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Lindsay Duncan
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…
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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.
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2026
Mint
TV show Ollie
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2025
H Is for Hawk
Movie Mum
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2025
The Death of Bunny Munro
TV show Doris Pennington
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2024
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
Movie Dora
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2024
Truelove
TV show Phil
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2023
Doctor Jekyll
Movie Sandra Poole
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2023
Call Me Back
Movie Grace
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2023
Last Call
Movie Kate
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2022
Sherwood
TV show Jennifer Hale
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2022
A Banquet
Movie June
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2021
Around the World in 80 Days
TV show Jane Digby
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2021
The Wheel of Time
TV show Anvaere Damodred
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2021
No Ordinary Joe
Movie Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
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2020
Made in Italy
Movie Kate
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2019
My Zoe
Movie Kathy
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2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard
Movie Diana Hesketh
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2019
His Dark Materials
TV show Octavia (voice)
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2019
The Morning Show
TV show Martha Ellison
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2019
Little Joe
Movie Psychotherapist
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2019
November 1st
Movie Bonnie
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2019
Blackbird
Movie Liz
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2018
A Discovery of Witches
TV show Ysabeau de Clermont
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2017
Gifted
Movie Evelyn Adler
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2017
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Movie Maude
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2016
Close to the Enemy
TV show Frau Bellinghausen
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2016
He Does Not Want Peace
Movie Rachel Englebright
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2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Movie Helen Kingsleigh
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2016
Churchill's Secret
Movie Clemmie Churchill
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2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Movie Tabitha
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2014
The Honourable Woman
TV show Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
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2014
The Leftovers
TV show Grace Playford
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2014
Inside No. 9
TV show Loretta Lamb
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2013
Toast of London
TV show
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2013
Last Passenger
Movie Elaine Middleton
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2013
Le Week-End
Movie Meg Burrows
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2013
Lawless
Movie Lady Justice MacNeil
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2013
About Time
Movie Mum
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2013
Count Arthur Strong
TV show Dame Agnes
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2012
Amish: A Secret Life
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2012
The Hollow Crown
TV show Duchess of York
