Dorothy Atkinson
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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Acting History
2024
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over as Self
2024Ludwig as DCS Carol Shaw
2023Saltburn as Paula Quick
2023The Long Shadow as Betty Hoban
2023The Gold as Jeannie Savage
2023Stonehouse as Betty Boothroyd
2022Without Sin as Jessie Cole
2022Pistol as Sylvia Cook
2022Magpie Murders as Lady Frances Pye
2022Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy as Narrator (voice)
2021The Electrical Life of Louis Wain as Mrs Du Frayne
2021The Electrical Life of Louis Wain as Mrs. DuFrayne
2020All Creatures Great & Small as Diana Brompton
2020Secrets of the Museum as Self - Narrator
2019Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler as Mary Pennyworth
2018Peterloo as Singing Weaver
2018The Mercy as Eve Tetley
2018Next of Kin as Annabel Ghillies
2017Strike as Kathryn Kent
2017Harlots as Florence Scanwell
2016Mum as Pauline
2015Peter & Wendy as Nurse Doyle
2015Code of a Killer as Barbara Ashworth
2014That Day We Sang as Gertrude Riall
2014Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made as Self
2014Mr. Turner as Hannah Danby
2014Inside No. 9 as Sheila
2012The Town as Ann
2012Call the Midwife as Jane Sutton
2011Vera as Shirley Hewarth
2010Chatroom as Emily’s Mother
2009Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2008Sunshine as Jennifer
2007Skins as Receptionist
2006Housewife, 49 as Mrs Mac
2003Peep Show as Therapist
2002All or Nothing as Silent Passenger
2002The Final Curtain as Betty
2001Murder in Mind as Julie
1999Topsy-Turvy as Jessie Bond
1997Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Dora
1997Midsomer Murders as Angela Lawrence
1993Peak Practice as Woman Driver
1992Heartbeat as Connie Gibson
1992Heartbeat as Carol Parsons
1986London's Burning as Zoe Parrish