Eileen Atkins: movies and TV shows
Eileen Atkins has 128 credits in the archive: 76 films and 52 TV series, from 1944 to 2024. Highest rated: Doc Martin (8.3/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2024 · busiest year: 1964 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Wicked Little Letters | Mabel | Film | 6.9 | 90 |
| 2023 | Siân Phillips at 90 | Self | Film | — | 89 |
| 2022 | Remembers… | Self | TV | 7.0 | 88 |
| 2022 | Farewell Doc Martin | Self | Film | 10.0 | 88 |
| 2019 | Vita & Virginia | Film | 6.8 | 85 | |
| 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self | Film | 6.8 | 84 |
| 2017 | Paddington 2 | Madame Kozlova | Film | 7.5 | 83 |
| 2017 | Carnage: Swallowing the Past | Dorothy | Film | 6.4 | 83 |
| 2016 | The Crown | Queen Mary | TV | 8.2 | 82 |
| 2016 | ChickLit | Peggy Law | Film | 5.4 | 82 |
| 2015 | Rosamunde Pilcher: Fighting for Her Family | Catherine Maier | TV | 10.0 | 81 |
| 2014 | Magic in the Moonlight | Aunt Vanessa | Film | 6.5 | 80 |
| 2013 | Beautiful Creatures | Emmaline Duchannes | Film | 6.0 | 79 |
| 2012 | The Scapegoat | Lady Spence | Film | 6.4 | 78 |
| 2011 | Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love | Violet Aird | TV | 6.3 | 77 |
| 2010 | Upstairs Downstairs | Maud, Lady Holland | TV | 7.4 | 76 |
| 2010 | Upstairs Downstairs | TV | 7.4 | 76 | |
| 2010 | Robin Hood | Eleanor of Aquitaine | Film | 6.4 | 76 |
| 2010 | Wild Target | Mother | Film | 6.5 | 76 |
| 2010 | Psychoville Halloween Special | Nurse Edwina Kenchington | Film | — | 76 |
| 2008 | Last Chance Harvey | Maggie Walker | Film | 6.3 | 74 |
| 2008 | Ballet Shoes | Madame Fidolia | Film | 6.4 | 74 |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | TV | 7.2 | 73 |
| 2007 | Cranford | Miss Deborah Jenkyns | TV | 8.1 | 73 |
| 2007 | Evening | Nachtschwester | Film | 5.8 | 73 |
| 2006 | Ask the Dust | Mrs. Hargraves | Film | 5.4 | 72 |
| 2006 | Scenes of a Sexual Nature | Iris | Film | 5.3 | 72 |
| 2006 | The Feast of the Goat | Aunt Adelina | Film | 5.3 | 72 |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Lady Tressilian | TV | 7.8 | 70 |
| 2004 | Doc Martin | Ruth Ellingham | TV | 8.3 | 70 |
| 2004 | Vanity Fair | Miss Matilda Crawley | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 2004 | The Queen of Sheba's Pearls | Film | 5.8 | 70 | |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Maddy | Film | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2003 | What a Girl Wants | Jocelyn Dashwood | Film | 6.3 | 69 |
| 2003 | A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda | Amanda | Film | 6.0 | 69 |
| 2002 | The Hours | Barbara in the Flower Shop | Film | 7.3 | 68 |
| 2002 | Bertie and Elizabeth | Queen Mary | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2002 | The Making of Gosford Park | Self | Film | 5.3 | 68 |
| 2002 | The Mind and Times of Virginia Woolf | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 68 |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Abigail Dusniak | TV | 7.2 | 67 |
| 2001 | Richard & Judy | Self | TV | 3.4 | 67 |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Mrs. Croft | Film | 6.8 | 67 |
| 2001 | Wit | Evelyn 'E.M' Ashford | Film | 7.3 | 67 |
| 2001 | Women Talking Dirty | Emily Boyle | Film | 5.3 | 67 |
| 2001 | David Copperfield | Jane Murdstone | Film | 6.3 | 67 |
| 2000 | David Copperfield | Jane Murdstone | TV | — | 66 |
| 2000 | Madame Bovary | Marie Louise | TV | 8.0 | 66 |
| 2000 | Easter Tales | The Mourner | TV | — | 66 |
| 2000 | The Sleeper | Violet Moon | Film | 6.5 | 66 |
| 1998 | The Avengers | Alice | Film | 4.5 | 64 |
| 1998 | Talking Heads 2 | Film | 8.5 | 64 | |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Brightman | TV | 5.7 | 63 |
| 1997 | Mrs. Dalloway | Film | 5.7 | 63 | |
| 1995 | Jack & Sarah | Phil | Film | 6.7 | 61 |
| 1995 | Cold Comfort Farm | Judith Starkadder | Film | 6.8 | 61 |
| 1994 | Wolf | Mary | Film | 6.1 | 60 |
| 1993 | The Maitlands | Mrs. May Maitland | Film | — | 59 |
| 1992 | The Lost Language of Cranes | Rose Benjamin | Film | 5.9 | 58 |
| 1991 | The House of Eliott | TV | 6.6 | 57 | |
| 1991 | Performance | Mrs Maitland | TV | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1991 | Let Him Have It | Lilian Bentley | Film | 6.7 | 57 |
| 1991 | A Room of One's Own | Virginia Woolf | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1990 | Chillers | Mrs Waggoner | TV | 6.7 | 56 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Princess Dragomiroff | TV | 8.2 | 55 |
