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Eileen Essell

  • Born Oct. 8, 1922
  • London, England, UK
  • Died Feb. 15, 2015, aged 92

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, …

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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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Grandma Josephine

Mrs. Snow

Mrs. Connelly

Mrs Hugh

Christina

Hold Me-Touch Me

Mary

Aunt Blossom

Mrs Coneybear

Mrs Elsie Gray

Miss Gwen Ganderton

Mrs Jean Smallwood

Mother

Miss Otterman