Dorothy trained at The Drama Centre, London. Her acting career includes repertory and an extensive touring history. She has played Shirley in Shirley Valentine, Anna in Joanna Murray Smith’s Love Child, Susan in Broken for the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich’s New Writing Festival, the Governess in The Turn of the Screw at Chester Gateway, Gertrude in Hamlet, Juliana Bordereau in The Aspern Papers, Violet in Doo Cot’s Ultraviolet, directed by Anna Furse, the Governess in Intermezzo, directed by Christopher Fettes at Greenwich Theatre, Nina Hamnett in Breaking the Frame, Wendy in Strippers at the Palace Theatre Westcliff, Lady Chevely in An Ideal Husband, Laura in the stage adaptation of Laura and Ruth in Ayckbourn’s Living Together, Phyllis in Season’s Greetings at Sheringham, Peggy in C.P. Taylor’s And A Nightingale Sang and Olivia in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe. Dorothy is a founder member of her own company The Lions Part and was part of the cast who devised the hit show, Lilies on the Land, from 150 letters sent by former Land Army women. Dorothy produced the show on its sell-out National tour to fifty venues in ten
weeks whilst playing the part of Margie from County Durham.
Her TV credits include A Woman of Substance, Kate in Catherine Cookson’s Our Kate for LWT, Sorrel and Son for YTV and Ransome and Takeover for the BBC. Films include Louise in Models Required and Lady Henrietta in The Lady and The Highwayman, directed by John Hough