Eileen Daly

Eileen Mary Theresa Daly (born 1 June 1963) is an English actress, director, film producer, writer, singer, presenter, songwriter and former adult film performer.

She is also a contemporary scream queen, having starred in numerous cult horror films and fronts her own band Eileen and Ben.

Daly was born Eileen Mary Theresa Barnes in Dulwich, London, to Mary (née Daly) and James Barnes Her parents split up when she was three, with her taking her mother's surname.

The granddaughter of boxer Nipper Pat Daly, Daly grew up in Hampton Hill, Richmond upon Thames with her mother and younger brother Dominic.

She briefly attended drama school before dropping out to pursue private acting lessons instead.

Daly left home at a young age and started glamour modelling to earn her living.

Based in London she began starring in various films and magazines, and one of her first magazine appearances was in 1979 with future Ben Dover star and creator Simon Lindsay Honey.

She appeared in films produced by Color Climax Corporation including "Big Tit Dreamer" and "Lucky Lesbians".

Daly has since worked again with Honey on other projects including Loaded TV's sitcom Sexxx and the quiz show Come Again.

Daly lived for a time with video director Tim Pope, who directed promos for bands such as The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

She appeared in several videos for the British synthpop duo Soft Cell including their hit "Tainted Love" released by Some Bizzare Records.

Tim Pope's videos for the band appeared on the video album Soft Cell's Non-Stop Exotic Video Show, a companion release to their debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.

She continued to work as a model throughout the 1980s, and in 1991 starred in Linzi Drew's page 3 Striptacular video.

The collection was originally issued on VHS in 1982 and Betamax and Laser Disk and later re-issued on DVD.

She also contributed articles and wrote columns for several magazines in the 1990s.

Daly was a regular contributor and columnist for the Dark Side, in which she wrote about low-budget films and interviewed directors, producers (she is herself associate producer on several projects), actors and technicians working in the field.

Her column was transferred to DVD and Blu-ray World magazine (itself to cease publication) when the magazine took a break in publication.

Daly has acted in a number of television shows and adverts (Toyota and First Choice among them), and has appeared in programmes such as Snuff Box, Our Friends in the North, EastEnders, Vampyria (documentary), Sex & Shopping, Eurotrash, Beck, The Big Breakfast, Kilroy, Fantasy By Gaslight and The Fast Show.

She also 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.

With the formation of Redemption TV by her then boyfriend Nigel Wingrove, Daly was given the chance to present her own magazine show in which she interviewed musicians, actors, friends and celebrities.

Interviewees included the actor and comedian Matt Berry, Chris Adamson, Morrigan Hel and the band Nosferatu.

During the show she often took part in short skits or sketches with her interviewees.

Daly also 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 (which then showed mostly science-fiction and horror).

In 1996 The People newspaper reported that Daly, who at the time was starring in television advertisements for First Choice Holidays, was a "blue movie queen" who had starred in "kinky videos featuring in bondage and lesbian sex scenes" and said the revelations would come as a shock to the bosses of the holiday booking company.

Throughout this time, Daly also worked as a stripper as well as appearing on several game shows and TV programmes, including roles in the most expensive BBC2 production ever produced at that time, Our Friends in the North.

Daly has also taken part in playreadings at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

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.

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.

Many of these magazines have included features on Daly.

In late 2012 Daly filmed a sitcom set in a sex shop called Sexxx for the newly launched Loaded TV channel.

The series is ongoing and began transmission in late November 2012.

Daly is also a regular celebrity contestant on the Loaded TV game show Come Again, often with former co-star Ben Dover

In 2012 Eileen started her own production company called Gipsyphilia Productions.

With this company she started her career as a director, writer and producer.

One of the first shows she directed was "Daly Does the Dead", a ghost hunting show that takes the team to a haunted hotel in Whitby.

Eileen wrote the scripts for all the shows and films, although most of the acting is improvisation.

Her band Eileen Daly and The Courtesans provided all the music for the productions.

In its first year Gipsyphilia Productions made several magazine and ghost hunting shows: "Mr Crispin at your Cervix", "Daly Does Webcam Girl", "Daly Does Porn Stars", "Daly Does Ghosts" and also had several feature films and shows in pre-production.

Eileen took part in the sixteenth series of Big Brother.

She was evicted on 5 June 2015.