Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan (74)

1950-11-07 | 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.

On Movies

  • National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
  • Doctor Jekyll
  • Call Me Back
  • Last Call
  • A Banquet
  • No Ordinary Joe
  • Made in Italy
  • My Zoe
  • Little Joe
  • November 1st
  • Blackbird
  • Gifted
  • Carnage: Swallowing the Past
  • He Does Not Want Peace
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass
  • Churchill's Secret
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • Last Passenger
  • Le Week-End
  • Lawless
  • About Time
  • Christopher and His Kind
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • Burlesque Fairytales
  • Margot
  • Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
  • Margaret
  • Frankenstein
  • Longford
  • Starter for 10
  • The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
  • Under the Tuscan Sun
  • AfterLife
  • Hamilton Mattress
  • Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
  • Dirty Tricks
  • Mansfield Park
  • Expelling the Demon
  • Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
  • An Ideal Husband
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • City Hall
  • Body Parts
  • Redemption
  • The Reflecting Skin
  • These Foolish Things
  • The Childeater
  • Manifesto
  • Prick Up Your Ears
  • Loose Connections
  • Rainy Day Women
  • On Approval
  • Grown-Ups
  • Further Up Pompeii

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