Still of Eileen Atkins in Wild Target (2010)
				
				
						 Caption: Still of Eileen Atkins in Wild Target (2010)
																																				
						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.