Lindsay Duncan

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1950-11-07

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Further Up Pompeii	Scrubba	78
2	1979	The Winkler	Diane	0
3	1980	Grown-Ups	Mrs Butcher	67
4	1982	On Approval	Helen	0
5	1982	Mike Leigh: Making Plays	Self (archive footage)	80
6	1984	Rainy Day Women	Karen Miller	0
7	1984	Loose Connections	Sally	20
8	1987	Prick Up Your Ears	Anthea Lahr	67
9	1988	Manifesto	Lily Sachor	40
10	1989	The Childeater	Eirwen	70
11	1989	These Foolish Things	Gutrune Day	0
12	1990	The Reflecting Skin	Dolphin Blue	67
13	1991	Redemption	Kath Peachey	0
14	1991	Body Parts	Dr. Agatha Webb	58
15	1995	Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair	Narrator	0
16	1996	City Hall	Sydney Pappas	59
17	1996	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Hippolyta / Titania	56
18	1999	An Ideal Husband	Lady Markby	65
19	1999	Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace	TC-14 (voice)	66
20	1999	Expelling the Demon	Woman	70
21	1999	Mansfield Park	Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram	67
22	2000	Dirty Tricks	Alison	57
23	2000	Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings	Pauline	65
24	2001	Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders	Narrator	0
25	2002	Hamilton Mattress	Beryl / Gertrude (voice)	63
26	2003	AfterLife		40
27	2003	Under the Tuscan Sun	Katherine	69
28	2004	The Queen of Sheba's Pearls	Audrey Pretty	56
29	2006	Starter for 10	Rose Harbison	64
30	2006	Longford	Lady Elizabeth Longford	66
31	2007	Frankenstein	Jane Pretorius	52
32	2009	Margaret	Margaret Thatcher	58
33	2009	Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars	Captain Adelaide Brooke	79
34	2009	Margot	Madam	60
35	2010	Burlesque Fairytales	Ice Queen	56
36	2010	Harold Pinter: A Celebration	Self	0
37	2010	Alice in Wonderland	Helen Kingsleigh	66
38	2011	Christopher and His Kind	Kathleen Isherwood	64
39	2012	Amish: A Secret Life	Narrator (voice)	64
40	2013	About Time	Mum	79
41	2013	Lawless	Lady Justice MacNeil	100
42	2013	Le Week-End	Meg Burrows	62
43	2013	Last Passenger	Elaine Middleton	55
44	2014	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Tabitha	75
45	2016	Churchill's Secret	Clemmie Churchill	63
46	2016	Alice Through the Looking Glass	Helen Kingsleigh	66
47	2016	He Does Not Want Peace	Rachel Englebright	80
48	2017	Carnage: Swallowing the Past	Maude	65
49	2017	Gifted	Evelyn Adler	80
50	2019	Blackbird	Liz	68
51	2019	Little Joe	Psychotherapist	57
52	2019	November 1st	Bonnie	69
53	2019	National Theatre Live: Hansard	Diana Hesketh	87
54	2019	My Zoe	Kathy	65
55	2020	Made in Italy	Kate	60
56	2021	No Ordinary Joe	Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs	0
57	2022	A Banquet	June	41
58	2023	Last Call	Kate	80
59	2023	Call Me Back	Grace	0
60	2023	Doctor Jekyll		49
61	2024	National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus	Dora	0
62		These Foolish Things		0
63		The Entertainment System Is Down		0
64		Alma		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Helen Hayle	50
2	1974	Playhouse	Christine Butcher	70
3	1976	The New Avengers		70
4	1979	Dick Turpin	Catherine Langford	73
5	1982	Muck and Brass	Jean Torrode	60
6	1983	Reilly: Ace of Spies	Alexandra	70
7	1984	The Kit Curran Radio Show	Pamela Scott	55
8	1984	Travelling Man	Andrea	50
9	1986	Dead Head	Dana Cass	53
10	1988	The Play on One	Gutrune Day	60
11	1988	Colin's Sandwich	Rosemary	60
12	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Lady Tamplin	82
13	1989	Traffik	Helen Rosshalde	78
14	1990	TECX	Laura Pellin	60
15	1991	G.B.H.	Barbara Douglas	65
16	1991	The Storyteller: Greek Myths	Medea	81
17	1993	A Year in Provence	Annie Mayle	60
18	1994	The Rector's Wife	Anna Bouverie	80
19	1995	Jake's Progress	Monica	35
20	1997	The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling	Lady Bellaston	70
21	1998	Get Real	Louise	0
22	1999	Shooting the Past	Marilyn Truman	68
23	1999	Oliver Twist	Elizabeth Leeford	63
24	2000	A History of Britain	Reader	82
25	2001	Perfect Strangers	Alice	66
26	2002	Spooks	Angela Wells	77
27	2003	Working Shakespeare		0
28	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Marina Gregg	77
29	2005	Rome	Servilia of the Junii	82
30	2008	Criminal Justice	Alison Slaughter	76
31	2008	Lost in Austen	Lady Catherine de Bourgh	71
32	2008	Merlin	Queen Annis	78
33	2010	Sherlock	Lady Smallwood	85
34	2011	The Sinking of the Laconia	Elisabeth Fullwood	63
35	2011	Against the Wall	Faith Kowalski	66
36	2011	Spy	The Director	76
37	2011	Black Mirror	Alex Cairns	83
38	2012	White Heat	Lilly (present day)	57
39	2012	Playhouse Presents	Mrs. Dalloway	60
40	2012	The Hollow Crown	Duchess of York	73
41	2013	Count Arthur Strong	Dame Agnes	69
42	2013	Toast of London		75
43	2014	Inside No. 9	Loretta Lamb	80
44	2014	The Leftovers	Grace Playford	76
45	2014	The Honourable Woman	Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle	73
46	2016	Close to the Enemy	Frau Bellinghausen	53
47	2018	A Discovery of Witches	Ysabeau de Clermont	78
48	2019	The Morning Show	Martha Ellison	78
49	2019	His Dark Materials	Octavia (voice)	79
50	2021	The Wheel of Time	Anvaere Damodred	77
51	2021	Around the World in 80 Days	Jane Digby	73
52	2022	Sherwood	Jennifer Hale	70
53	2024	Truelove	Phil	62
54		The Death of Bunny Munro	Doris Pennington	0
55		Mint	Ollie	0

Lindsay Duncan

Film

Television