| 1988 | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Virginia Woolf | TV | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1988 | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Reader | TV | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1988 | Talking Heads | Celia | TV | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1988 | T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' | Reader | Film | — | 54 |
| 1988 | Mountain Language | Elderly woman | Film | 4.0 | 54 |
| 1987 | The Vision | Helen Marriner | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 1987 | A Hazard of Hearts | Lady Harriet's Maid | Film | 7.9 | 53 |
| 1987 | Roman Holiday | Countess | Film | 4.7 | 53 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Helen Marriner | TV | 7.1 | 51 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Kitty Higdon | TV | 7.1 | 51 |
| 1985 | A Better Class of Person | Nellie Osborne | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1985 | Titus Andronicus | Queen Tamora | Film | 7.4 | 51 |
| 1985 | The Burston Rebellion | Kitty Higdon | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1984 | Royal Variety Performance 1984 | Film | — | 50 | |
| 1983 | Shades of Darkness | Mrs. Rutledge | TV | 7.7 | 49 |
| 1983 | The Dresser | Madge | Film | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1983 | Bewitched | Mrs. Rutledge | Film | — | 49 |
| 1983 | Nelly's Version | Nelly | Film | 9.0 | 49 |
| 1982 | Smiley's People | Madame Ostrakova | TV | 7.7 | 48 |
| 1982 | Oliver Twist | Mrs. Mann | Film | 6.7 | 48 |
| 1981 | Celebrity Playhouse | Stella Kirby | TV | — | 47 |
| 1981 | Sons and Lovers | Gertrude Morel | TV | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1981 | Sons and Lovers | Gertrude Morel | Film | — | 47 |
| 1978 | She Fell Among Thieves | Vanity Fair | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Vanity Fair | TV | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1977 | Equus | Hesther Saloman | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1977 | Raku Fire | Film | 7.0 | 43 | |
| 1976 | I Don't Want to Be Born | Sister Albana | Film | 5.1 | 42 |
| 1974 | Affairs of the Heart | Kate Cookham | TV | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1974 | The Lady from the Sea | Ellida | Film | 6.0 | 40 |
| 1974 | The Lady's Not for Burning | Jennet Jourdemayne | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1974 | Electra | Electra | Film | 8.0 | 40 |
| 1972 | The Duchess of Malfi | Duchess | Film | — | 38 |
| 1971 | Upstairs, Downstairs | Lady Maud Holland | TV | 7.8 | 37 |
| 1971 | Upstairs, Downstairs | TV | 7.8 | 37 | |
| 1971 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Titania | Film | 10.0 | 37 |
| 1971 | Stage 2 | The Duchess of Malfi | TV | — | 37 |
| 1970 | Solo | TV | — | 36 | |
| 1970 | The Three Sisters | Olga | Film | 6.5 | 36 |
| 1969 | W. Somerset Maugham | Leslie Crosbie | TV | — | 35 |
| 1969 | W. Somerset Maugham | Olive Hardy | TV | — | 35 |
| 1969 | Double Bill | Woman | Film | — | 35 |
| 1968 | Nothing's Ever Over | Her | Film | 8.0 | 34 |
| 1968 | Inadmissible Evidence | Shirley | Film | 7.0 | 34 |
| 1967 | Half Hour Story | Her | TV | 7.5 | 33 |
| 1966 | The Big Man Coughed and Died | The Girl | Film | 10.0 | 32 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Electra | TV | 5.3 | 31 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Olga | TV | 5.3 | 31 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Catherine Sloper | TV | 5.3 | 31 |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Titania | TV | 5.3 | 31 |
| 1965 | Fable | Joan | Film | 7.0 | 31 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | The Girl | TV | 5.2 | 30 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Joan | TV | 5.2 | 30 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Mabel | TV | 5.2 | 30 |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Woman | TV | 5.2 | 30 |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | Eileen | TV | 7.2 | 30 |
| 1964 | The Massingham Affair | Charlotte Verney | TV | — | 30 |
| 1961 | The Square | The Girl | Film | — | 27 |
| 1960 | An Age of Kings | Lady | TV | 5.3 | 26 |
| 1960 | An Age of Kings | Joan la Pucelle | TV | 5.3 | 26 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | — | 22 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 10 |
| Bunker | Film | — | — | ||
| The Lives of Animals | Elizabeth Costello | Film | 7.0 | — |