
Lindsay Duncan
Born November 7, 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Alice in Wonderland

About Time

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Gifted

Under the Tuscan Sun

City Hall

Little Joe

Made in Italy

Blackbird

Starter for 10

An Ideal Husband

H Is for Hawk

A Banquet

Mansfield Park

Body Parts

The Entertainment System Is Down

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

The Reflecting Skin

My Zoe

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

Last Passenger

Christopher and His Kind

Le Week-End

Prick Up Your Ears

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Last Call

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

Redemption

Churchill's Secret

AfterLife

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

The Childeater

These Foolish Things

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Manifesto

Dirty Tricks

Longford

National Theatre Live: Hansard

National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Frankenstein

Margaret

Expelling the Demon

Margot

Call Me Back

Loose Connections

Doctor Jekyll

Amish: A Secret Life

Further Up Pompeii

Grown-Ups

Burlesque Fairytales
TV Shows

The Wheel of Time

The Morning Show

The Leftovers

BBC Play of the Month

Merlin

Playhouse

His Dark Materials

Spooks

Inside No. 9

Screen Two

Rome

A Discovery of Witches

Absolutely Fabulous

ITV Playhouse

The Hollow Crown

Playhouse Presents

The Play on One

The New Avengers

Around the World in 80 Days

ScreenPlay

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Sherwood

Dick Turpin

Against the Wall

Oliver Twist

Spy

Toast of London

Travelling Man

Criminal Justice

Close to the Enemy

White Heat

G.B.H.

Working Shakespeare

Mint

Truelove

Lost in Austen

Perfect Strangers

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

A Year in Provence

The Death of Bunny Munro

The Sinking of the Laconia

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

A History of Britain

The Honourable Woman

Traffik

Count Arthur Strong

Colin's Sandwich

Muck and Brass

Jake's Progress

The Kit Curran Radio Show

Dead Head

Shooting the Past










