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Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Birthday: 1950-11-07 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
The Death of Bunny Munro

as    Doris Pennington

2024
Truelove

as    Phil

2023
Call Me Back

as    Grace

2023
Last Call

as    Kate

2022
A Banquet

as    June

2021
My Zoe

as    Kathy

2020
Made in Italy

as    Kate

2019
November 1st

as    Bonnie

2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard

as    Diana Hesketh

2019
Blackbird

as    Liz

2019
Little Joe

as    Psychotherapist

2017
Gifted

as    Evelyn Adler

2017
2016
Churchill's Secret

as    Clemmie Churchill

2016
Close to the Enemy

as    Frau Bellinghausen

2014
The Honourable Woman

as    Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle

2014
Le Week-End

as    Meg Burrows

2013
Last Passenger

as    Elaine Middleton

2013
Lawless

as    Lady Justice MacNeil

2013
About Time

as    Mum

2012
White Heat

as    Lilly (present day)

2012
Amish: A Secret Life

as    Narrator (voice)

2011
The Sinking of the Laconia

as    Elisabeth Fullwood

2011
Christopher and His Kind

as    Kathleen Isherwood