Lindsay Duncan
Born: 1950-11-07 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Mint as Ollie
2025
- H Is for Hawk as Mum
- The Death of Bunny Munro as Doris Pennington
2024
- Truelove as Phil
- National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus as Dora
2023
- Last Call as Kate
- Doctor Jekyll as Sandra Poole
- Call Me Back as Grace
2021
- The Wheel of Time as Anvaere Damodred
- Around the World in 80 Days as Jane Digby
- No Ordinary Joe as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
2020
- Made in Italy as Kate
2019
- The Morning Show as Martha Ellison
- His Dark Materials as Octavia (voice)
- Blackbird as Liz
- Little Joe as Psychotherapist
- My Zoe as Kathy
- November 1st as Bonnie
- National Theatre Live: Hansard as Diana Hesketh
2018
- A Discovery of Witches as Ysabeau de Clermont
2017
- Gifted as Evelyn Adler
- Carnage: Swallowing the Past as Maude
2016
- Alice Through the Looking Glass as Helen Kingsleigh
- Close to the Enemy as Frau Bellinghausen
- Churchill's Secret as Clemmie Churchill
- He Does Not Want Peace as Rachel Englebright
2014
- The Leftovers as Grace Playford
- Inside No. 9 as Loretta Lamb
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Tabitha
- The Honourable Woman as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
- 神探夏洛克：最后的誓言
2013
- About Time as Mum
- Toast of London
- Count Arthur Strong as Dame Agnes
- Last Passenger as Elaine Middleton
- Le Week-End as Meg Burrows
- Lawless as Lady Justice MacNeil
2012
- The Hollow Crown as Duchess of York
- Playhouse Presents as Mrs Dalloway
- White Heat as Lilly (present day)
- Amish: A Secret Life as Narrator (voice)
2011
- Black Mirror as Alex Cairns
- Against the Wall as Faith Kowalski
- Spy as The Director
- The Sinking of the Laconia as Elisabeth Fullwood
- Christopher and His Kind as Kathleen Isherwood
2010
- Sherlock as Lady Smallwood
- Alice in Wonderland as Helen Kingsleigh
- Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self
- Burlesque Fairytales as Ice Queen
2009
- Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars as Captain Adelaide Brooke
- Margot as Madam
- Margaret as Margaret Thatcher
2008
- Merlin as Queen Annis
- Criminal Justice as Alison Slaughter
- Lost in Austen as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
2007
- Frankenstein as Jane Pretorius
2006
- Starter for 10 as Rose Harbison
- Longford as Lady Elizabeth Longford
2005
- Rome as Servilia of the Junii
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Marina Gregg
- The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as Audrey Pretty
2003
- Under the Tuscan Sun as Katherine
- Working Shakespeare
- AfterLife
2002
- Spooks as Angela Wells
- Hamilton Mattress as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
2001
- Perfect Strangers as Alice
- Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders as Narrator
2000
- A History of Britain as Reader
- Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings as Pauline
- Dirty Tricks as Alison
1999
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as TC-14 (voice)
- Oliver Twist as Elizabeth Leeford
- Mansfield Park as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
- An Ideal Husband as Lady Markby
- Shooting the Past as Marilyn Truman
- Expelling the Demon as Woman
1998
- Get Real as Louise
1997
- The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Lady Bellaston
1996
- City Hall as Sydney Pappas
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hippolyta / Titania
1995
- Jake's Progress as Monica
- Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair as Narrator
1994
- The Rector's Wife as Anna Bouverie
1993
- A Year in Provence as Annie Mayle
1992
- Absolutely Fabulous as Jeanne Durand
1991
- The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Medea
- G.B.H. as Barbara Douglas
- Body Parts as Dr. Agatha Webb
- Redemption as Kath Peachey
1990
- The Reflecting Skin as Dolphin Blue
- TECX as Laura Pellin
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Lady Tamplin
- Traffik as Helen Rosshalde
- These Foolish Things as Gutrune Day
- The Childeater as Eirwen
1988
- The Play on One as Gutrune Day
- Colin's Sandwich as Rosemary
- Manifesto as Lily Sachor
1987
- Prick Up Your Ears as Anthea Lahr
1986
- Dead Head as Dana Cass
1984
- Travelling Man as Andrea
- The Kit Curran Radio Show as Pamela Scott
- Loose Connections as Sally
- Samson and Delilah as Alice
- Rainy Day Women as Karen Miller
1983
- Reilly: Ace of Spies as Alexandra
1982
- Muck and Brass as Jean Torrode
- Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
- On Approval as Helen
1980
- Grown-Ups as Mrs Butcher
1979
- Dick Turpin as Catherine Langford
- The Winkler as Diane
1976
- The New Avengers as Jane
- One-Upmanship
1975
- Further Up Pompeii as Scrubba
1974
- Playhouse as Christine Butcher
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Diane
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Helen Hayle