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Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. She has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. She has won several major acting awards, including a BAFTA, an Emmy and three Olivier's. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1990 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2001.
Atkins joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1957 and made her Broadway debut in the 1966 production of The Killing of Sister George, for which she received the first of four Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play in 1967. She received subsequent nominations for, Vivat! Vivat Regina! in 1972, Indiscretions in 1995 and The Retreat from Moscow in 2004. In the UK, she has won three Olivier Awards, for Best Supporting Performance (for multiple roles) in 1988 and two for Best Actress, for The Unexpected Man in 1999 and Honour in 2004.
Other stage credits include, Twelfth Night (Old Vic London, 1961 & 1978), The Tempest (Old Vic 1962), Exit the King with Alec Guinness (Edinburgh Festival and Royal Court 1963), The Promise (New York 1967), The Night of the Tribades (New York 1977), Medea (Young Vic 1985), A Delicate Balance with Maggie Smith (Haymarket, West End 1997) and Doubt (New York 2006).
Eileen Atkins stars as Celia, a cautious seller of old furniture and clocks, in Alan Bennett's spellbinding monologue The Hand of God, a perfectly paced 32-minute gem. Filmed in half-a-dozen simple scenes set in a modest antiques shop, the story involves Celia's daily battle to keep the stock moving. Celia is an antiques dealer who just about manages to make a living but with stock ever harder to come by. Then one day Celia lucks into a Good Samaritan relationship with Miss Ventriss, a dying woman who owns a home stocked with treasures. It's almost more than Celia's honest, if avaricious, conscience can bear. As in many of Bennett's pieces, the story develops in a miraculous direction that gives it the taut impact of a fable -- or at least the sober moral of a cautionary tale. YOU MUST HOW...
Eileen Atkins Interview The Crown Netflix Premiere Subscribe to Red Carpet News: http://bit.ly/1s3BQ54 Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Eileen Atkins, Stephen Daldry, Peter Morgan & VIP guests talk about new Netflix royal family drama series The Crown at the red carpet world premiere in Leicester Square. Check out our other videos for more interviews and in depth coverage Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film & Entertainment News. Featuring exclusive content and interviews for Game Of Thrones, Sherlock, Hunger Games, Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and so much more. Visit our homepage at http://www.redcarpetnewstv.com or follow us on Twitter @RedCarpetNewsTV for exclusive daily updates, reviews, photo galleries and more. Don't forget to subscribe...
The renowned actress and star of ITV's Doc Martin talks about her six decades as an actor
First aired: November 30, 2013. Theater Talk welcomes Dame Eileen Atkins and Sir Michael Gambon now appearing Off-Broadway in "All That Fall" by Samuel Beckett. Beckett wrote "All That Fall" as a radio play (first broadcast in 1957) and refused to allow it to be done as a live play, saying, "To act it is to kill it." Atkins and Gambon tell how they worked with director Sir Trevor Nunn (and Beckett's estate) to bring this work, in which Atkins portrays an obese "and hysterical old hag" and Gambon her blind crippled and possibly demented husband, to the stage. Our interview with these two great actors makes it clear why The New York Times called this production, "a triumph for Ms. Atkins and company and for the singular art of Beckett."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone FNWJR playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=72144E4796241B73 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Fridays 10:35pm on BBC One, repeated late on Saturdays. Jonathan Ross is joined in the studio by actor Colin Farrell.
A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures which Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928 to the women students there. It is performed here by the British actress Eileen Atkins.
Actress Eileen Atkins talks about starring in John Patrick Shanley's play "Doubt", taking over the role from Cherry Jones. Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins. The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week's show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.) The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contr...
The first scene of my favourite play. 'The female of the species' by Joanna Murray-Smith starring Eileen Atkins. 2008
Eileen Atkins Interview The Crown Netflix Premiere Subscribe to Red Carpet News: http://bit.ly/1s3BQ54 Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Eileen Atkins, Stephen Daldry, Peter Morgan & VIP guests talk about new Netflix royal family drama series The Crown at the red carpet world premiere in Leicester Square. Check out our other videos for more interviews and in depth coverage Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film & Entertainment News. Featuring exclusive content and interviews for Game Of Thrones, Sherlock, Hunger Games, Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and so much more. Visit our homepage at http://www.redcarpetnewstv.com or follow us on Twitter @RedCarpetNewsTV for exclusive daily updates, reviews, photo galleries and more. Don't forget to subscribe...
The renowned actress and star of ITV's Doc Martin talks about her six decades as an actor
British actress Eileen Atkins talks about starring in John Patrick Shanley's play "Doubt"
First aired: November 30, 2013. Theater Talk welcomes Dame Eileen Atkins and Sir Michael Gambon now appearing Off-Broadway in "All That Fall" by Samuel Beckett. Beckett wrote "All That Fall" as a radio play (first broadcast in 1957) and refused to allow it to be done as a live play, saying, "To act it is to kill it." Atkins and Gambon tell how they worked with director Sir Trevor Nunn (and Beckett's estate) to bring this work, in which Atkins portrays an obese "and hysterical old hag" and Gambon her blind crippled and possibly demented husband, to the stage. Our interview with these two great actors makes it clear why The New York Times called this production, "a triumph for Ms. Atkins and company and for the singular art of Beckett."
Eileen Atkins Interview The Crown Netflix Premiere Subscribe to Red Carpet News: http://bit.ly/1s3BQ54 Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Jared Harris, Eileen Atkins, Stephen Daldry, Peter Morgan & VIP guests talk about new Netflix royal family drama series The Crown at the red carpet world premiere in Leicester Square. Check out our other videos for more interviews and in depth coverage Red Carpet News brings you all the latest Film & Entertainment News. Featuring exclusive content and interviews for Game Of Thrones, Sherlock, Hunger Games, Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who and so much more. Visit our homepage at http://www.redcarpetnewstv.com or follow us on Twitter @RedCarpetNewsTV for exclusive daily updates, reviews, photo galleries and more. Don't forget to subscrib...
There was a regal air in Leicester Square, London as the latest drama to centre on our Royal family, The Crown, airs on Netflix and Premiere Scene’s Claire Bueno and Anthony Bueno were swapped their microphone for a sceptre to interview actors Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Dame Eileen Atkins, writer Peter Morgan and director / producer Stephen Daldry as they attend their World Premiere. Join us as we ask Claire Foy about the honour of playing Queen Elizabeth II, Matt Smith about his portrayal of Prince Phillip, Eileen Atkins about the responsibility of being a member of the Royal Family, Stephen Daldry about the strong script and Peter Morgan about the fruition of wanting to tell this story. Unauthorised use of this content is prohibited and protected by © Premiere Scene. To purchase interview ...
Cassam Looch interviews Dame Elieen Atkins (Queen Mary) for HeyUGuys on the red carpet of the premiere of Netflix's new series The Crown held in London's Leicester Square. The series stars Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Vanessa Kirby, Jared Harris, Dame Eileen Atkins & Victoria Hamilton. It was written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Daldry who previously directed Billy Elliot and The Hours. THE CROWN focuses on Queen Elizabeth II as a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world’s most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill. The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne....a new era is dawning. Peter Morgan's masterfully researched scripts...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone FNWJR playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=72144E4796241B73 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Fridays 10:35pm on BBC One, repeated late on Saturdays. Jonathan Ross is joined in the studio by actor Colin Farrell.