Lindsay Duncan
Actor
Born November 7, 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born November 7, 1950) is a Scottish stage and television actress. She is the recipient of three BAFTA nominations and one Scottish BAFTA nomination, as well as two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her work on stage. She has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Duncan's film credits include Prick Up Your Ears (1987), The Reflecting Skin (1990), City Hall (1996), An Ideal Husband, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Mansfield Park (all 1999), Under the Tuscan Sun, AfterLife (both 2003), Starter for 10 (2006), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), About Time (2013), Birdman (2014), and Blackbird (2019). Outside of stage and film, Duncan appeared as Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's critically acclaimed G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii on the HBO historical drama series Rome (2005–2007), Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" (2009), Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle in the BBC Two miniseries The Honourable Woman (2014), and Lady Smallwood on BBC One's Sherlock (2014–2017). She also portrayed Elizabeth Longford and Margaret Thatcher in the television films Longford (2006) and Margaret (2009), respectively.
Filmography
The Entertainment System Is Down
Mint
Ollie
H Is for Hawk
Mum
The Death of Bunny Munro
Doris Pennington
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
Dora
Truelove
Phil
Doctor Jekyll
Sandra Poole
Call Me Back
Grace
Last Call
Kate
Sherwood
Jennifer Hale
A Banquet
June
Around the World in 80 Days
Jane Digby
The Wheel of Time
Anvaere Damodred
No Ordinary Joe
Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
Made in Italy
Kate
My Zoe
Kathy
National Theatre Live: Hansard
Diana Hesketh
His Dark Materials
Octavia (voice)
Little Joe
Psychotherapist
November 1st
Bonnie
The Morning Show
Martha Ellison
Blackbird
Liz
A Discovery of Witches
Ysabeau de Clermont
Gifted
Evelyn Adler
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Maude
Close to the Enemy
Frau Bellinghausen
He Does Not Want Peace
Rachel Englebright
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Helen Kingsleigh
Churchill's Secret
Clemmie Churchill
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Tabitha
The Honourable Woman
Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
The Leftovers
Grace Playford
Inside No. 9
Loretta Lamb
Toast of London
Last Passenger
Elaine Middleton
Le Week-End
Meg Burrows
Lawless
Lady Justice MacNeil
About Time
Mum
Count Arthur Strong
Dame Agnes
Amish: A Secret Life
Narrator (voice)
The Hollow Crown
Duchess of York
Playhouse Presents
Mrs Dalloway
White Heat
Lilly (present day)
Black Mirror
Alex Cairns
Spy
The Director
Against the Wall
Faith Kowalski
Christopher and His Kind
Kathleen Isherwood
The Sinking of the Laconia
Elisabeth Fullwood
Sherlock
Lady Smallwood
Alice in Wonderland
Helen Kingsleigh
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
Burlesque Fairytales
Ice Queen
Margot
Madam
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
Captain Adelaide Brooke
Margaret
Margaret Thatcher
Merlin
Queen Annis
Lost in Austen
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Criminal Justice
Alison Slaughter
Frankenstein
Jane Pretorius
Longford
Lady Elizabeth Longford
Starter for 10
Rose Harbison
Rome
Servilia of the Junii
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Audrey Pretty
Agatha Christie's Marple
Marina Gregg
Under the Tuscan Sun
Katherine
AfterLife
Working Shakespeare
Spooks
Angela Wells
Hamilton Mattress
Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
Perfect Strangers
Alice
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Pauline
A History of Britain
Reader
Dirty Tricks
Alison
Oliver Twist
Elizabeth Leeford
Mansfield Park
Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
Expelling the Demon
Woman
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
TC-14 (voice)
An Ideal Husband
Lady Markby
Shooting the Past
Marilyn Truman
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Lady Bellaston
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hippolyta / Titania
City Hall
Sydney Pappas
Jake's Progress
Monica
The Rector's Wife
Anna Bouverie
A Year in Provence
Annie Mayle
Absolutely Fabulous
Jeanne Durand
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Medea
Body Parts
Dr. Agatha Webb
Redemption
Kath Peachey
G.B.H.
Barbara Douglas
The Reflecting Skin
Dolphin Blue
Traffik
Helen Rosshalde
These Foolish Things
Gutrune Day
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Lady Tamplin
The Childeater
Eirwen
Colin's Sandwich
Rosemary
Manifesto
Lily Sachor
The Play on One
Gutrune Day
Prick Up Your Ears
Anthea Lahr
ScreenPlay
Kath Peachey
Dead Head
Dana Cass
Screen Two
Dolphin Blue
Travelling Man
Andrea
Loose Connections
Sally
Rainy Day Women
Karen Miller
The Kit Curran Radio Show
Pamela Scott
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Alexandra
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self (archive footage)
Muck and Brass
Jean Torrode
Grown-Ups
Mrs Butcher
Dick Turpin
Catherine Langford
The New Avengers
Jane
Further Up Pompeii
Scrubba
Playhouse
Christine Butcher
ITV Playhouse
Diane
BBC Play of the Month
Helen Hayle