Lindsay Duncan
- Acting
- November 7, 1950 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Mint · Ollie
- H Is for Hawk · Mum
- The Death of Bunny Munro · Doris Pennington
- National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus · Dora
- Truelove · Phil
- Doctor Jekyll · Sandra Poole
- Call Me Back · Grace
- Last Call · Kate
- Sherwood · Jennifer Hale
- A Banquet · June
- Around the World in 80 Days · Jane Digby
- The Wheel of Time · Anvaere Damodred
- No Ordinary Joe · Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
- Made in Italy · Kate
- My Zoe · Kathy
- National Theatre Live: Hansard · Diana Hesketh
- His Dark Materials · Octavia (Voice)
- Little Joe · Psychotherapist
- November 1st · Bonnie
- The Morning Show · Martha Ellison
- Blackbird · Liz
- A Discovery of Witches · Ysabeau de Clermont
- Gifted · Evelyn Adler
- Carnage: Swallowing the Past · Maude
- Close to the Enemy · Frau Bellinghausen
- He Does Not Want Peace · Rachel Englebright
- Alice Through the Looking Glass · Helen Kingsleigh
- Churchill's Secret · Clemmie Churchill
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) · Tabitha
- The Honourable Woman · Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
- The Leftovers · Grace Playford
- Inside No. 9 · Loretta Lamb
- Toast of London
- Last Passenger · Elaine Middleton
- Le Week-End · Meg Burrows
- Lawless · Lady Justice MacNeil
- Count Arthur Strong · Dame Agnes
- About Time · Mum
- Amish: A Secret Life · Narrator (Voice)
- The Hollow Crown · Duchess of York
- Playhouse Presents · Mrs Dalloway
- White Heat · Lilly (present day)
- Black Mirror · Alex Cairns
- Spy · The Director
- Against the Wall · Faith Kowalski
- Christopher and His Kind · Kathleen Isherwood
- The Sinking of the Laconia · Elisabeth Fullwood
- Sherlock · Lady Smallwood
- Mission 2110 · Neuros/Cybele
- Alice in Wonderland · Helen Kingsleigh
- Harold Pinter: A Celebration · Self
- Burlesque Fairytales · Ice Queen
- Margot · Madam
- Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars · Captain Adelaide Brooke
- Margaret · Margaret Thatcher
- Merlin · Queen Annis
- Lost in Austen · Lady Catherine de Bourgh
- Criminal Justice · Alison Slaughter
- Frankenstein · Jane Pretorius
- Starter for 10 · Rose Harbison
- Longford · Lady Elizabeth Longford
- Rome · Servilia of the Junii
- The Queen of Sheba's Pearls · Audrey Pretty
- Agatha Christie's Marple · Marina Gregg
- Under the Tuscan Sun · Katherine
- AfterLife
- Working Shakespeare
- Spooks · Angela Wells
- Hamilton Mattress · Beryl / Gertrude (Voice)
- Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders · Narrator
- Perfect Strangers · Alice
- Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings · Pauline
- A History of Britain · Reader
- Dirty Tricks · Alison
- Oliver Twist · Elizabeth Leeford
- Mansfield Park · Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
- Expelling the Demon · Woman
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace · TC-14 (Voice)
- An Ideal Husband · Lady Markby
- Shooting the Past · Marilyn Truman