Acting
Lindsay Duncan
EN, SV cinema · 70 credits
Born
7 November 1950 (age 75)
Birthplace
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known as Lindsay Vere Duncan
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
Alma
Alma
Actor
Last Call
as Kate
Call Me Back
as Grace
Doctor Jekyll
as Sandra Poole
A Banquet
as June
No Ordinary Joe
as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
Made in Italy
as Kate
My Zoe
as Kathy
Blackbird
as Liz
Little Joe
as Psychotherapist
National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Diana Hesketh
November 1st
as Bonnie
Gifted
as Evelyn Adler
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Helen Kingsleigh
Churchill's Secret
as Clemmie Churchill
He Does Not Want Peace
as Rachel Englebright
Last Passenger
as Elaine Middleton
About Time
as Mum
Le Week-End
as Meg Burrows
Lawless
as Lady Justice MacNeil
Amish: A Secret Life
as Narrator (voice)
Christopher and His Kind
as Kathleen Isherwood
Alice in Wonderland
as Helen Kingsleigh
Burlesque Fairytales
as Ice Queen
Margot
as Madam
Margaret
as Margaret Thatcher
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
as Captain Adelaide Brooke
Frankenstein
as Jane Pretorius
Longford
as Lady Elizabeth Longford
Starter for 10
as Rose Harbison
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as Audrey Pretty
Under the Tuscan Sun
as Katherine
Hamilton Mattress
as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
2001
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
as Narrator
Dirty Tricks
as Alison
Mansfield Park
as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as TC-14 (voice)
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
Expelling the Demon
as Woman
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hippolyta / Titania
City Hall
as Sydney Pappas
Body Parts
as Dr. Agatha Webb
Redemption
as Kath Peachey
The Reflecting Skin
as Dolphin Blue
These Foolish Things
as Gutrune Day
The Childeater
as Eirwen
Manifesto
as Lily Sachor
Prick Up Your Ears
as Anthea Lahr
Loose Connections
as Sally
Rainy Day Women
as Karen Miller
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
Grown-Ups
as Mrs Butcher
Further Up Pompeii
as Scrubba