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Lindsay Duncan

Born 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.

Filmography 115

Mint
as Ollie
2026
H Is for Hawk
as Mum
2025
The Death of Bunny Munro
as Doris Pennington
2025
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
as Dora
2024
Truelove
as Phil
2024
Doctor Jekyll
as Sandra Poole
2023
Call Me Back
as Grace
2023
Last Call
as Kate
2023
Sherwood
as Jennifer Hale
2022
A Banquet
as June
2022
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
2021
Made in Italy
as Kate
2020
My Zoe
as Kathy
2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Diana Hesketh
2019
His Dark Materials
as Octavia (voice)
2019
Little Joe
as Psychotherapist
2019
November 1st
as Bonnie
2019
The Morning Show
as Martha Ellison
2019
Blackbird
as Liz
2019
A Discovery of Witches
as Ysabeau de Clermont
2018
Gifted
as Evelyn Adler
2017
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
as Maude
2017
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
2016
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
2014
神探夏洛克:最后的誓言
2014
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
2013
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)
2012
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
2011
Sherlock
as Lady Smallwood
2010
Alice in Wonderland
as Helen Kingsleigh
2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
2010
Burlesque Fairytales
as Ice Queen
2010
Margot
as Madam
2009
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
as Captain Adelaide Brooke
2009
Margaret
as Margaret Thatcher
2009
Merlin
as Queen Annis
2008
Lost in Austen
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
2008
Criminal Justice
as Alison Slaughter
2008
Frankenstein
as Jane Pretorius
2007
Longford
as Lady Elizabeth Longford
2006
Starter for 10
as Rose Harbison
2006
Rome
as Servilia of the Junii
2005
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as Audrey Pretty
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Marina Gregg
2004
Under the Tuscan Sun
as Katherine
2003
AfterLife
2003
Working Shakespeare
2003
Spooks
as Angela Wells
2002
Hamilton Mattress
as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
2002
Perfect Strangers
as Alice
2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Pauline
2000
A History of Britain
as Reader
2000
Dirty Tricks
as Alison
2000
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
1999
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Lady Bellaston
1997
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hippolyta / Titania
1996
City Hall
as Sydney Pappas
1996
Jake's Progress
as Monica
1995
The Rector's Wife
as Anna Bouverie
1994
A Year in Provence
as Annie Mayle
1993
Absolutely Fabulous
as Jeanne Durand
1992
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
1991
The Reflecting Skin
as Dolphin Blue
1990
Traffik
as Helen Rosshalde
1989
These Foolish Things
as Gutrune Day
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Lady Tamplin
1989
The Childeater
as Eirwen
1989
Colin's Sandwich
as Rosemary
1988
Manifesto
as Lily Sachor
1988
The Play on One
as Gutrune Day
1988
Prick Up Your Ears
as Anthea Lahr
1987
Dead Head
as Dana Cass
1986
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
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Alexandra
1983
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
1982
Muck and Brass
as Jean Torrode
1982
Grown-Ups
as Mrs Butcher
1980
Dick Turpin
as Catherine Langford
1979
The New Avengers
as Jane
1976
Further Up Pompeii
as Scrubba
1975
Playhouse
as Christine Butcher
1974
ITV Playhouse
as Diane
1967
BBC Play of the Month
as Helen Hayle
1965
The Entertainment System Is Down