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.
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All Credits (116)
The Entertainment System Is Down
as Unknown
Mint
as Ollie
H Is for Hawk
as Mum
The Death of Bunny Munro
as Doris Pennington
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
as Dora
Truelove
as Phil
Doctor Jekyll
as Sandra Poole
Call Me Back
as Grace
Last Call
as Kate
Sherwood
as Jennifer Hale
A Banquet
as June
Around the World in 80 Days
as Jane Digby
The Wheel of Time
as Anvaere Damodred
No Ordinary Joe
as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
Made in Italy
as Kate
My Zoe
as Kathy
National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Diana Hesketh
His Dark Materials
as Octavia (voice)
Little Joe
as Psychotherapist
November 1st
as Bonnie
The Morning Show
as Martha Ellison
Blackbird
as Liz
A Discovery of Witches
as Ysabeau de Clermont
Gifted
as Evelyn Adler
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
as Maude
Close to the Enemy
as Frau Bellinghausen
He Does Not Want Peace
as Rachel Englebright
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Helen Kingsleigh
Churchill's Secret
as Clemmie Churchill
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Tabitha
The Honourable Woman
as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
The Leftovers
as Grace Playford
Inside No. 9
as Loretta Lamb
Toast of London
as Unknown
Last Passenger
as Elaine Middleton
Le Week-End
as Meg Burrows
Lawless
as Lady Justice MacNeil
Count Arthur Strong
as Dame Agnes
Amish: A Secret Life
as Narrator (voice)
The Hollow Crown
as Duchess of York
Playhouse Presents
as Mrs Dalloway
White Heat
as Lilly (present day)
Black Mirror
as Alex Cairns
Spy
as The Director
Against the Wall
as Faith Kowalski
Christopher and His Kind
as Kathleen Isherwood
The Sinking of the Laconia
as Elisabeth Fullwood
Mission 2110
as Neuros/Cybele
Alice in Wonderland
as Helen Kingsleigh
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
Burlesque Fairytales
as Ice Queen
Margot
as Madam
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
as Captain Adelaide Brooke
Margaret
as Margaret Thatcher
Merlin
as Queen Annis
Lost in Austen
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Criminal Justice
as Alison Slaughter
Starter for 10
as Rose Harbison
Longford
as Lady Elizabeth Longford
Rome
as Servilia of the Junii
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as Audrey Pretty
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Marina Gregg
Under the Tuscan Sun
as Katherine
AfterLife
as Unknown
Working Shakespeare
as Unknown
Spooks
as Angela Wells
Hamilton Mattress
as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
Perfect Strangers
as Alice
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Pauline
A History of Britain
as Reader
Dirty Tricks
as Alison
Oliver Twist
as Elizabeth Leeford
Mansfield Park
as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
Expelling the Demon
as Woman
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as TC-14 (voice)
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
Shooting the Past
as Marilyn Truman
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Lady Bellaston
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hippolyta / Titania
City Hall
as Sydney Pappas
Jake's Progress
as Monica
The Rector's Wife
as Anna Bouverie
A Year in Provence
as Annie Mayle
Absolutely Fabulous
as Jeanne Durand
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
as Medea
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as Medea
Body Parts
as Dr. Agatha Webb
Redemption
as Kath Peachey
G.B.H.
as Barbara Douglas
The Reflecting Skin
as Dolphin Blue
Traffik
as Helen Rosshalde
These Foolish Things
as Gutrune Day
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Lady Tamplin
The Childeater
as Eirwen
Alas Sage & Onion
as Unknown
Colin's Sandwich
as Rosemary
Manifesto
as Lily Sachor
The Play on One
as Gutrune Day
Prick Up Your Ears
as Anthea Lahr
ScreenPlay
as Kath Peachey
Dead Head
as Dana Cass
Screen Two
as Dolphin Blue
Travelling Man
as Andrea
Loose Connections
as Sally
Rainy Day Women
as Karen Miller
The Kit Curran Radio Show
as Pamela Scott
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Alexandra
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
Muck and Brass
as Jean Torrode
Grown-Ups
as Mrs Butcher
Dick Turpin
as Catherine Langford
The New Avengers
as Jane
Further Up Pompeii
as Scrubba
Playhouse
as Christine Butcher
ITV Playhouse
as Diane
BBC Play of the Month
as Helen Hayle