Dame Eileen June Atkins (born 15 June 1934) [a] is an English actress. She has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. ... From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of the Second World War (1941–45), she danced in working men's club circuits for 15 shillings a time as "Baby Eileen". [4] During the war, ...

Vera May Atkins CBE (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) [1] was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War.

From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of WW2, she danced in local working men’s clubs as "Baby Eileen". Another of our contacts, Sheila Brimmer (nee Frost), went to the same dance school as Eileen in Tottenham and kindly sent …

The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements.

The story is about English expatriates living in Italy at the beginning of World War II. Dame Dench recalls, “After a day of shooting, we would drink a whole bottle of Procecco and then try to find our hotel rooms.” Dame Eileen Atkins enjoying an amusing …

When she was five years old, World War II broke out, forcing her mother to ship off her children - as most parents were wont to do during the war - to the countryside village of nearby Little...

Vera Atkins is a name that is largely unknown to the general public, yet she was a British Intelligence officer and a key Special Operations Executive (SOE) figure during World War II. Mainly orchestrating covert missions and managing a network of spies, Vera operated in the shadows — her life cloaked in secrecy.

Feb 15, 1998 · Atkins, 63, the co-creator of the TV series “Upstairs, Downstairs” and “The House of Eliott,” adapted and read Woolf’s diaries for a five-part BBC radio series. Her most recent...

British intelligence agent Vera Atkins (1908-2000), as principal assistant in Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) secret service, administered some of the most sensitive secret operations carried out by Allied forces during World War II.

But in Spymistress, the hitherto unknown Vera Atkins, a covert operations officer, got the sole role, in fact the starring role, in the grand encounter. She took him over.