Dorothy Atkinson

Acting · Born 1966-01-01 · Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

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

• Inside No. 9: The Party's Over (2024)
• Saltburn (2023)
• Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy (2022)
• The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
• The Mercy (2018)
• Peterloo (2018)
• Peter & Wendy (2015)
• That Day We Sang (2014)
• Mr. Turner (2014)
• Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made (2014)
• Chatroom (2010)
• Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas (2009)
• May Contain: Nuts (2009)
• Housewife, 49 (2006)
• The Final Curtain (2002)
• All or Nothing (2002)
• Topsy-Turvy (1999)
• Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
• Agatha Christie's Seven Dials (2026)
• Ludwig (2024)
• Joan (2024)
• The Gold (2023)
• The Long Shadow (2023)
• Stonehouse (2023)