Eileen Way

Born

Eileen Mabel Elizabeth Way

(1911-09-02)2 September 1911

New Malden, Surrey, England

Died16 June 1994(1994-06-16) (aged 82)

Canterbury, Kent, England

OccupationActress

Yearsactive1938–93

Eileen Way
Born	Eileen Mabel Elizabeth Way (1911-09-02)2 September 1911 New Malden, Surrey, England
Died	16 June 1994(1994-06-16) (aged 82) Canterbury, Kent, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1938–93
Spouse	Felix Warden Brown

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]

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 a televised episode of Hancock's Half Hour, The Reunion Party ', as a puritanical former ATS member, 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]