Atkins filled her résumé with noteworthy performances, but she also proved to be a talented writer, co-creating the classic television drama "Upstairs, Downstairs" with fellow thespian Jean Marsh. She later launched a one-woman show, "A Room of One's Own," earning accolades for her portrayal of noted novelist Virginia Woolf.
In 2008, Atkins earned an Emmy Award for outstanding supporting actress in the BBC drama Cranford, starring opposite Judi Dench.
Cold Comfort FarmWhen Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale), a young society woman in 1930s London, becomes suddenly orphaned, she's forced to take up residence with a group of her unsophisticated, oddball relatives at their farm. Despite protests from the bedridden, iron-willed matriarch of the farm, the aspiring lass... Read More
Poirot: Murder on the Orient ExpressHercule Poirot (David Suchet) faces one of his most baffling cases when an overbearing American businessman turns up stabbed to death aboard the Orient Express, a pan-European train that becomes stuck in a snowdrift en route from Istanbul. With no help available from the outside, Poirot must... Read More
The Lost Language of CranesWhen Philip Benjamin (Angus Macfadyen) informs his parents (Brian Cox and Eileen Atkins) that he's gay, the news prompts his father to come out of the closet, too, throwing the family -- and mom and dad's once-stable marriage -- into turmoil. Corey Parker, Rene Auberjonois and John Schlesinger also... Read More
She Fell Among ThievesAfter the infamous criminal Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins) sedates and kidnaps a beautiful girl and shuttles her off to a chateau in the south of France, it's up to dashing Brit Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell) to rescue the fair maiden. Set in gorgeous 1920s France and adapted from Dornford Yates's... Read More
The Three SistersOlga (Eileen Atkins), Masha (Janet Suzman) and Irina (Michele Dotrice) and their brother Andrei (Anthony Hopkins) share their late father's home in provincial Russia. After enduring 11 years away from their native Moscow, the sisters pin their hopes for return on Andrei's future. But his marriage to... Read More
Wild Target (2010) | PG-13 | |
Robin Hood (2010) | PG-13 | |
Upstairs, Downstairs (2010) | NR | |
NR | ||
Last Chance Harvey (2008) | PG-13 | |
Ballet Shoes (2007) | PG | |
Evening (2007) | PG-13 | |
NR | ||
Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006) | NR | |
Ask the Dust (2006) | R | |
R | ||
What a Girl Wants (2003) | PG | |
Bertie & Elizabeth (2002) | NR | |
Wit (2001) | PG-13 | |
Tales from the Madhouse (2000) | NR | |
Women Talking Dirty (1999) | NR | |
The Avengers (1998) | PG-13 | |
Cold Comfort Farm (1995) | PG | |
Jack and Sarah (1995) | PG | |
Wolf (1994) | R | |
The Lost Language of Cranes (1992) | NR | |
Let Him Have It (1991) | R | |
The House of Eliott (1991) | NR | |
Titus Andronicus (1985) | NR | |
The Dresser (1983) | PG | |
NR | ||
Smiley's People (1982) | NR | |
She Fell Among Thieves (1980) | NR | |
Equus (1977) | R | |
R | ||
NR | ||
NR | ||
The Three Sisters (1970) | NR | |
Inadmissible Evidence (1968) | NR | |
NR | ||
The Avengers (1962) | NR | |
NR | ||
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