Famous People with Name Eileen

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson: was an English-American actress who was very popular during the years of the Second World War. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942). She was often cast as the leading lady opposite Walter Pidgeon.

Eileen Heckart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eileen Heckart: was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning American actress of stage, screen, and television.Heckart began her Broadway career as the assistant stage manager and an understudy for The Voice of the Turtle in 1943. Her many credits include Picnic, The Bad Seed, A View from the Bridge, A Memory of Two Mondays, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Family Affair, Barefoot in the Park, Butterflies Are Free, and The Cemetery Club. Her awards include a special 2000 Tony Award for Excellence in the Theatre, a 2000 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for the off-Broadway The Waverly Gallery, and the 1953 Theatre World Award for Picnic. Her nominations include a 1996 Drama Desk Award for Northeast Local and Tony nods for Butterflies Are Free, Invitation to a March, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.

Eileen Lemass            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish

Eileen Lemass: is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician.Eileen Delaney was born in Dublin in 1923. She was educated at St. Kevin's School, the National College of Art, Grafton Academy of Dress Designing and the Abbey Theatre School of Acting. She first became involved in politics in 1955 when she was first elected to Dublin City Council. In 1976 she contested the by-election in Dublin South West, following the death of her 47-year-old husband, Noel Lemass, Jnr, a son of former Taoiseach Sean Lemass and a brother-in-law to another former Taoiseach Charles Haughey.

Eileen Fulton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eileen Fulton: is an American actress.Among other roles (including the Broadway productions of The Fantasticks and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), she is most famous for her role as Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, a role she has played almost continually (with two notable interruptions) since May 18, 1960.

Eileen Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Eileen Gordon: is a politician in the United Kingdom.Following her defeat to Rosindell, she returned to work as a researcher for the Labour MP for West Ham, Tony Banks. In 2005, Banks stood down as an MP and moved to the House of Lords as Lord Stratford, where he sat until his death in January 2006.