Eileen Essell
Acting Born Oct 8, 1922 London, England, UK 17 credits
Biography
Eileen Essell (October, 8 1922 – February 15, 2015) was an English actress noted in part for the age at which she began her screen acting career.
Although she acted on the stage for 13 years in the 1940s and 50s, her first screen performance was in her late 70s, in an episode of Doctors, and has since appeared in many other TV programmes, including The Bill, Doc Martin, Holby City, Hustle, Casualty, Ideal and Sensitive Skin.
On film she appeared in Finding Neverland (2004), Ali G Indahouse (2002), The Producers (2005), and as Grandma Josephine in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005).
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Full filmography
- Heartbeat (1992) as Mrs Elsie Gray
- Hustle (2004) as Mary
- Torchwood (2006) as Christina
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) as Grandma Josephine
- Law & Order: UK (2009)
- Ideal (2005) as Mrs Coneybear
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) as Aunt Blossom
- Land Girls (2009) as Miss Gwen Ganderton
- Canterbury Tales (2003) as Mrs Jean Smallwood
- Strange (2003) as Miss Otterman
- The Producers (2005) as Hold Me-Touch Me
- Finding Neverland (2004) as Mrs. Snow
- Ali G Indahouse (2002) as Mrs. Hugh
- Duplex (2003) as Mrs. Connelly
- Sensitive Skin (2005) as Mother
- Demons (2009)
- Feel the Force (2006)