Dorothy Ann Todd (24 January 1907 – 6 May 1993) was an English film, television and stage actress who achieved international fame when she starred in The Seventh Veil (1945).

But during her studies she made her stage debut as a fairy in The Land of Heart's Desire at the Arts Theatre Club in Soho, and decided instead to pursue a career in acting.

She had roles in These Charming People (1931), The Ghost Train (1931), The Water Gipsies (1932) and The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934).

During World War II, Todd was in Poison Pen (1939), Danny Boy (1941), and Ships with Wings (1941).

Todd returned to film post-WWII with a good support role in a big hit, Perfect Strangers (1945, as a nurse), then had a huge success when she played a suicidal concert pianist in The Seventh Veil (1945), opposite James Mason.

"[3] She commented in subsequent interviews that she continued to do her own grocery shopping, and latterly in her autobiography noted that she paid $880,000 in taxes on the contract.

[4] She received a Hollywood offer from Alfred Hitchcock to play Gregory Peck's wife in The Paradine Case (1947), which was a flop.

So Evil My Love (1948), a US-British co production, was a box office disappointment, as was The Passionate Friends (1949), directed by her then husband David Lean.

[6] After co-starring in Ninety Degrees in the Shade in 1965, Todd effectively retired from acting, only returning throughout her life to roles to finance her new career producing a series of travel films.