Eileen Nicholas

Actor Glasgow, Scotland, UK 1968–2025 (57 year career)

5.9 avg rating

Biography

Eileen Nicholas was born in 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Trainspotting (1996), T2 Trainspotting (2017) and Bomber (2009).

Known For

Film

Trainspotting

Renton's Mother

Film

T2 Trainspotting

Renton's Mother (archive footage)

Film

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

Trish

Film

Broken

Nan

Film

Estranged

Marilyn

Film

The Wee Man

Mrs. Gillespie

Film

The Hack

Isobel Hulsmann

Film

London Heist

Sheila

Filmography

Acting (30)

Movies (17)

The House of Bernarda Alba

2024

as María Josefa

4.5

Hear My Voice

2021

as Mike's grand-mother

5.0

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

2018

as Trish

6.3

T2 Trainspotting

2017

as Renton's Mother (archive footage)

London Heist

as Sheila

Estranged

as Marilyn

Mind the Gap

as Margaret

The Wee Man

as Mrs. Gillespie

Bomber

as Valerie

Half Broken Things

as Mrs Dawson

Lump

Regeneration

as Miss Crowe

Karmic Mothers

Trainspotting

as Renton's Mother

The Widowmaker

as Mum

Death of a Son

1989

as Mobile Librarian

3.5

The Thin End of the Wedge

1977

as Mary

Television (13)

The Hack

as Isobel Hulsmann

Django

as Little Dove

Broken

as Nan

Holby City

as Susannah Wetherley

No Job for a Lady

as Mona

Casualty

as Mary Calthorn

C.A.T.S. Eyes

as Mrs. Dunbar

Mitch

as Joyce Barlow

House on the Hill

as Coral McKenzie

To Serve Them All My Days

as Esther

Minder

as Jane

The Legend of King Arthur

1979

as Margaret

7.0

The Borderers

1968

as Agnes Ker