Phyllida Law
- Acting
- May 8, 1932 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- July 27, 2026
Biography
Phyllida Law OBE (8 May 1932 — 27th July 2026) was a Scottish actress of screen and stage, and the mother of actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson.
Known for
Filmography
- Then Came You · Arlene
- Bakery in Brooklyn · Baker on the iPad #1
- A Little Chaos · Suzanne
- Three Days in Havana · The Broker
- Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife · Lady Anne Meriot
- Albert Nobbs · Mrs. Cavendish
- Love at First Sight · Ruth
- Ways to Live Forever · Grandmother
- Under the Hammer
- Lecture 21 · Boheme
- Miss Austen Regrets · Mrs. Austen
- The Sarah Jane Adventures · Bea Nelson-Stanley
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show · Self
- The Waiting Room · Helen
- Kingdom · Aunt Auriel
- Mia Sarah · Sarah
- Miss Potter · Mrs. Warne
- Copying Beethoven · Mother Canisius
- Day of Wrath · Esperanza de Mendoza
- Pinochet in Suburbia · Lucia Pinochet
- A Little Trip to Heaven · Head Mistress
- Nanny McPhee · Mrs. Partridge (Voice)
- Afterlife
- Mee-Shee: The Water Giant · Mrs. Coogan
- Unleashed · Distinguished Lady
- Blinded · Bella Black
- Tooth · Mrs. Claus
- I'll Be There · Mrs. Williams
- The Royal · Daisy Crannagh
- Brush with Fate · Maria
- Two Men Went To War · Faith
- Foyle's War · Lady Muriel Sackville
- Timeshift · Self
- The Time Machine · Mrs. Watchett
- The Swap · Rose Trenchard
- Stig of the Dump · Marjorie
- Waking the Dead · Mrs. Carstairs
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid · Signore Reale
- How Proust Can Change Your Life · Virginia Woolf
- Monarch of the Glen · Isobel Hogg
- Saving Grace · Margaret Sutton
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns · Lady Margaret
- Mad Cows · Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)
- The Lost Lover · The Grandmother
- Milk · Veronica
- Judas Kiss · Shouting Woman (uncredited)
- I Want You · Woman at Hairdresser #1
- The Winter Guest · Elspeth
- Anna Karenina · Vronskaya
- Midsomer Murders · Felicity Dinsdale, Mary Bingham
- Emma · Mrs. Bates
- Degrees of Error · Margot
- Hamish Macbeth · Vicky Jeffreys
- Ready, Steady, Cook · Self
- The Blue Boy · Marie's Mother
- Before the Rain · Anne's Mother
- All or Nothing at All · Mrs. Timpson
- Much Ado About Nothing · Ursula
- Peter's Friends · Vera
- Heartbeat · Nancy Bellow
- The House of Eliott · Edith Duglass
- Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again · Annette de Lancel
- About Face
- Chelworth · Olivia Esholt
- Tree of Hands · Julia
- A Bit of Fry & Laurie
- Agatha Christie's Poirot · Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe, Lady Carrington
- Colleagues From Hell
- That's Love
- Clarence · Mrs. Vaile
- Ffizz · Lady Boughton
- Hell's Bells · Edith Makepeace
- Screen Two · Marie's Mother
- The Life and Death of King John · Lady Faulconbridge
- Taggart
- The Barchester Chronicles · Mrs Stanhope
- Fame Is the Spur · Aunt Lizzie
- A Question of Guilt · Mrs Blandy
- Minder · Magistrate
- Tales of the Unexpected · Maggie Patton