Eileen Atkins
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE ( born June 16, 1934 in London) is a British actress and screenwriter.
Biography
Eileen Atkins was born in East London as the daughter of the then 46 -year-old Annie Ellen and the gas meter input reader Arthur Thomas Atkins. Atkins attended school in Edmondon and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Your mother was told by a fortune teller that her daughter had a brilliant career as a dancer in front of him and so she was sent to dance lessons since her childhood in various courses.
Your first appearance Atkins on stage at Open Air Theatre 1953. 1962 she also appeared alongside the likes of actor Laurence Olivier in another play. Since then, she has appeared repeatedly in plays and appeared in a lot of different pieces on how Cymbeline (1988 ), The Night of the Iguana (1992 ), John Gabriel Borkman (1996) and Honour ( 2003).
Soon after, she began as a television actress to become active and appeared in countless series and other TV productions to this day. Especially often it was also seen in literary adaptations such as A Midsummer Night's Dream (1971 ), The Lady from the Sea (1974 ), Elektra (1974 ), Oliver Twist ( 1982), Titus Andronicus (1985 ), Madame Bovary (2000) and David Copperfield (2000).
As a film actress, she was among others in Equus - Blind Horse (1977 ), Wolf ( 1994), Gosford Park ( 2001), Cold Mountain (2003), Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair (2004) and Ask the Dust (2006) to see.
In 2007, she starred in the BBC series Cranford together with, inter alia, Michael Gambon and Judi Dench one of the main roles. This performance won her a BAFTA and an Emmy Award.
In 1990 she was named recipient of the Order of the British Empire since 2001 and must mention lady. In 2010 she was in the black comedy strips Wild Target - to see His hottest destination along with Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint. In the same year she representative of Vanessa Redgrave took over the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in Ridley Scott's Robin Hood.
Together with actress Jean Marsh she developed at the beginning of the 1970s for ITV, the world's most successful television series The house at Eaton Place. 2010 Christmas trilogy was filmed as a sequel for the BBC. Atkins took over for the role of Lady Maud Holland.
Personal
Atkins was married to actor Julian Glover since 1957; the marriage was divorced in 1966. In 1978 she married her second husband, Bill Shepherd.