Lindsay Duncan
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Acting Credits
Biography
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 T...
Known For
Filmography
Mint
2026
as Ollie
H Is for Hawk
2025
as Mum
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
as Doris Pennington
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
2024
as Dora
Truelove
2024
as Phil
Last Call
2023
as Kate
Call Me Back
2023
as Grace
Doctor Jekyll
2023
as Sandra Poole
A Banquet
2022
as June
Sherwood
2022
as Jennifer Hale
No Ordinary Joe
2021
as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
Around the World in 80 Days
2021
as Jane Digby
The Wheel of Time
2021
as Anvaere Damodred
Made in Italy
2020
as Kate
My Zoe
2019
as Kathy
Blackbird
2019
as Liz
Little Joe
2019
as Psychotherapist
National Theatre Live: Hansard
2019
as Diana Hesketh
November 1st
2019
as Bonnie
The Morning Show
2019
as Martha Ellison
His Dark Materials
2019
as Octavia (voice)
A Discovery of Witches
2018
as Ysabeau de Clermont
Gifted
2017
as Evelyn Adler
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017
as Maude
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016
as Helen Kingsleigh
Churchill's Secret
2016
as Clemmie Churchill
He Does Not Want Peace
2016
as Rachel Englebright
Close to the Enemy
2016
as Frau Bellinghausen
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014
as Tabitha
Inside No. 9
2014
as Loretta Lamb
The Honourable Woman
2014
as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
The Leftovers
2014
as Grace Playford
Last Passenger
2013
as Elaine Middleton
About Time
2013
as Mum
Le Week-End
2013
as Meg Burrows
Lawless
2013
as Lady Justice MacNeil
Count Arthur Strong
2013
as Dame Agnes
Toast of London
2013
Amish: A Secret Life
2012
as Narrator (voice)
White Heat
2012
as Lilly (present day)
The Hollow Crown
2012
as Duchess of York
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Mrs Dalloway
Christopher and His Kind
2011
as Kathleen Isherwood
Spy
2011
as The Director
Black Mirror
2011
as Alex Cairns
Against the Wall
2011
as Faith Kowalski
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011
as Elisabeth Fullwood
Alice in Wonderland
2010
as Helen Kingsleigh
Burlesque Fairytales
2010
as Ice Queen
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
as Self
Sherlock
2010
as Lady Smallwood
Margot
2009
as Madam
Margaret
2009
as Margaret Thatcher
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
2009
as Captain Adelaide Brooke
Criminal Justice
2008
as Alison Slaughter
Merlin
2008
as Queen Annis
Lost in Austen
2008
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Frankenstein
2007
as Jane Pretorius
Longford
2006
as Lady Elizabeth Longford
Starter for 10
2006
as Rose Harbison
Rome
2005
as Servilia of the Junii
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
as Audrey Pretty
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Marina Gregg
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
as Katherine
AfterLife
2003
Working Shakespeare
2003
Hamilton Mattress
2002
as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
Spooks
2002
as Angela Wells
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
2001
as Narrator
Perfect Strangers
2001
as Alice
Dirty Tricks
2000
as Alison
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
as Pauline
A History of Britain
2000
as Reader
Mansfield Park
1999
as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
as TC-14 (voice)
An Ideal Husband
1999
as Lady Markby
Expelling the Demon
1999
as Woman
Oliver Twist
1999
as Elizabeth Leeford
Shooting the Past
1999
as Marilyn Truman
Get Real
1998
as Louise
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997
as Lady Bellaston
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996
as Hippolyta / Titania
City Hall
1996
as Sydney Pappas
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
1995
as Narrator
Jake's Progress
1995
as Monica
The Rector's Wife
1994
as Anna Bouverie
A Year in Provence
1993
as Annie Mayle
Absolutely Fabulous
1992
as Jeanne Durand
Body Parts
1991
as Dr. Agatha Webb
Redemption
1991
as Kath Peachey
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
1991
as Medea
G.B.H.
1991
as Barbara Douglas
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
as Medea
The Reflecting Skin
1990
as Dolphin Blue
TECX
1990
as Laura Pellin
These Foolish Things
1989
as Gutrune Day
The Childeater
1989
as Eirwen
Traffik
1989
as Helen Rosshalde
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Lady Tamplin
Manifesto
1988
as Lily Sachor
Alas Sage & Onion
1988
Colin's Sandwich
1988
as Rosemary
The Play on One
1988
as Gutrune Day
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as Anthea Lahr
Dead Head
1986
as Dana Cass
ScreenPlay
1986
as Kath Peachey
Screen Two
1985
as Dolphin Blue
Loose Connections
1984
as Sally
Rainy Day Women
1984
as Karen Miller
Samson and Delilah
1984
as Alice
The Kit Curran Radio Show
1984
as Pamela Scott
Travelling Man
1984
as Andrea
The Brief
1984
as Carol Barnes
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
as Alexandra
On Approval
1982
as Helen
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self (archive footage)
Muck and Brass
1982
as Jean Torrode
Grown-Ups
1980
as Mrs Butcher
The Winkler
1979
as Diane
Dick Turpin
1979
as Catherine Langford
The New Avengers
1976
as Jane
One-Upmanship
1976
Further Up Pompeii
1975
as Scrubba
Playhouse
1974
as Christine Butcher
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Diane
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Helen Hayle