Lindsay 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.
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Movies (70)
H Is for Hawk
2025 · Mum
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
2024 · Dora
Doctor Jekyll
2023 · Sandra Poole
Call Me Back
2023 · Grace
Last Call
2023 · Kate
A Banquet
2022 · June
No Ordinary Joe
2021 · Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
Amor a la Italiana
2020 · Kate
Mi Zoe, mi vida
2019 · Kathy
National Theatre Live: Hansard
2019 · Diana Hesketh
Little Joe
2019 · Psychotherapist
November 1st
2019 · Bonnie
La Despedida
2019 · Liz
Un don excepcional
2017 · Evelyn Adler
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017 · Maude
He Does Not Want Peace
2016 · Rachel Englebright
Alicia a través del espejo
2016 · Helen Kingsleigh
Churchill's Secret
2016 · Clemmie Churchill
Birdman o (La inesperada virtud de la ignorancia)
2014 · Tabitha
Last Passenger
2013 · Elaine Middleton
Le Week-End
2013 · Meg Burrows
Lawless
2013 · Lady Justice MacNeil
Cuestión de tiempo
2013 · Mum
Amish: A Secret Life
2012 · Narrator (voice)
Christopher and His Kind
2011 · Kathleen Isherwood
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
2010 · Helen Kingsleigh
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010 · Self
Burlesque Fairytales
2010 · Ice Queen
Margot
2009 · Madam
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
2009 · Captain Adelaide Brooke
Margaret
2009 · Margaret Thatcher
Frankenstein
2007 · Jane Pretorius
Un Chico Listo
2006 · Rose Harbison
Longford
2006 · Lady Elizabeth Longford
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004 · Audrey Pretty
Bajo el sol de Toscana
2003 · Katherine
AfterLife
2003
Hamilton Mattress
2002 · Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
2001 · Narrator
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · Pauline
Dirty Tricks
2000 · Alison
Mansfield Park
1999 · Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
Expelling the Demon
1999 · Woman
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999 · TC-14 (voice)
An Ideal Husband
1999 · Lady Markby
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996 · Hippolyta / Titania
City Hall
1996 · Sydney Pappas
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
1995 · Narrator
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
1991 · Medea
Body Parts
1991 · Dr. Agatha Webb
Redemption
1991 · Kath Peachey
The Reflecting Skin
1990 · Dolphin Blue
These Foolish Things
1989 · Gutrune Day
The Childeater
1989 · Eirwen
Alas Sage & Onion
1988
Manifesto
1988 · Lily Sachor
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · Anthea Lahr
Loose Connections
1984 · Sally
Rainy Day Women
1984 · Karen Miller
Samson and Delilah
1984 · Alice
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982 · Self (archive footage)
On Approval
1982 · Helen
Grown-Ups
1980 · Mrs Butcher
The Winkler
1979 · Diane
Further Up Pompeii
1975 · Scrubba
These Foolish Things
The Entertainment System Is Down
Alma
Daughter of Eden
· Emer
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
· Self
TV shows (62)
Mint
2026 · Ollie
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025 · Doris Pennington
Truelove
2024 · Phil
Sherwood
2022 · Jennifer Hale
La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Días
2021 · Jane Digby
La rueda del tiempo
2021 · Anvaere Damodred
His Dark Materials
2019 · Octavia (voice)
The Morning Show
2019 · Martha Ellison
El descubrimiento de las brujas
2018 · Ysabeau de Clermont
Close to the Enemy
2016 · Frau Bellinghausen
La mujer honorable
2014 · Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
The Leftovers
2014 · Grace Playford
Inside No. 9
2014 · Loretta Lamb
Toast of London
2013
Count Arthur Strong
2013 · Dame Agnes
La Corona Vacía
2012 · Duchess of York
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Mrs Dalloway
White Heat
2012 · Lilly (present day)
Black Mirror
2011 · Alex Cairns
Spy
2011 · The Director
Against the Wall
2011 · Faith Kowalski
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011 · Elisabeth Fullwood
Sherlock
2010 · Lady Smallwood
Mission 2110
2010 · Neuros/Cybele
Merlín
2008 · Queen Annis
Lost in Austen
2008 · Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Criminal Justice
2008 · Alison Slaughter
Roma
2005 · Servilia of the Junii
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Marina Gregg
Working Shakespeare
2003
Spooks
2002 · Angela Wells
Perfect Strangers
2001 · Alice
A History of Britain
2000 · Reader
Oliver Twist
1999 · Elizabeth Leeford
Shooting the Past
1999 · Marilyn Truman
Get Real
1998 · Louise
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997 · Lady Bellaston
Jake's Progress
1995 · Monica
The Rector's Wife
1994 · Anna Bouverie
A Year in Provence
1993 · Annie Mayle
Absolutely Fabulous
1992 · Jeanne Durand
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · Medea
G.B.H.
1991 · Barbara Douglas
TECX
1990 · Laura Pellin
Traffik
1989 · Helen Rosshalde
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Lady Tamplin
Colin's Sandwich
1988 · Rosemary
The Play on One
1988 · Gutrune Day
ScreenPlay
1986 · Kath Peachey
Dead Head
1986 · Dana Cass
Screen Two
1985 · Dolphin Blue
Travelling Man
1984 · Andrea
The Brief
1984 · Carol Barnes
The Kit Curran Radio Show
1984 · Pamela Scott
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · Alexandra
Muck and Brass
1982 · Jean Torrode
Dick Turpin
1979 · Catherine Langford
The New Avengers
1976 · Jane
One-Upmanship
1976
Playhouse
1974 · Christine Butcher
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Diane
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Helen Hayle