1. Eileen Mary Theresa Daly was born on 1 June 1963 and is an English actress, director, film producer, writer, singer, presenter, songwriter and former adult film performer.
28 Facts About Eileen Daly
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Eileen Daly is a contemporary scream queen, having starred in numerous cult horror films and fronts her own band Eileen and Ben.
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The granddaughter of boxer Nipper Pat Daly, Daly grew up in Hampton Hill, Richmond upon Thames with her mother and younger brother Dominic.
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Eileen Daly briefly attended drama school before dropping out to pursue private acting lessons instead.
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Eileen Daly left home at a young age and started glamour modelling to earn her living.
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Eileen Daly appeared in films produced by Color Climax Corporation including "Big Tit Dreamer" and "Lucky Lesbians".
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Eileen Daly lived for a time with video director Tim Pope, who directed promos for bands such as The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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Eileen Daly appeared in several videos for the British synthpop duo Soft Cell including their hit "Tainted Love" released by Some Bizzare Records.
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Eileen Daly continued to work as a model throughout the 1980s, and in 1991 starred in Linzi Drew's page 3 Striptacular video.
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Eileen Daly has taken part in playreadings at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
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Eileen Daly was one of the first models for the Agent Provocateur range of lingerie, and appeared on television on The Big Breakfast and Kilroy promoting the brand.
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Eileen Daly has been a cover model for a range of magazines including Skin Two, Time Out, Bizarre, The Dark Side, The Chronicles, Redeemer, Bite Me and Bloodstone.
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Eileen Daly contributed articles and wrote columns for several magazines in the 1990s.
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Eileen Daly was a regular contributor and columnist for the Dark Side, in which she wrote about low-budget films and interviewed directors, producers, actors and technicians working in the field.
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Eileen Daly's column was transferred to DVD and Blu-ray World magazine when the magazine took a break in publication.
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Eileen Daly had an uncredited role as the "example" human female in the Desmond Morris written and presented series The Human Animal about body language, a co-production of the BBC and the Discovery channel broadcast in 1994.
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Eileen Daly filmed several introductions to European horror and cult films, released by Redemption TV, when she appeared in character as the "Dark Angel" in a number of specially shot introductions and promos for the television channel Bravo.
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Eileen Daly is a regular celebrity contestant on the Loaded TV game show Come Again, often with former co-star Ben Dover.
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In 2012 Eileen Daly started her own production company called Gipsyphilia Productions.
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Eileen Daly wrote the scripts for all the shows and films, although most of the acting is improvisation.
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Eileen Daly took part in the sixteenth series of Big Brother.
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Eileen Daly met Nigel Wingrove and together they started up a company called Redemption Films.
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Eileen Daly used an image of Daly as its logo and this became part of its marketing strategy with Daly featuring as Redemption's Dark Angel in specially filmed intros for the many foreign and cult films released on the label.
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Eileen Daly has acted as associate producer on several of her later films.
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Eileen Daly has portrayed a vampire in at least four different characters and has provided voices for animated characters, notably in Monsters of the Id.
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Eileen Daly has worked with Dave McKean, the artist responsible for the covers of The Sandman comic and the film MirrorMask, on his short film N which is available on a DVD collection of short films entitled Keanoshow.
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Eileen Daly released a single entitled "Persuasion" and performed it on Eurotrash on which she was interviewed about her career to date.
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Eileen Daly worked with producer and musician Steven Severin who had provided music for the film Visions of Ecstasy for Nigel Wingrove.