Dorothy Atkinson

Dorothy Atkinson is an English actress and singer who has worked extensively with playwright Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, where she played the Queen in The Boy Who Fell Into a Book in 1998. Born in Mansfield in 1966, she earned a Barclays Theatre Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2002 for Eden End. Her stage credits also include the Royal Shakespeare Company's Beauty and the Beast in 2003, Epitaph for George Dillon in 2006, and the National Theatre's A Matter of Life and Death in 2007; in 2010 she made her Broadway debut in Brief Encounter with the Kneehigh Theatre Company. Mike Leigh directed her in Topsy-Turvy (1999) and Mr. Turner (2014), the second of which brought her a BIFA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. On television she has played Zoe Parrish in London's Burning, Jane Sutton in Call the Midwife, Pauline in Mum, Florence Scanwell in Harlots, and Mary Pennyworth in Pennyworth.