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16 June 1934

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

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Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Atkins was born in The Mothers` Hospital in Clapton, a Salvation Army women`s hostel in East London. Her mother, Annie Ellen (née Elkins), was a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and her father, Arthur Thomas Atkins, was a gasmeter reader who was previously under-chauffeur to the Portuguese Ambassador. Atkins attended the Latymer Grammar School, Edmonton and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her mother was told by a gypsy that Eileen would be a great dancer, so she was sent to dancing classes from an early age, and appeared dancing in working man`s clubs as "Baby Eileen" throughout the war years. As an actress her television work has included Three Sisters (1970), A Midsummer Night`s Dream (1971), The Lady from the Sea (1974), Electra (1974), the villainess "Vanity Fair" in Dornford Yates` She Fell Among Thieves (1977), Sons and Lovers (1981), Oliver Twist (1982), Smiley`s People (1982),Titus Andronicus (1985), The Burston Rebellion (1985), A Better Class of Person (1985), Roman Holiday (1987), The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Talking Heads (1998), Madame Bovary (2000), David Copperfield (2000), Wit (2001) and Bertie and Elizabeth (2002). Atkins has regularly returned to the life and work of Virginia Woolf for professional inspiration. She has played the writer on stage (A Room of One`s Own and Vita and Virginia, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for the former) and screen (the 1990 television version of Room); she also provided the screenplay for the 1997 film adaptation of Woolf`s novel Mrs. Dalloway - starring Vanessa Redgrave (her stage costar in Vita and Virginia) - and made a cameo appearance in the 2002 film version of Michael Cunningham`s Woolf-themed novel The Hours. Her other films include Equus (1977), The Dresser (1983), Wolf (1994), Jack and Sarah (1995), Gosford Park (2001), Cold Mountain (2003), Vanity Fair (2004) and Ask the Dust (2006). Atkins was married to Julian Glover in 1957; they divorced in 1966. She has been married to her current husband, Bill Shepherd, since 2 February 1978. She has no children. Atkins was propositioned by Colin Farrell on location in 2004, shortly before she turned 70; she said the incident helped her pass that milestone far more easily than she otherwise would have expected.

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