Dame Eileen June Atkins, born on 15 June 1934, is an English actress and writer who has worked in the theatre, film and television consistently since 1953. She is a three-time Olivier Award winner, for Best Supporting Performance in 1988 and Best Actress for The Unexpected Man (1999) and Honour (2004), and in 2008 she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress and an Emmy Award for Cranford. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990 and a Dame Commander in 2001. The atlas records her with Jean Marsh as a creator of the television drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
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Dame Eileen June Atkins (born 15 June 1934) is an English actress and writer. She has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. She is a three-time Olivier Award winner, winning Best Supporting Performance in 1988 (for Multiple roles) and Best Actress for The Unexpected
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She is 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).
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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.
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She has played the writer on stage in Patrick Garland's adaptation of A Room of One's Own and also in Vita and Virginia, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show and an Obie Award for A Room of One's Own in which she also played in the 1990 television version; she also provided the screenplay for the 1997 film adaptation of Woolf's novel Mrs.
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Along with fellow actress Jean Marsh, she created the concept for an original television series, Behind the Green Baize Door, which became the award-winning ITV series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-75).
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