
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
- 2023 · Doctor Jekyll as Sandra Poole
- 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
- 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 · Blackbird as Liz
- 2018 · A Discovery of Witches as Ysabeau de Clermont
- 2017 · Gifted as Evelyn Adler
- 2016 · Alice Through the Looking Glass as Helen Kingsleigh
- 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 · Last Passenger as Elaine Middleton
- 2013 · Lawless as Lady Justice MacNeil
- 2013 · About Time as Mum
- 2012 · The Hollow Crown as Duchess of York
- 2012 · Playhouse Presents as Mrs. Dalloway
- 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
- 2009 · Margot as Madam
- 2009 · Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars as Captain Adelaide Brooke
- 2008 · Merlin as Queen Annis
- 2008 · Lost in Austen as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- 2006 · Starter for 10 as Rose Harbison
- 2005 · Rome as Servilia of the Junii
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Marina Gregg
- 2003 · Under the Tuscan Sun as Katherine
- 2002 · Spooks as Angela Wells
- 2002 · Hamilton Mattress as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
- 2001 · Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders as Narrator
- 1999 · Mansfield Park as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
- 1999 · Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as TC-14 (voice)
- 1999 · An Ideal Husband as Lady Markby
- 1996 · City Hall as Sydney Pappas
- 1990 · The Reflecting Skin as Dolphin Blue
- 1989 · Agatha Christie's Poirot as Lady Tamplin
- 1988 · Manifesto as Lily Sachor
- 1988 · The Play on One as Gutrune Day
- 1987 · Prick Up Your Ears as Anthea Lahr
- 1984 · Rainy Day Women as Karen Miller
- 1983 · Reilly: Ace of Spies as Alexandra
- 1980 · Grown-Ups as Mrs Butcher
- 1979 · Dick Turpin as Catherine Langford
- 1976 · The New Avengers as
- 1974 · Playhouse as Christine Butcher
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Helen Hayle
- Future · Alma as
- 2025 · The Death of Bunny Munro as Doris Pennington
- 2025 · H Is for Hawk as
- 2024 · Truelove as Phil
- 2023 · Call Me Back as Grace
- 2023 · Last Call as Kate
- 2021 · No Ordinary Joe as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
- 2019 · November 1st as Bonnie
- 2017 · Carnage: Swallowing the Past as Maude
- 2016 · Close to the Enemy as Frau Bellinghausen
- 2016 · He Does Not Want Peace as Rachel Englebright
- 2013 · Le Week-End as Meg Burrows
- 2013 · Count Arthur Strong as Dame Agnes
- 2012 · Amish: A Secret Life as Narrator (voice)
- 2012 · White Heat as Lilly (present day)
- 2011 · Christopher and His Kind as Kathleen Isherwood
- 2010 · Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
- 2010 · Burlesque Fairytales as Ice Queen
- 2009 · Margaret as Margaret Thatcher
- 2008 · Criminal Justice as Alison Slaughter
- 2008 · Criminal Justice as Alison Slaughter
- 2007 · Frankenstein as Jane Pretorius
- 2006 · Longford as Lady Elizabeth Longford
- 2004 · The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as Audrey Pretty
- 2003 · AfterLife as
- 2003 · Working Shakespeare as
- 2001 · Perfect Strangers as Alice
- 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 · 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
- 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 · The Childeater as Eirwen
- 1984 · Travelling Man as Andrea
- 1984 · Loose Connections as Sally
- 1982 · Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
- Future · The Entertainment System Is Down as
- 1988 · Colin's Sandwich as Rosemary
- 1986 · Dead Head as Dana Cass
- 1982 · Muck and Brass as Jean Torrode
- 1979 · The Winkler as Diane
- Future · Mint as Ollie
- 1984 · The Kit Curran Radio Show as Pamela Scott
- 1982 · On Approval as Helen
- 1975 · Further Up Pompeii as Scrubba
- Future · These Foolish Things as