Eileen Atkins

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Wild Target (FILM) Oct. 29, 2010

Robin Hood (FILM) May. 14, 2010

Last Chance Harvey (FILM) Dec. 25, 2008

Ballet Shoes (FILM) Aug. 26, 2008

Evening (FILM) Jun. 29, 2007

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HIGHLIGHTS

At the urging of her parents, began tap-dancing and singing in bars in London's East End at the age of 7.

Got her start with the Royal Shakespeare Company as an usher; made her Stratford debut as Peggy Ashcroft's understudy in As You Like It.

First big-screen role came with 1968 British drama Inadmissible Evidence.

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Robin Hood 2010 -Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

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Wild Target 2010 -Mother

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Last Chance Harvey 2008 -Maggie Walker

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Ballet Shoes 2008 -Madama Fidolia

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Evening 2007 -The Night Nurse

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Ask the Dust 2006 -Mrs. Hargraves

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Vanity Fair 2004 -Miss Matilda Crawley

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Cold Mountain 2003 -Maddy

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What a Girl Wants 2003 -Jocelyn Dashwood

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The Hours 2002 -Barbara in the flower shop

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Gosford Park 2001 -Mrs. Croft

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Let Him Have It 1991 -Lilian Bentley

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A Room of One's Own

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Cranford -Miss Deborah

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Sleeper

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Smiley's People -Madame Ostrakova

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Wit -E.M. Ashford

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The Feast of the Goat 2006

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The Avengers 1998 -Alice

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Mrs. Dalloway 1998

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Cold Comfort Farm 1996 -Judith Starkadder

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Jack and Sarah 1996 -Phil

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Wolf 1994 -Mary

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The Dresser 1983 -Madge

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Inadmissible Evidence 1968 -Shirley

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The Children's Rebellion

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The Devil Within Her -Sister Albana

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The Lady from the Sea -Ellida Wangel

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The Lost Language of Cranes -Rose Benjamin

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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls -School Matron

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The Three Sisters -Olga

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The Vision -Helen Marriner

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Nelly's Version -Nelly

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Oliver Twist -Mrs. Bumble

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Raku Fire

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Roman Holiday -Countess

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Scenes of a Sexual Nature

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Shades of Darkness: Bewitched

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She Fell Among Thieves -Vanity Fair

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Smiley's People -Madame Ostrakova

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Bertie & Elizabeth -Queen Mary

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Cranford -Miss Deborah

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David Copperfield -Jane Murdstone

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Egy Het Pesten Es Budan -Amanda

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Equus -Hesther Saloman

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A Better Class of Person

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A Dance to the Music of Time

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A Hazard of Hearts

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A Midsummer Night's Dream -Titania

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Women Talking Dirty -Emily Boyle

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Wit -E. M. Ashford

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Highlights

At the urging of her parents, began tap-dancing and singing in bars in London's East End at the age of 7.

Got her start with the Royal Shakespeare Company as an usher; made her Stratford debut as Peggy Ashcroft's understudy in As You Like It.

First big-screen role came with 1968 British drama Inadmissible Evidence.

Was co-creator, with Jean Marsh, of the landmark '70s British drama Upstairs, Downstairs, as well as the early-'90s BBC series The House of Elliott.

Has played author Virginia Woolf a number of times, including stage and TV adaptations of her one-woman show A Room of One's Own, as well as the play Vita and Virginia.

Was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2001.