Lindsay Duncan

Actor Nov 7 (age 75) Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 1965–2025 (60 year career)

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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

Film

About Time

Mum

Film

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Tabitha

Film

Gifted

Evelyn Adler

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Helen Kingsleigh

Film

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

TC-14 (voice)

Film

Rome

Servilia of the Junii

Film

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Helen Kingsleigh

Film

Under the Tuscan Sun

Katherine

Filmography

Acting (131)

Movies (68)

H Is for Hawk

2025

7.1

National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus

2024

as Dora

Last Call

as Kate

Doctor Jekyll

as Sandra Poole

Call Me Back

as Grace

A Banquet

2022

as June

4.1

No Ordinary Joe

2021

as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs

Made in Italy

as Kate

Blackbird

as Liz

Little Joe

as Psychotherapist

My Zoe

as Kathy

National Theatre Live: Hansard

as Diana Hesketh

November 1st

as Bonnie

Gifted

as Evelyn Adler

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

2017

as Maude

6.4

Alice Through the Looking Glass

as Helen Kingsleigh

Churchill's Secret

as Clemmie Churchill

He Does Not Want Peace

2016

as Rachel Englebright

8.0

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

as Tabitha

About Time

as Mum

Last Passenger

as Elaine Middleton

Lawless

as Lady Justice MacNeil

Le Week-End

as Meg Burrows

Amish: A Secret Life

as Narrator (voice)

Christopher and His Kind

2011

as Kathleen Isherwood

6.3

Alice in Wonderland

2010

as Helen Kingsleigh

6.6

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

2010

as Self

Burlesque Fairytales

as Ice Queen

Margaret

as Margaret Thatcher

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

2009

as Captain Adelaide Brooke

Margot

as Madam

Frankenstein

as Jane Pretorius

Starter for 10

as Rose Harbison

Longford

as Lady Elizabeth Longford

6.5

The Mystery of the Blue Train

2005

as Lady Tamplin

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

as Audrey Pretty

Under the Tuscan Sun

as Katherine

AfterLife

Hamilton Mattress

as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)

6.3

Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders

2001

as Narrator

Dirty Tricks

2000

as Alison

5.3

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

2000

as Pauline

6.5

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

1999

as TC-14 (voice)

6.6

Mansfield Park

1999

as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram

An Ideal Husband

as Lady Markby

Expelling the Demon

as Woman

City Hall

as Sydney Pappas

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1996

as Hippolyta / Titania

5.6

Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair

1995

as Narrator

Redemption

1991

as Kath Peachey

Body Parts

as Dr. Agatha Webb

The Reflecting Skin

as Dolphin Blue

The Childeater

as Eirwen

These Foolish Things

as Gutrune Day

Manifesto

as Lily Sachor

Prick Up Your Ears

as Anthea Lahr

Loose Connections

as Sally

Rainy Day Women

as Karen Miller

Samson and Delilah

1984

as Alice

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

1982

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

On Approval

1982

as Helen

Grown-Ups

1980

as Mrs Butcher

6.7

The Winkler

1979

as Diane

Further Up Pompeii

1975

as Scrubba

7.8

Alma

The Entertainment System Is Down

These Foolish Things

Mint

as Ollie

Television (63)

The Death of Bunny Munro

as Doris Pennington

Truelove

as Phil

Sherwood

as Jennifer Hale

The Wheel of Time

as Anvaere Damodred

Around the World in 80 Days

as Jane Digby

The Morning Show

as Martha Ellison

His Dark Materials

as Octavia (voice)

A Discovery of Witches

2018

as Ysabeau de Clermont

7.8

Close to the Enemy

2016

as Frau Bellinghausen

The Leftovers

as Grace Playford

Inside No. 9

as Loretta Lamb

The Honourable Woman

as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle

Toast of London

Count Arthur Strong

as Dame Agnes

The Hollow Crown

as Duchess of York

Playhouse Presents

as Mrs. Dalloway

White Heat

as Lilly (present day)

Black Mirror

as Alex Cairns

Spy

as The Director

Against the Wall

as Faith Kowalski

The Sinking of the Laconia

2011

as Elisabeth Fullwood

6.4

The Sinking of the Laconia

as Narrator

Sherlock

as Lady Smallwood

Merlin

as Queen Annis

Criminal Justice

as Alison Slaughter

Lost in Austen

as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

7.1

Lost in Austen

2008

as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Doctor Who

as Adelaide Brooke

Rome

as Servilia of the Junii

8.2

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Marina Gregg

Working Shakespeare

Spooks

as Angela Wells

Perfect Strangers

as Alice

A History of Britain

as Reader

Oliver Twist

as Elizabeth Leeford

Shooting the Past

as Marilyn Truman

Get Real

as Louise

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Lady Bellaston

Jake's Progress

as Monica

The Rector's Wife

as Anna Bouverie

A Year in Provence

as Annie Mayle

Absolutely Fabulous

as Jeanne Durand

G.B.H.

as Barbara Douglas

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

as Medea

TECX

as Laura Pellin

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Lady Tamplin

Traffik

as Helen Rosshalde

The Play on One

as Gutrune Day

Colin's Sandwich

as Rosemary

Dead Head

as Dana Cass

Dead Head

as Dana Cass

Travelling Man

as Andrea

Travelling Man

as Andrea

The Kit Curran Radio Show

as Pamela Scott

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Alexandra

Timewatch

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Muck and Brass

as Jean Torrode

Dick Turpin

as Catherine Langford

The New Avengers

as Jane

One-Upmanship

Playhouse

as Christine Butcher

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Helen Hayle

5.0

Mint

as Ollie