Beverly Hope Atkinson (December 9, 1935 – December 11, 2001) was an African-American stage, film, and television actress from the 1960s through 1991, known for her character work playing women down-on-their-luck or caught up in drug addiction. She portrayed a nurse in episode 563 of the original Dark Shadows. Atkinson died of cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 66.