Dorothy Atkinson
Actor
Biography
Dorothy Caroline Atkinson (born 1966) is an English actress and singer. She has appeared in several plays by playwright Alan Ayckbourn and in films by Mike Leigh, including Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing, and Mr. Turner, which premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and for which she was nominated for the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress. An April 2021 announcement stated that Atkinson would be joining the cast of the second season of All Creatures Great and Small as Diana Brompton.
Filmography
Mr. Turner
as Hannah Danby 2014
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Mrs Du Frayne 2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Mrs. DuFrayne 2021
Chatroom
as Emily’s Mother 2010
The Mercy
as Eve Tetley 2018
All or Nothing
as Silent Passenger 2002
Topsy-Turvy
as Jessie Bond 1999
Peterloo
as Singing Weaver 2018
Peter & Wendy
as Nurse Doyle 2015
Housewife, 49
as Mrs Mac 2006
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as Dora 1997
The Final Curtain
as Betty 2002
That Day We Sang
as Gertrude Riall 2014
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
as Self 2024
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
as Narrator (voice) 2022
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009