Lindsay Duncan
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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.
Known for
Credits
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
as Helen Kingsleigh
About Time (2013)
as Mum
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
as Tabitha
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
as TC-14 (voice)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
as Helen Kingsleigh
Gifted (2017)
as Evelyn Adler
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
as Katherine
Blackbird (2019)
as Liz
Made in Italy (2020)
as Kate
H Is for Hawk (2025)
as Mum
City Hall (1996)
as Sydney Pappas
Starter for 10 (2006)
as Rose Harbison
An Ideal Husband (1999)
as Lady Markby
Little Joe (2019)
as Psychotherapist
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
as Anthea Lahr
Mansfield Park (1999)
as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
The Entertainment System Is Down (—)
Actor
Body Parts (1991)
as Dr. Agatha Webb
My Zoe (2019)
as Kathy
Christopher and His Kind (2011)
as Kathleen Isherwood
A Banquet (2022)
as June
Carnage: Swallowing the Past (2017)
as Maude
Doctor Jekyll (2023)
as Sandra Poole
The Reflecting Skin (1990)
as Dolphin Blue
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars (2009)
as Captain Adelaide Brooke
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
as Hippolyta / Titania
The Childeater (1989)
as Eirwen
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur (1991)
as Medea
Last Passenger (2013)
as Elaine Middleton
Mike Leigh: Making Plays (1982)
as Self (archive footage)
Harold Pinter: A Celebration (2010)
as Self
Le Week-End (2013)
as Meg Burrows
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare (—)
as Self
Redemption (1991)
as Kath Peachey
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004)
as Audrey Pretty
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
as Pauline
Churchill's Secret (2016)
as Clemmie Churchill
National Theatre Live: Hansard (2019)
as Diana Hesketh
AfterLife (2003)
Actor
He Does Not Want Peace (2016)
as Rachel Englebright
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus (2024)
as Dora
Amish: A Secret Life (2012)
as Narrator (voice)
Rainy Day Women (1984)
as Karen Miller
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders (2001)
as Narrator
Further Up Pompeii (1975)
as Scrubba
Manifesto (1988)
as Lily Sachor
Longford (2006)
as Lady Elizabeth Longford
Burlesque Fairytales (2010)
as Ice Queen
Dirty Tricks (2000)
as Alison
Grown-Ups (1980)
as Mrs Butcher
Samson and Delilah (1984)
as Alice
Frankenstein (2007)
as Jane Pretorius
Hamilton Mattress (2002)
as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
Expelling the Demon (1999)
as Woman
Margot (2009)
as Madam
Loose Connections (1984)
as Sally
Margaret (2009)
as Margaret Thatcher
Call Me Back (2023)
as Grace
These Foolish Things (1989)
as Gutrune Day
Last Call (2023)
as Kate
Daughter of Eden (—)
as Emer
On Approval (1982)
as Helen
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair (1995)
as Narrator
No Ordinary Joe (2021)
as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
Lawless (2013)
as Lady Justice MacNeil
November 1st (2019)
as Bonnie
Alma (—)
Actor
Alas Sage & Onion (1988)
Actor
The Winkler (1979)
as Diane
These Foolish Things (—)
Actor