Background
Her father was a bursar for a school in Nottinghamshire and she has one sister.
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Dorothy Atkinson
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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. This production was conceived originally with the Kneehigh Company (of which she is a member) and she stayed with the show when it moved to New New York
In 2009 Atkinson played Vera in Just Between Our Selves by Alan Ayckbourn at the Northampton.
In 2006 she played Nora in Epitaph for George Dillon at the Comedy and in 2007 the Woman in A Matter of Life and Death at the National. She has performed many shows at the Stephen Joseph with Alan Ayckbourn, including The Boy Who Fell Into a Book, in which she originated the role of the Queen in 1998.
In 2002, Atkinson was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Eden End as Lillian, by the Barclays Awards, an award recognising regional British theatre.
