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.

Filmography

• Agatha Christie's Seven Dials — Lady Maria Coote
• Joan — Mrs. May
• Ludwig — DCS Carol Shaw
• 2023Saltburn — Paula Quick
• Stonehouse — Betty Boothroyd
• The Gold — Jeannie Savage
• The Long Shadow — Betty Hoban
• Magpie Murders — Lady Frances Pye
• Pistol — Sylvia Cook
• 2022Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy — Narrator (voice)
• Without Sin — Jessie Cole
• 2021The Electrical Life of Louis Wain — Mrs Du Frayne, Mrs. DuFrayne
• All Creatures Great & Small — Diana Brompton
• Hanna — Therapist
• Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler — Mary Pennyworth
• Next of Kin — Annabel Ghillies
• 2018Peterloo — Singing Weaver
• 2018The Mercy — Eve Tetley
• Harlots — Florence Scanwell
• Strike — Kathryn Kent
• Mum — Pauline
• Code of a Killer — Barbara Ashworth
• 2015Peter & Wendy — Nurse Doyle
• Inside No. 9 — Sheila
• 2014Mr. Turner — Hannah Danby
• 2014That Day We Sang — Gertrude Riall
• Call the Midwife — Jane Sutton
• The Town — Ann
• Vera — Shirley Hewarth
• 2010Chatroom — Emily’s Mother
• PhoneShop — Sue
• 2009May Contain: Nuts — Mrs. Whimhurst
• 2009Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
• Sunshine — Jennifer
• Skins — Receptionist
• 2006Housewife, 49 — Mrs Mac
• Peep Show — Therapist
• 2002All or Nothing — Silent Passenger
• 2002The Final Curtain — Betty
• Murder in Mind — Julie
• 1999Topsy-Turvy — Jessie Bond
• 1997Keep the Aspidistra Flying — Dora
• Midsomer Murders — Angela Lawrence
• Peak Practice — Woman Driver
• Heartbeat — Connie Gibson, Carol Parsons
• London's Burning — Zoe Parrish
• Untitled 13

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2024Inside No. 9: The Party's Over — Self
• Secrets of the Museum — Self - Narrator
• 2014Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made — Self