Eileen McCallum, MBE (born 2 December 1936) is a Scottish actress who is best known for playing the part of shopkeeper Isabel Blair through the complete run of soap opera Take the High Road from 1980 to 2003, and as Liz Hamilton from 2005 to 2018 in the BBC Scotland soap River City.
[5] Series creator Don Houghton praised McCallum and her co-star Marjorie Thomson for their clarity as speakers of the Scots dialect, an essential attribute of their respective roles in the programme.
[7] Other notable roles include playing Dolly in the television version of Tony Roper's The Steamie and guest appearances in programmes such as Rebus, Still Game and New Tricks.
In 2006, she joined the cast of the BBC Scotland soap opera River City as Liz Buchanan, then later Hamilton.
[3] She lives in Edinburgh and runs a trust about Duchenne muscular dystrophy, due to having two grandsons with the disease.