Actor
Lindsay Duncan
Born 7 November 1950 · 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.
Films and shows
- 2026
Mint1 seasonOllie - 2025
H Is for Hawk2hMum - 2025
The Death of Bunny Munro1 seasonDoris Pennington - 2024
Truelove1 seasonPhil - 2024
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus2h 31mDora - 2023
Call Me Back15mGrace - 2023
Doctor Jekyll1h 29mSandra Poole - 2023
Last Call19mKate - 2022
A Banquet1h 37mJune - 2021
No Ordinary Joe15mMarion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs - 2020
Made in Italy1h 34mKate - 2019
November 1st25mBonnie - 2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard1h 34mDiana Hesketh - 2019
Blackbird1h 38mLiz - 2019
My Zoe1h 40mKathy - 2019
Little Joe1h 46mPsychotherapist - 2017
Gifted1h 41mEvelyn Adler - 2017
Carnage: Swallowing the Past1h 5mMaude - 2016
He Does Not Want Peace30mRachel Englebright - 2016
Churchill's Secret1h 41mClemmie Churchill - 2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass1h 53mHelen Kingsleigh - 2014
The Honourable Woman1 seasonAnjelica Hayden-Hoyle - 2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2hTabitha - 2013
Lawless45mLady Justice MacNeil - 2013
Le Week-End1h 33mMeg Burrows - 2013
Last Passenger1h 36mElaine Middleton - 2013
About Time2h 3mMum - 2012
Amish: A Secret Life1hNarrator (voice) - 2012
White Heat1 seasonLilly (present day) - 2011
Christopher and His Kind1h 30mKathleen Isherwood - 2011
The Sinking of the Laconia1 seasonElisabeth Fullwood - 2010
Burlesque Fairytales1h 23mIce Queen - 2010
Mission 21102 seasonsNeuros/Cybele - 2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration1h 35mSelf - 2010
Alice in Wonderland1h 48mHelen Kingsleigh - 2009
Margaret1h 53mMargaret Thatcher - 2009
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars1h 2mCaptain Adelaide Brooke - 2009
Margot1h 25mMadam - 2007
Frankenstein1h 30mJane Pretorius - 2006
Longford1h 28mLady Elizabeth Longford - 2006
Starter for 101h 36mRose Harbison - 2005
Rome2 seasonsServilia of the Junii - 2004
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls2h 3mAudrey Pretty - 2003
Under the Tuscan Sun1h 53mKatherine - 2003
Working Shakespeare1 season - 2003
AfterLife1h 40m - 2002
Hamilton Mattress31mBeryl / Gertrude (voice) - 2001Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders50mNarrator
- 2001
Perfect Strangers1 seasonAlice - 2000
A History of Britain3 seasonsReader - 2000
Dirty Tricks2h 42mAlison - 2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings50mPauline - 1999
Expelling the Demon5mWoman - 1999
Shooting the Past1 seasonMarilyn Truman - 1999
Mansfield Park1h 52mMrs. Price / Lady Bertram - 1999
Oliver Twist1 seasonElizabeth Leeford - 1999
An Ideal Husband1h 37mLady Markby - 1998Get Real1 seasonLouise
- 1996
A Midsummer Night's Dream1h 45mHippolyta / Titania - 1996
City Hall1h 51mSydney Pappas - 1995Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair59mNarrator
- 1995
Jake's Progress1 seasonMonica - 1994
The Rector's Wife1 seasonAnna Bouverie - 1993
A Year in Provence1 seasonAnnie Mayle - 1991
Body Parts1h 28mDr. Agatha Webb - 1991
Redemption1h 30mKath Peachey - 1991
G.B.H.1 seasonBarbara Douglas - 1991
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur24mMedea - 1990
The Reflecting Skin1h 35mDolphin Blue - 1989
These Foolish ThingsGutrune Day - 1989
Traffik1 seasonHelen Rosshalde - 1989
The Childeater13mEirwen - 1988
Manifesto1h 36mLily Sachor - 1988
Alas Sage & Onion40m - 1988
Colin's Sandwich2 seasonsRosemary - 1987
Prick Up Your Ears1h 51mAnthea Lahr - 1984
Loose Connections1h 36mSally - 1984Samson and Delilah24mAlice
- 1984
The Kit Curran Radio Show2 seasonsPamela Scott - 1984
Rainy Day Women1h 15mKaren Miller - 1982On Approval2hHelen
- 1982
Muck and Brass1 seasonJean Torrode - 1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays1h 20mSelf (archive footage) - 1980
Grown-Ups1h 33mMrs Butcher - 1979The WinklerDiane
- 1975
Further Up Pompeii44mScrubba - Daughter of EdenEmer
- RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare7h 29mSelf
- Alma
The Entertainment System Is Down- These Foolish Things18m
