
Dorothy Atkinson
Department: 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.
Known For

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021

That Day We Sang
2014

Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
2022

Saltburn
2023

The Final Curtain
2002

Chatroom
2010

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021

Mr. Turner
2014

Housewife, 49
2006

Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009

All or Nothing
2002

Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
2014

Topsy-Turvy
1999

The Mercy
2018

Peterloo
2018

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997

Peter & Wendy
2015

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024

Skins
2007

The Gold
2023

Secrets of the Museum
2020

Vera
2011

Peak Practice
1993

All Creatures Great & Small
2020

Peep Show
2003

Mum
2016

Magpie Murders
2022

Strike
2017

Heartbeat
1992

Next of Kin
2018

The Town
2012

London's Burning
1986

Code of a Killer
2015

Pistol
2022

The Long Shadow
2023

Sunshine
2008

Harlots
2017

Ludwig
2024

Call the Midwife
2012

Heartbeat
1992

Without Sin
2022

Inside No. 9
2014

Stonehouse
2023

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
2019

Midsomer Murders
1997

Murder in Mind
2001

PhoneShop
2010