Dorothy Atkinson
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.
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into...
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Mrs Du FrayneThe extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes...
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Mrs. DuFrayneThe extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes...
Movie pageMr. Turner
as Hannah DanbyEccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes...
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All or Nothing
as Silent PassengerPenny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry...
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Topsy-Turvy
as Jessie BondAfter their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship...
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Chatroom
as Emily’s MotherWhen strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom,...
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The Mercy
as Eve TetleyIn 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and...
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Peterloo
as Singing WeaverAn epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a...
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Peter & Wendy
as Nurse DoyleLucy is a young girl admitted to Great Ormond Street with a heart condition. Whilst there she...
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The Final Curtain
as BettyThe Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as DoraGordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer....
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That Day We Sang
as Gertrude RiallTV Film adaptation of Victoria Wood's hit musical set in Manchester in 1929 and 1969. When...
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Housewife, 49
as Mrs MacDowntrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins...
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Tom Hanks: Hollywood's Mr Nice Guy
as Narrator (voice)Biographical documentary about the life and career of the film star. What lies behind the...
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Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
as uncreditedThis is the time of year when friends and family gather round the television to exchange the...
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Midsomer Murders
as Angela LawrenceThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...
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Vera
as Shirley HewarthA sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England,...
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Call the Midwife
as Jane SuttonDrama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of...
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Skins
as ReceptionistIrreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable...
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All Creatures Great & Small
as Diana BromptonThe heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the...
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Strike
as Kathryn KentA war veteran turned private detective operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street....
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Inside No. 9
as SheilaAn anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Peak Practice
as Woman DriverPeak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...
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Heartbeat
as Connie GibsonSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Heartbeat
as Carol ParsonsSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler
as Mary PennyworthThe origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS...
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Peep Show
as TherapistPeep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has...
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Ludwig
as DCS Carol ShawJohn Taylor lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of...
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The Long Shadow
as Betty HobanDramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world,...
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Magpie Murders
as Lady Frances PyeAn editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.
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Pistol
as Sylvia CookThe story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring,...
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Code of a Killer
as Barbara AshworthBased on the extraordinary true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its...
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Murder in Mind
as JulieMurder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories...
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Harlots
as Florence ScanwellBrothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
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London's Burning
as Zoe ParrishLondon's Burning is a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television...
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The Gold
as Jeannie SavageOn 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across...
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Mum
as PaulineA comedy about a mother at a milestone in her life. We follow her and her family through a year...
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Next of Kin
as Annabel GhilliesWhip-smart general practitioner Dr. Mona Harcourt lives in London with her political lobbyist...
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Stonehouse
as Betty BoothroydDrama following the life and times of disgraced Labour politician John Stonehouse, a high-flying...
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Without Sin
as Jessie ColeExplores the relationship which develops between a grieving mother and the man she believes...
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The Town
as AnnFollowing a family tragedy, 30-year-old Mark Nicholas returns to the town where he grew up....
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Secrets of the Museum
as Self - NarratorUnique arts series venturing behind the scenes at the world famous museum of art, design and...
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Sunshine
as JenniferSunshine is a three-part comedy drama that began on 7 October 2008 on BBC1 from the co-writers...
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