Eileen Essell
October 8, 1922 (102 years old) in London
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).
Known For
Credits
- 2009 · Land Girls as Miss Gwen Ganderton
- 2009 · Law & Order: UK as
- 2009 · Demons as
- 2007 · Secret Diary of a Call Girl as Aunt Blossom
- 2006 · Torchwood as Christina
- 2006 · Feel the Force as
- 2005 · The Producers as Hold Me-Touch Me
- 2005 · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Grandma Josephine
- 2005 · Ideal as Mrs Coneybear
- 2004 · Finding Neverland as Mrs. Snow
- 2004 · Hustle as Mary
- 2003 · Duplex as Mrs. Connelly
- 2003 · Strange as
- 2002 · Ali G Indahouse as Mrs. Hugh
- 1992 · Heartbeat as Mrs Elsie Gray