Lindsay Duncan

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1950-11-07

Place of Birth

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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
2025
The Death of Bunny Munro as Doris Pennington
2024
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus as Dora
2024
Truelove as Phil
2023
Doctor Jekyll as Sandra Poole
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
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
2013
Last Passenger as Elaine Middleton
2013
Le Week-End as Meg Burrows
2013
Lawless as Lady Justice MacNeil
2013
About Time as Mum
2013
Count Arthur Strong as Dame Agnes
2012
Amish: A Secret Life as Narrator (voice)
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
Christopher and His Kind as Kathleen Isherwood
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
2010
Burlesque Fairytales as Ice Queen
2009
Margot as Madam
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
Longford as Lady Elizabeth Longford
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
2003
Working Shakespeare
2002
Spooks as Angela Wells
2002
Hamilton Mattress as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
2001
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders as Narrator
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
Mansfield Park as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
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
1996
City Hall as Sydney Pappas
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
The Reflecting Skin as Dolphin Blue
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
1989
The Childeater as Eirwen
1988
Colin's Sandwich as Rosemary
1988
Manifesto as Lily Sachor
1988
The Play on One as Gutrune Day
1987
Prick Up Your Ears as Anthea Lahr
1986
Dead Head as Dana Cass
1984
Travelling Man as Andrea
1984
Loose Connections as Sally
1984
Rainy Day Women as Karen Miller
1984
The Kit Curran Radio Show as Pamela Scott
1984
Samson and Delilah as Alice
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 Jane
1975
Further Up Pompeii as Scrubba
1974
Playhouse as Christine Butcher
1965
BBC Play of the Month as Helen Hayle
The Entertainment System Is Down
Mint as Ollie
These Foolish Things
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