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Eileen Essell is known for:

  • Finding Neverland
    During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her three children—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan'.
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
  • Duplex
    When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

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Biography

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).