
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
Credits
- 2024 · National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus as Dora
- 2024 · Truelove as Phil
- 2023 · Doctor Jekyll as
- 2023 · Call Me Back as Grace
- 2023 · Last Call as Kate
- 2022 · Sherwood as Jennifer Hale
- 2022 · A Banquet as June
- 2021 · Around the World in 80 Days as Jane Digby
- 2021 · The Wheel of Time as Anvaere Damodred
- 2021 · No Ordinary Joe as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
- 2020 · Made in Italy as Kate
- 2019 · My Zoe as Kathy
- 2019 · National Theatre Live: Hansard as Diana Hesketh
- 2019 · His Dark Materials as Octavia (voice)
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Martha Ellison
- 2019 · Little Joe as Psychotherapist
- 2019 · November 1st as Bonnie
- 2019 · Blackbird as Liz
- 2018 · A Discovery of Witches as Ysabeau de Clermont
- 2017 · Gifted as Evelyn Adler
- 2017 · Carnage: Swallowing the Past as Maude
- 2016 · Close to the Enemy as Frau Bellinghausen
- 2016 · He Does Not Want Peace as Rachel Englebright
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Helen Kingsleigh
- 2013 · Last Passenger as Elaine Middleton
- 2013 · Lawless as Lady Justice MacNeil
- 2012 · Amish: A Secret Life as Narrator (voice)
- 2011 · Christopher and His Kind as Kathleen Isherwood
- 2010 · Burlesque Fairytales as Ice Queen
- 2009 · Margot as Madam
- 2006 · Longford as Lady Elizabeth Longford
- 2001 · Perfect Strangers as Alice
- 1999 · Mansfield Park as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
- 1996 · City Hall as Sydney Pappas
- Future · Mint as Ollie
- 2016 · Churchill's Secret as Clemmie Churchill
- 2014 · Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Tabitha
- 2014 · The Honourable Woman as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
- 2014 · The Leftovers as Grace Playford
- 2014 · Inside No. 9 as Loretta Lamb
- 2013 · Toast of London as
- 2013 · Le Week-End as Meg Burrows
- 2013 · About Time as Mum
- 2013 · Count Arthur Strong as Dame Agnes
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Duchess of York
- 2012 · Playhouse Presents as Mrs. Dalloway
- 2012 · White Heat as Lilly (present day)
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Alex Cairns
- 2011 · Spy as The Director
- 2011 · Against the Wall as Faith Kowalski
- 2011 · The Sinking of the Laconia as Elisabeth Fullwood
- 2010 · Sherlock as Lady Smallwood
- 2010 · Alice in Wonderland as Helen Kingsleigh
- 2010 · Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
- 2009 · Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars as Captain Adelaide Brooke
- 2009 · Margaret as Margaret Thatcher
- 2008 · Merlin as Queen Annis
- 2008 · Lost in Austen as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- 2008 · Criminal Justice as Alison Slaughter
- 2007 · Frankenstein as Jane Pretorius
- 2006 · Starter for 10 as Rose Harbison
- 2005 · Rome as Servilia of the Junii
- 2004 · The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as Audrey Pretty
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Marina Gregg
- 2003 · Under the Tuscan Sun as Katherine
- 2003 · AfterLife as
- 2003 · Working Shakespeare as
- 2002 · Spooks as Angela Wells
- 2002 · Hamilton Mattress as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
- 2001 · Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders as Narrator
- 2000 · Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Pauline
- 2000 · A History of Britain as Reader
- 2000 · Dirty Tricks as Alison
- 1999 · Oliver Twist as Elizabeth Leeford
- 1999 · Expelling the Demon as Woman
- 1999 · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as TC-14 (voice)
- 1999 · An Ideal Husband as Lady Markby
- 1999 · Shooting the Past as Marilyn Truman
- 1998 · Get Real as Louise
- 1997 · The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Lady Bellaston
- 1996 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hippolyta / Titania
- 1995 · Jake's Progress as Monica
- 1995 · Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair as Narrator
- 1994 · The Rector's Wife as Anna Bouverie
- 1993 · A Year in Provence as Annie Mayle
- 1991 · The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Medea
- 1991 · Body Parts as Dr. Agatha Webb
- 1990 · The Reflecting Skin as Dolphin Blue
- 1989 · The Childeater as Eirwen
- 1988 · Manifesto as Lily Sachor
- 1987 · Prick Up Your Ears as Anthea Lahr
- Future · The Death of Bunny Munro as Doris Pennington
- 1984 · Rainy Day Women as Karen Miller
- Future · The Entertainment System Is Down as
- 1991 · Redemption as Kath Peachey
- 1991 · G.B.H. as Barbara Douglas
- 1990 · TECX as Laura Pellin
- 1989 · Traffik as Helen Rosshalde
- 1989 · These Foolish Things as Gutrune Day
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Lady Tamplin
- 1988 · Colin's Sandwich as Rosemary
- 1988 · The Play on One as Gutrune Day
- 1986 · Dead Head as Dana Cass
- 1984 · Travelling Man as Andrea
- 1984 · Loose Connections as Sally
- 1984 · The Kit Curran Radio Show as Pamela Scott
- 1983 · Reilly: Ace of Spies as Alexandra
- 1982 · Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
- 1982 · On Approval as Helen
- 1982 · Muck and Brass as Jean Torrode
- 1980 · Grown-Ups as Mrs Butcher
- 1979 · The Winkler as Diane
- 1979 · Dick Turpin as Catherine Langford
- 1976 · The New Avengers as
- 1975 · Further Up Pompeii as Scrubba
- 1974 · Playhouse as Christine Butcher
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Helen Hayle
- Future · These Foolish Things as
- Future · Alma as