Eileen Atkins
Awards and nominations
Note: Atkins also received an Honorary Drama Desk Award in 1995.

Eileen Atkins

Section Title: Awards and nominations
Table Section Text: Note: Atkins also received an Honorary Drama Desk Award in 1995.

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result

1967	Tony Award	Best Actress in a Play	The Killing of Sister George	Nominated

1970	BAFTA TV Award	Best Actress	The Heiress (BBC Play of the Month) Double Bill (The Wednesday Play) The Letter (W. Somerset Maugham)	Nominated

1972	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Performance	Vivat! Vivat! Regina!	Won

1972	Tony Award	Best Actress in a Play	Vivat! Vivat! Regina!	Nominated

1978	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play	The Night of the Tribades	Won

1978	Olivier Award	Best Actress in a Revival	Twelfth Night	Nominated

1981	Olivier Award	Best Actress in a New Play	Passion Play	Nominated

1983	BAFTA Film Award	Best Supporting Actress	The Dresser	Nominated

1988	Olivier Award	Best Supporting Performance	Cymbeline The Winter's Tale Mountain Language	Won

1991	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding One Person Show	A Room of One's Own	Won

1992	Olivier Award	Best Supporting Actress	The Night of the Iguana	Nominated

1995	Tony Award	Best Actress in a Play	Indiscretions	Nominated

1997	Olivier Award	Best Actress	John Gabriel Borkman	Nominated

1999	Olivier Award	Best Actress	The Unexpected Man	Won

2001	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actress in a Play	The Unexpected Man	Nominated

2001	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Cast	Gosford Park	Won

2004	Olivier Award	Best Actress	Honour	Won

2004	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actress in a Play	The Retreat From Moscow	Nominated

2004	Tony Award	Best Actress in a Play	The Retreat From Moscow	Nominated

2008	BAFTA TV Award	Best Actress	Cranford	Won

2008	Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Cranford	Won

2008	Golden Globe	Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Cranford	Nominated

2011	Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie	Upstairs Downstairs	Nominated

2018	Olivier Award	Best Actress	The Height of the Storm	Nominated

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Atkins made her debut in The Killing of Sister George, for which she received the first Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play in 1967.

final_sentence: Atkins made her debut in The Killing of Sister George, for which she received the first Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play in 1967.