![]() From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of the Second World War (1941–45), she danced in working men's club circuits for 15 shillings a time as "Baby Eileen". Although she hated it, she studied dancing from age 3 to 15 or 16. Her mother promptly enrolled her in a dance class. ![]() She saw little Eileen and told her mother that her daughter would be a famous dancer. When Eileen was three, a Gypsy woman came to their door selling lucky heather and clothes pegs. At the time Eileen was born, her mother worked in a factory the whole day and then as a barmaid in the Elephant & Castle at night. Her father did not, in fact, know how to drive and was responsible, as under-chauffeur, mainly for cleaning the car. She was the third child in the family and when she was born the family moved to a council home in Tottenham. Her mother, Annie Ellen (née Elkins), was a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and her father, Arthur Thomas Atkins, was a gas meter reader who was previously under- chauffeur to the Portuguese Ambassador. ![]() Her film appearances include I Don't Want to Be Born (1975), Equus (1977), The Dresser (1983), Let Him Have It (1991), Wolf (1994), Jack and Sarah (1995), Gosford Park (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), Vanity Fair (2004), Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006), Evening (2007), Last Chance Harvey (2008), Robin Hood (2010) and Magic in the Moonlight (2014).Ītkins was born in the Mothers' Hospital in Lower Clapton, a Salvation Army maternity hospital in East London. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film Mrs Dalloway. 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).Ītkins co-created the television dramas Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975) and The House of Elliot (1991–1994) with Jean Marsh. She received subsequent nominations for, Vivat! Vivat Regina! (1972), Indiscretions (1995) and The Retreat from Moscow (2004). 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.Ītkins 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 is also 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 has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934), is an English actress and occasional screenwriter.
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