Lindsay Duncan

Known for ActingBorn 1950-11-07 (age 75)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Lawless

Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders

The Rector's Wife

National Theatre Live: Hansard

On Approval

Sherlock

Black Mirror

A History of Britain

Rome

Last Call

Inside No. 9

Gifted

He Does Not Want Peace

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Agatha Christie's Poirot

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

About Time

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

A Discovery of Witches

His Dark Materials

Merlin

The Morning Show

Agatha Christie's Marple

The Leftovers

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

The Wheel of Time

Spooks

Criminal Justice

Spy

Toast of London

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

The Childeater

The Hollow Crown

Absolutely Fabulous

Around the World in 80 Days

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

Traffik

The Honourable Woman

One-Upmanship

H Is for Hawk

Further Up Pompeii

Shooting the Past

Colin's Sandwich

Dick Turpin

Lost in Austen

Count Arthur Strong

Sherwood

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