Eileen Atkins

Biography

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Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter.

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Known For

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee

Waking the Dead

Abigail Dusniak

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Princess Dragomiroff

Upstairs, Downstairs

Lady Maud Holland

Richard & Judy

Self

The Wednesday Play

The Girl

BBC Play of the Month

Catherine Sloper

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Wicked Little Letters	Mabel
2023	Siân Phillips at 90	Self
2022	Farewell Doc Martin	Self
2018	Nothing Like a Dame	Self
2017	Carnage: Swallowing the Past	Dorothy
2017	Paddington 2	Madame Kozlova
2016	ChickLit	Peggy Law
2014	Magic in the Moonlight	Aunt Vanessa
2013	Beautiful Creatures	Emmaline Duchannes
2012	The Scapegoat	Lady Spence
2011	Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal
2011	Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion
2010	Wild Target	Mother
2010	Psychoville Halloween Special	Nurse Edwina Kenchington
2010	Robin Hood	Eleanor of Aquitaine
2010	Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart
2010	Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret
2008	Last Chance Harvey	Maggie Walker
2008	Ballet Shoes	Madame Fidolia
2007	Evening	Nachtschwester
2006	Ask the Dust	Mrs. Hargraves
2006	Scenes of a Sexual Nature	Iris
2006	The Feast of the Goat	Aunt Adelina
2004	Vanity Fair	Miss Matilda Crawley
2004	The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2003	Cold Mountain	Maddy
2003	A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda	Amanda
2003	What a Girl Wants	Jocelyn Dashwood
2002	The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf	Narrator
2002	Bertie and Elizabeth	Queen Mary
2002	The Hours	Barbara in the Flower Shop
2002	The Making of 'Gosford Park'	Self
2001	Gosford Park	Mrs. Croft
2001	Wit	Evelyn 'E.M' Ashford
2001	David Copperfield	Miss Jane Murdstone
2001	Women Talking Dirty	Emily Boyle
2000	Madame Bovary	Marie Louise
2000	Tales from the Madhouse	The Mourner
2000	The Sleeper	Violet Moon
1998	The Avengers	Alice
1998	Talking Heads 2
1995	Jack & Sarah	Phil
1995	Cold Comfort Farm	Judith Starkadder
1994	Wolf	Mary
1993	The Maitlands	Mrs. May Maitland
1992	The Lost Language of Cranes	Rose Benjamin
1991	Let Him Have It	Lilian Bentley
1991	A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf
1988	Mountain Language	Elderly woman
1987	A Hazard of Hearts	Lady Harriet's Maid
1987	The Vision	Helen Marriner
1987	Roman Holiday	Countess
1985	A Better Class of Person	Nellie Osborne
1985	Titus Andronicus	Queen Tamora
1985	The Burston Rebellion	Kitty Higdon
1983	The Dresser	Madge
1983	Bewitched	Mrs. Rutledge
1983	Nelly's Version	Nelly
1982	Oliver Twist	Mrs. Mann
1981	Sons and Lovers	Gertrude Morel
1978	She Fell Among Thieves	Vanity Fair
1977	Equus	Hesther Saloman
1976	I Don't Want to Be Born	Sister Albana
1974	Electra	Electra
1974	The Lady From the Sea	Ellida
1974	The Lady's Not for Burning	Jennet Jourdemayne
1972	The Duchess of Malfi	Duchess
1971	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Titania
1970	The Three Sisters	Olga
1969	Double Bill	Woman
1968	Inadmissible Evidence	Shirley
1968	Nothing's Ever Over	Her
1966	The Big Man Coughed and Died	The Girl
1965	Fable	Joan
1961	The Square	The Girl
	The Lives of Animals	Elizabeth Costello

Year	TV Show	Role
2016	The Crown	Queen Mary
2015	Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family	Catherine Maier
2009	Psychoville
2007	Cranford	Miss Deborah Jenkyns
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2004	Doc Martin	Ruth Ellingham
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Lady Tressilian
2001	Richard & Judy	Self
2001	Waking the Dead	Abigail Dusniak
1997	A Dance to the Music of Time	Brightman
1991	Performance	Mrs Mailland
1990	Chillers	Mrs. Waggoner
1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Princess Dragomiroff
1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Virginia Woolf
1988	Talking Heads	Celia
1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Reader
1985	Screen Two	Helen Marriner
1982	Smiley's People	Madame Ostrakova
1981	Sons and Lovers	Gertrude Morel
1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Tamora
1977	BBC2 Play of the Week	Vanity Fair
1971	Upstairs, Downstairs	Lady Maud Holland
1965	BBC Play of the Month	Catherine Sloper
1965	BBC Play of the Month	Electra
1965	BBC Play of the Month	Olga
1965	BBC Play of the Month	Titania
1964	The Massingham Affair
1964	The Wednesday Play	The Girl
1960	An Age of Kings
1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee