

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

Magic in the Moonlight

2014

as Aunt Vanessa

6.5
Acting

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

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures

2013

as Emmaline Duchannes

6.0
Acting

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

The Scapegoat

2012

as Lady Spence

6.4
Acting

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

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal

2011

Acting

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

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion

2011

Acting

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

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret

2010

4.0
Acting

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

Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart

2010

Acting

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

Psychoville Halloween Special

2010

as Nurse Edwina Kenchington

Acting

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

Wild Target

Wild Target

2010

as Mother

6.4
Acting

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

Robin Hood

2010

as Eleanor of Aquitaine

6.4
Acting

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

Last Chance Harvey

2008

as Maggie Walker

6.3
Acting

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

Ballet Shoes

2008

as Madame Fidolia

6.4
Acting

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

Evening

2007

as Nachtschwester

5.8
Acting

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

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

2006

as Iris

5.3
Acting

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

The Feast of the Goat

2006

as Aunt Adelina

5.1
Acting

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

Ask the Dust

2006

as Mrs. Hargraves

5.4
Acting

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

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

2004

5.6
Acting

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

Vanity Fair

2004

as Miss Matilda Crawley

5.8
Acting

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

Cold Mountain

2003

as Maddy

6.9
Acting

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

A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda

2003

as Amanda

5.3
Acting

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

What a Girl Wants

2003

as Jocelyn Dashwood

6.3
Acting

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

The Hours

2002

as Barbara in the Flower Shop

7.3
Acting

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

The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf

2002

as Narrator

Acting

Biography documentary on the writer for "The Hours" DVD special features.

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

The Making of 'Gosford Park'

2002

as Self

5.0
Acting

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

Bertie and Elizabeth

2002

as Queen Mary

5.6
Acting

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

Gosford Park

2001

as Mrs. Croft

6.8
Acting

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

David Copperfield

2001

as Jane Murdstone

6.2
Acting

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

Women Talking Dirty

Women Talking Dirty

2001

as Emily Boyle

5.0
Acting

A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Wit

Wit

2001

as Evelyn 'E.M' Ashford

7.3
Acting

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

The Sleeper

The Sleeper

2000

as Violet Moon

4.0
Acting

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

Madame Bovary

2000

as Marie Louise

6.3
Acting

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

Tales from the Madhouse

2000

as The Mourner

6.5
Acting

Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. ...

Talking Heads 2

Talking Heads 2

1998

7.0
Acting

A series of monologues.

The Avengers

The Avengers

1998

as Alice

4.4
Acting

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

Mrs. Dalloway

1997

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

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

Jack & Sarah

1995

as Phil

6.7
Acting

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

Cold Comfort Farm

1995

as Judith Starkadder

6.8
Acting

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

Wolf

1994

as Mary

6.1
Acting

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

The Maitlands

1993

as Mrs. May Maitland

Acting

There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

The Lost Language of Cranes

The Lost Language of Cranes

1992

as Rose Benjamin

6.2
Acting

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

Let Him Have It

1991

as Lilian Bentley

6.6
Acting

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

A Room of One's Own

1991

as Virginia Woolf

Acting

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

Mountain Language

1988

as Elderly woman

4.0
Acting

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

Roman Holiday

1987

as Countess

4.2
Acting

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

A Hazard of Hearts

1987

as Lady Harriet's Maid

8.1
Acting

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

The Vision

1987

as Helen Marriner

10.0
Acting

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

Titus Andronicus

1985

as Queen Tamora

7.5
Acting

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

The Burston Rebellion

1985

as Kitty Higdon

Acting

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

A Better Class of Person

1985

as Nellie Osborne

Acting

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

The Dresser

1983

as Madge

6.7
Acting

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

Bewitched

1983

as Mrs. Rutledge

Acting

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

Nelly's Version

1983

as Nelly

Acting

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

1982

as Mrs. Mann

6.7
Acting

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

Sons and Lovers

1981

as Gertrude Morel

Acting

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

She Fell Among Thieves

She Fell Among Thieves

1978

as Vanity Fair

7.0
Acting

While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villaino...

Raku Fire

1977

Acting

Canadian film starring Dame Eileen Atkins as a middle aged woman.

Equus

Equus

1977

as Hesther Saloman

7.0
Acting

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

I Don't Want to Be Born

1976

as Sister Albana

5.2
Acting

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

Acting

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

Electra

1974

as Electra

Acting

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

The Lady From the Sea

1974

as Ellida

3.0
Acting

A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.

The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi

1972

as Duchess

Acting

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

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1971

as Titania

Acting

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

The Three Sisters

1970

as Olga

6.0
Acting

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

Double Bill

1969

as Woman

Acting

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

Acting

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

Inadmissible Evidence

1968

as Shirley

6.0
Acting

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

The Big Man Coughed and Died

1966

as The Girl

Acting

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

Fable

1965

as Joan

Acting

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

Acting

Two lonely people meet on a park bench and talk about their lives.

The Lives of Animals

N/A

as Elizabeth Costello

Acting

Elizabeth Costello is invited to Appleton College's annual literary seminar as a guest lecturer. Despite her stature as a celebrated novelist, she opt...