Dorothy Atkinson
Acting
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.
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Movies (18)
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over2024Self
Saltburn2023Paula Quick
Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy2022Narrator (voice)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain2021Mrs Du Frayne
Peterloo2018Singing Weaver
The Mercy2018Eve Tetley
Peter & Wendy2015Nurse Doyle- Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made2014Self
That Day We Sang2014Gertrude Riall
Mr. Turner2014Hannah Danby
Chatroom2010Emily’s Mother
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas2009
May Contain: Nuts2009Mrs. Whimhurst
Housewife, 492006Mrs Mac
All or Nothing2002Silent Passenger
The Final Curtain2002Betty
Topsy-Turvy1999Jessie Bond
Keep the Aspidistra Flying1997Dora
Shows (31)
Agatha Christie's Seven Dials2026Lady Maria Coote
Joan2024Mrs. May
Ludwig2024DCS Carol Shaw
The Long Shadow2023Betty Hoban
The Gold2023Jeannie Savage
Stonehouse2023Betty Boothroyd
Without Sin2022Jessie Cole
Pistol2022Sylvia Cook
Magpie Murders2022Lady Frances Pye
All Creatures Great & Small2020Diana Brompton
Secrets of the Museum2020Self - Narrator
Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler2019Mary Pennyworth
Hanna2019Therapist
Next of Kin2018Annabel Ghillies
Strike2017Kathryn Kent
Harlots2017Florence Scanwell
Mum2016Pauline
Code of a Killer2015Barbara Ashworth
Inside No. 92014Sheila
The Town2012Ann
Call the Midwife2012Jane Sutton
Vera2011Shirley Hewarth
PhoneShop2010Sue
Sunshine2008Jennifer
Skins2007Receptionist
Peep Show2003Therapist
Murder in Mind2001Julie
Midsomer Murders1997Angela Lawrence
Peak Practice1993Woman Driver
Heartbeat1992Connie Gibson