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Caption: Kate Beckinsale, Rufus Sewell, Eileen Atkins, Ivan Kaye, Maria Miles, Jeremy Peters, Louise Rea and Sophie Revell in Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
About Eileen June Atkins
Actress, Miscellaneous Crew, Writer
Born: June 16, 1934
Star sign: Gemini
Height: 5' 7" (1.7 m)
Known for: Cold Mountain (2003), Robin Hood (2010), The Hours (2002), What a Girl Wants (2003)
Source: IMDB
Eileen Atkins was born in a Salvation Army Women's Hostel in north London. Her father was a gas meter reader; her mother, a seamstress and barmaid. A drama teacher taught her how to drop her Cockney accent, and she studied Shakespeare and Greek tragedies. Her breakthrough role in "The Killing of Sister George" took her to Broadway.
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