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Eileen Way

Eileen Way

English actress


Eileen Mabel Elizabeth Way (2 September 1911 – 16 June 1994)[1] was a British actress who appeared in film and television roles in a career dating back to the 1930s. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from the age of 16.[1][2]

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She was in some of the first productions of Tennessee Williams' plays in Great Britain, including playing the role of the Mexican Woman in A Streetcar Named Desire,[3] and appeared at the Bristol Old Vic and Nottingham Playhouse.[4]

She appeared in the TV series Doctor Who, in the serials An Unearthly Child (as Old Mother, the programme's first on-screen death) and The Creature from the Pit (as Karela),[5] as well as in the 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (as Old Woman), based on the serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964).[6] She also appeared in the second series of Poldark (1977) as Aunt Agatha; Century Falls;[5] Upstairs, Downstairs;[1] By the Sword Divided;[7] Inspector Morse;[1] Bergerac; and Ripping Yarns.[8]

She was married to the psychiatrist Felix Warden Brown.[9]

Filmography

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References

  1. "Obituary: Eileen Way". The Independent. 2 July 1994.
  2. Fabrique. "Eileen Way — RADA". www.rada.ac.uk.
  3. "Eileen Way obituary". The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  4. "Eileen Way". BFI. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017.

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