Eileen Atkins
Birthday: 1934-06-16
Place of Birth: Clapton, London, England, UK
Biography: 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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Cold Mountain
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wou...
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Farewell Doc Martin
Doc Martin, one of UK's iconic TV characters, hangs up his stethoscope for the final time as the lon...
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Ask the Dust
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is compl...
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Jack & Sarah
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on...
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Wolf
An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his j...
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Gosford Park
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation...
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Evening
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, A...
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Vanity Fair
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the positio...
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Cold Comfort Farm
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphane...
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Wit
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian canc...
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The Avengers
British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by ...
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Sons and Lovers
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel...
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I Don't Want to Be Born
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the ...
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The Dresser
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brillian...
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The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf
Biography documentary on the writer for "The Hours" DVD special features....
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Wild Target
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despit...
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The Big Man Coughed and Died
Louie, a married factory worker, has just been made redundant when he meets a girl in a park and dec...
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Let Him Have It
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Cr...
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Last Chance Harvey
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to ...
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Scenes of a Sexual Nature
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved ...
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A Hazard of Hearts
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he r...
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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The Lost Language of Cranes
When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his ...
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David Copperfield
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...
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Women Talking Dirty
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist....
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The Scapegoat
In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a f...
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Electra
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king c...
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The Lady From the Sea
A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in ...
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Magic in the Moonlight
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a ...
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Inadmissible Evidence
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becom...
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She Fell Among Thieves
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A...
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A Better Class of Person
Adaptation of John Osborne's autobiography about his early life, showing his much-loved but frail fa...
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Psychoville Halloween Special
Psychoville returns with a spooktacular hour-long Halloween special. Four tales of terror unfold as ...
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Bewitched
The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, tho...
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Fable
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by bl...
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Ballet Shoes
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy ...
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Robin Hood
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to...
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The Maitlands
There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times....
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Equus
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in ...
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Wicked Little Letters
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of ...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set i...
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The Lady's Not for Burning
A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft ...
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A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to B...
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Beautiful Creatures
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange...
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Double Bill
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a...
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What a Girl Wants
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of fi...
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Titus Andronicus
Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Que...
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The Feast of the Goat
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's rela...
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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of ...
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Bertie and Elizabeth
The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his broth...
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Siân Phillips at 90
Acclaimed actress Dame Siân Phillips is still working at 90. The star of I, Claudius speaks openly a...
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ChickLit
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They gr...
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Tales from the Madhouse
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters re...
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past....
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A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures which Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 19...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-A Healing Heart
In a flashback, Laura Aird is seen withdrawing totally from society after tragedy strikes. Hamish Ba...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Scandal
Laura Aird becomes a successful publishing executive, returning from America and moving to London. H...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-Family Secret
American executive Conrad Tucker sees a photograph in a magazine of the wealthy Aird family's younge...
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Shades of Love-The Reunion
Long-forgotten scandals from the Aird clan's ancestral history continue to be exposed, and the chain...
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Paddington 2
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect pr...
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The Vision
Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel...
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The Hours
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...
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Nelly's Version
People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash....
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Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atki...
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The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry a...
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The Three Sisters
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their...
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Mountain Language
Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allow...
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Roman Holiday
Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about" away...
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The Making of Gosford Park
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Robert Altman's 2001 film 'Gosford Park'. Cast and crew re...
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The Burston Rebellion
Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who r...
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The Lives of Animals
Elizabeth Costello is invited to Appleton College's annual literary seminar as a guest lecturer. Des...
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The Sleeper
Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son...
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Nothing's Ever Over
An intense court case involving divorce proceedings is adjourned for lunch. Husband and wife then di...
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Royal Variety Performance 1984
In the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Pri...
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T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
Read by actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land expresses ...
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