FrameThrower · Actors · Dorothy Atkinson
Dorothy Atkinson
2 films · 69 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1999–2014
Born 1 January 1966 · Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Dorothy Caroline Atkinson 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.
How their films are shot
Measured across 69 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dorothy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 61% of their frames are day, 64% natural — the look of the work Dorothy takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 69 frames from Dorothy Atkinson's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.