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Acting

Eileen Atkins

Career: Active from 1961 to 2019, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 40
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Smiley's People
85/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 54 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Eileen Atkins Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
2.7, average 4.8
Contemporary Realism
3.3, average 5.4
Violence
2.5, average 4.1
Scare
1.0, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 9
Character-Driven 5
Period Drama 5
Melancholy 4
Psychological Drama 4
Literary Adaptation 3
Coming-of-Age 3
Class Conflict 3
British 2
Melancholy Tone 2
Edwardian Era 2
British Comedy 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

104

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

The Lives of Animals

as Elizabeth Costello

2020s

2 titles · average score 58

Bunker

46

as Eileen

Wicked Little Letters

70

as Mabel

2010s

14 titles · average score 63

Vita & Virginia

50

Writer

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

70

as Dorothy

Paddington 2

87

as Madame Kozlova

The Crown

82

TV show · as Queen Mary

ChickLit

25

as Peggy Law

Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family

TV show · as Catherine Maier

Magic in the Moonlight

56

as Aunt Vanessa

Beautiful Creatures

52

as Emmaline Duchannes

The Scapegoat

71

as Lady Spence

Wild Target

50

as Mother

Upstairs Downstairs

73

TV show · as Maud, Lady Holland

Robin Hood

54

as Eleanor of Aquitaine

2000s

25 titles · average score 65

Last Chance Harvey

62

as Maggie Walker

Cranford

72

TV show · as Miss Deborah Jenkyns

Scenes of a Sexual Nature

51

as Iris

Ask the Dust

49

as Mrs. Hargraves

Vanity Fair

53

as Miss Matilda Crawley

What a Girl Wants

49

as Jocelyn Dashwood

Cold Mountain

71

as Maddy

The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf

as Narrator

Women Talking Dirty

64

as Emily Boyle

Wit

81

as Evelyn 'E.M' Ashford

Madame Bovary

62

TV show · as Marie Louise

The Sleeper

67

as Violet Moon

1990s

13 titles · average score 64

The Avengers

21

as Alice

Mrs. Dalloway

65

Screenplay

A Dance to the Music of Time

67

TV show · as Brightman

Cold Comfort Farm

78

as Judith Starkadder

Jack & Sarah

72

as Phil

Wolf

59

as Mary

The Maitlands

as Mrs. May Maitland

The Lost Language of Cranes

70

as Rose Benjamin

A Room of One's Own

as Virginia Woolf

Let Him Have It

79

as Lilian Bentley

Performance

TV show · as Mrs Maitland

Chillers

65

TV show · as Mrs Waggoner

1980s

22 titles · average score 74

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Princess Dragomiroff

Mountain Language

as Elderly woman

The Vision

as Helen Marriner

TV show · as Mrs. Mailer

Titus Andronicus

77

as Queen Tamora

A Better Class of Person

as Nellie Osborne

The Burston Rebellion

as Kitty Higdon

The Dresser

71

as Madge

Nelly's Version

as Nelly

Smiley's People

85

TV show · as Madame Ostrakova

Oliver Twist

65

as Mrs. Mann

Sons and Lovers

TV show · as Gertrude Morel

1970s

13 titles · average score 59

She Fell Among Thieves

as Vanity Fair

Equus

71

as Hesther Saloman

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as Vanity Fair

I Don't Want to Be Born

47

as Sister Albana

The Lady from the Sea

as Ellida

The Lady's Not for Burning

as Jennet Jourdemayne

Electra

as Electra

Affairs of the Heart

TV show · as Kate Cookham

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Titania

TV show · as The Duchess of Malfi

The Three Sisters

as Olga

TV show

1960s

14 titles · average score 61

W. Somerset Maugham

TV show · as Leslie Crosbie / Olive Hardy

Inadmissible Evidence

as Shirley

Nothing's Ever Over

as Her

Half Hour Story

TV show · as Her

The Big Man Coughed and Died

as The Girl

Fable

as Joan

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Electra / Olga

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Joan / Mabel

Theatre 625

TV show · as Eileen

The Massingham Affair

TV show · as Charlotte Verney

as The Girl

An Age of Kings

TV show · as Joan la Pucelle / Lady