Dorothy Atkinson
Acting
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.
Known for
2024Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Self
2023Saltburn
Paula Quick
2022Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
Narrator (voice)
2021The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Mrs Du Frayne
2018The Mercy
Eve Tetley
2018Peterloo
Singing Weaver
2015Peter & Wendy
Nurse Doyle
2014That Day We Sang
Gertrude Riall
2014Mr. Turner
Hannah Danby
2010Chatroom
Emily’s Mother
2009Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2006Housewife, 49
Mrs Mac
2002The Final Curtain
Betty
2002All or Nothing
Silent Passenger
1999Topsy-Turvy
Jessie Bond
1997Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Dora