
Lindsay Duncan
Biography
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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Acting History
2025
H Is for Hawk
2025The Death of Bunny Munro as Doris Pennington
2024National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus as Dora
2024Truelove as Phil
2023Doctor Jekyll as Sandra Poole
2023Call Me Back as Grace
2023Last Call as Kate
2022Sherwood as Jennifer Hale
2022A Banquet as June
2021Around the World in 80 Days as Jane Digby
2021The Wheel of Time as Anvaere Damodred
2021No Ordinary Joe as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
2020Made in Italy as Kate
2019My Zoe as Kathy
2019National Theatre Live: Hansard as Diana Hesketh
2019His Dark Materials as Octavia (voice)
2019The Morning Show as Martha Ellison
2019Little Joe as Psychotherapist
2019November 1st as Bonnie
2019Blackbird as Liz
2018A Discovery of Witches as Ysabeau de Clermont
2017Gifted as Evelyn Adler
2017Carnage: Swallowing the Past as Maude
2016Close to the Enemy as Frau Bellinghausen
2016He Does Not Want Peace as Rachel Englebright
2016Alice Through the Looking Glass as Helen Kingsleigh
2016Churchill's Secret as Clemmie Churchill
2014Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Tabitha
2014The Honourable Woman as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
2014The Leftovers as Grace Playford
2014Inside No. 9 as Loretta Lamb
2013Toast of London
2013Last Passenger as Elaine Middleton
2013Le Week-End as Meg Burrows
2013Lawless as Lady Justice MacNeil
2013About Time as Mum
2013Count Arthur Strong as Dame Agnes
2012Amish: A Secret Life as Narrator (voice)
2012The Hollow Crown as Duchess of York
2012Playhouse Presents as Mrs. Dalloway
2012White Heat as Lilly (present day)
2011Black Mirror as Alex Cairns
2011Spy as The Director
2011Against the Wall as Faith Kowalski
2011Christopher and His Kind as Kathleen Isherwood
2011The Sinking of the Laconia as Elisabeth Fullwood
2010Sherlock as Lady Smallwood
2010Alice in Wonderland as Helen Kingsleigh
2010Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
2010Burlesque Fairytales as Ice Queen
2009Margot as Madam
2009Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars as Captain Adelaide Brooke
2009Margaret as Margaret Thatcher
2008Merlin as Queen Annis
2008Lost in Austen as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
2008Criminal Justice as Alison Slaughter
2007Frankenstein as Jane Pretorius
2006Longford as Lady Elizabeth Longford
2006Starter for 10 as Rose Harbison
2005Rome as Servilia of the Junii
2004The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as Audrey Pretty
2004Agatha Christie's Marple as Marina Gregg
2003Under the Tuscan Sun as Katherine
2003AfterLife
2003Working Shakespeare
2002Spooks as Angela Wells
2002Hamilton Mattress as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
2001Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders as Narrator
2001Perfect Strangers as Alice
2000Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Pauline
2000A History of Britain as Reader
2000Dirty Tricks as Alison
1999Oliver Twist as Elizabeth Leeford
1999Mansfield Park as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
1999Expelling the Demon as Woman
1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as TC-14 (voice)
1999An Ideal Husband as Lady Markby
1999Shooting the Past as Marilyn Truman
1998Get Real as Louise
1997The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Lady Bellaston
1996A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hippolyta / Titania
1996City Hall as Sydney Pappas
1995Jake's Progress as Monica
1995Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair as Narrator
1994The Rector's Wife as Anna Bouverie
1993A Year in Provence as Annie Mayle
1991The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Medea
1991Body Parts as Dr. Agatha Webb
1991Redemption as Kath Peachey
1991G.B.H. as Barbara Douglas
1990The Reflecting Skin as Dolphin Blue
1990TECX as Laura Pellin
1989Traffik as Helen Rosshalde
1989These Foolish Things as Gutrune Day
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot as Lady Tamplin
1989The Childeater as Eirwen
1988Colin's Sandwich as Rosemary
1988Manifesto as Lily Sachor
1988The Play on One as Gutrune Day
1987Prick Up Your Ears as Anthea Lahr
1986Dead Head as Dana Cass
1984Travelling Man as Andrea
1984Loose Connections as Sally
1984Rainy Day Women as Karen Miller
1984The Kit Curran Radio Show as Pamela Scott
1984Samson and Delilah as Alice
1983Reilly: Ace of Spies as Alexandra
1982Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
1982On Approval as Helen
1982Muck and Brass as Jean Torrode
1980Grown-Ups as Mrs Butcher
1979The Winkler as Diane
1979Dick Turpin as Catherine Langford
1976The New Avengers as Jane
1975Further Up Pompeii as Scrubba
1974Playhouse as Christine Butcher
1965BBC Play of the Month as Helen Hayle
—The Entertainment System Is Down
—Mint as Ollie
—These Foolish Things
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