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Atkins was married to British actor Jeremy Young. After divorcing him, she had a six-year relationship with film director Peter Whitehead, with whom she had a son, Harry Whitehead. Atkins died in West Berkshire Community Hospital, Thatcham, West Berkshire on 2 December 2016, from cancer. Her sister Sylvia Vivian Pope is commemorated on the same headstone.

In 1990, Atkins published her memoirs as Seeing Red. The following year, Atkins adapted the book into eight episodes for radio, which were broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2000, ITV dramatised the story in a TV drama of the same name, starring Sarah Lancashire as Atkins. She was also the subject of an episode of the Thames Television show This Is Your Life in 1994. In 1997, she was severely injured in a car crash and had to give up running the children's home.

In 1987 she was offered free use of Gyde House, an Edwardian mansion in the Cotswolds which had more recently been used as an orphanage. She moved 15 children from Crossways into the mansion and local authorities sent her additional children to care for. Some of the children had experienced severe abuse, and attacked the house by setting parts of it on fire, or graffiti-ing the walls.

During the 1980s, Atkins made occasional performing appearances, such as in the BBC One series Flesh and Blood in 1980. She also lobbied for funding and other support to run the home, such as a promotion run by a pharmacy to seek donations.

She was an actress and writer, known for A Family at War (1970), The Avengers (1961) and No Hiding Place (1959). She was married to Jeremy Young and Peter Whitehead.

Atkins began appearing on British television in the 1960s; her television credits included episodes of Dixon of Dock Green, Deadline Midnight, No Hiding Place, The Sweeney, Survivors, The Avengers and The Likely Lads. She also starred as Ruth Jameson in Emmerdale. Her best-known role was that of Sheila Ashton in the 1970s drama series A Family at War.

Coral Atkins was born on September 13, 1936 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England as Coral Rosemary Atkins.

Atkins was born in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, England. Her parents were Eric D. Atkins and Lilian L. Millson. The family moved to Bucklebury when she was young, and she attended Shaw House School in Newbury before returning to London. During World War II Atkins and her sister, Sylvia Vivian Atkins (1933–1990) were evacuated from London to rural England. In her memoir, Atkins stated that she and her sister had been beaten and neglected by caregivers.