Phyllida Law

Actor 1951–2020 (69 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Highest Rated

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · as Maria

8.6

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 · as Lady Carrington

8.2

All or Nothing at All

1993 · as Mrs. Timpson

8.0

Known For

Film

Nanny McPhee

Mrs. Partridge (voice)

Film

Unleashed

Distinguished Lady

Film

The Time Machine

Mrs. Watchett

Film

Much Ado About Nothing

Ursula

Film

Emma

Mrs. Bates

Film

Miss Potter

Mrs. Warne

Film

A Little Chaos

Suzanne

Film

Saving Grace

Margaret Sutton

Filmography

Acting (93)

Movies (48)

Then Came You

2020

as Arlene

6.0

Bakery in Brooklyn

2016

as Baker on the iPad #1

A Little Chaos

as Suzanne

Three Days in Havana

as The Broker

Albert Nobbs

as Mrs. Cavendish

Ways to Live Forever

as Grandmother

Love at First Sight

as Ruth

Miss Austen Regrets

as Mrs. Austen

Lecture 21

as Boheme

The Waiting Room

as Helen

Copying Beethoven

as Mother Canisius

Pinochet in Suburbia

as Lucia Pinochet

Miss Potter

as Mrs. Warne

Day of Wrath

as Esperanza de Mendoza

Mia Sarah

as Sarah

Nanny McPhee

as Mrs. Partridge (voice)

6.7

Unleashed

2005

as Distinguished Lady

6.9

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

2005

as Mrs. Coogan

5.3

A Little Trip to Heaven

as Head Mistress

Tooth

as Mrs. Claus

Blinded

as Bella Black

Brush with Fate

as Maria

The Time Machine

as Mrs. Watchett

The Swap

as Rose Trenchard

Two Men Went To War

as Faith

Saving Grace

as Margaret Sutton

How Proust Can Change Your Life

2000

as Virginia Woolf

4.7

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

2000

as Signore Reale

5.7

Mad Cows

1999

as Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)

The Lost Lover

as The Grandmother

Milk

as Veronica

I Want You

as Woman at Hairdresser #1

5.5

Judas Kiss

1998

as Shouting Woman (uncredited)

Anna Karenina

as Vronskaya

The Winter Guest

as Elspeth

Emma

as Mrs. Bates

Before the Rain

as Anne's Mother

The Blue Boy

as Marie's Mother

Much Ado About Nothing

as Ursula

Peter's Friends

as Vera

Tree of Hands

as Julia

Colleagues From Hell

1989

The Life and Death of King John

1984

as Lady Faulconbridge

7.0

Buffet

1976

as Joan

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

as Fraulein Manzialy

Evelyn

as The Wife

The Bristol Entertainment

1971

as Bridget

Otley

1969

as Jean

6.2

Television (45)

Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife

2012

as Lady Anne Meriot

6.0

Under the Hammer

2010

The Sarah Jane Adventures

2007

as Bea Nelson-Stanley

7.1

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

as Self

Kingdom

as Aunt Auriel

Kingdom

as Aunt Auriel

Afterlife

The Royal

as Daisy Crannagh

Foyle's War

as Lady Muriel Sackville

Timeshift

as self

Stig of the Dump

as Marjorie

Waking the Dead

as Mrs. Carstairs

Monarch of the Glen

as Isobel Hogg

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

as Lady Margaret

Midsomer Murders

as Felicity Dinsdale

Hamish Macbeth

as Vicky Jeffreys

Ready, Steady, Cook

as Self - Guest

All or Nothing at All

as Mrs. Timpson

Heartbeat

as Nancy Bellow

The House of Eliott

as Edith Duglass

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Lady Carrington

8.2

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

About Face

Clarence

as Mrs. Vaile

That's Love

Ffizz

Hell's Bells

as Edith Makepeace

Screen Two

as Marie's Mother

Taggart

The Barchester Chronicles

1982

as Mrs Stanhope

7.0

Tales of the Unexpected

as Maggie Patton

Minder

as Magistrate

Agony

as Mrs. Lucas

Come Back, Lucy

as Aunt Gwen

BBC2 Play of the Week

1977

as Phyllis

7.0

When the Boat Comes In

1976

6.5

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

as Mrs. Thripp

6.9

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

1973

as Mother

5.5

Upstairs, Downstairs

1971

as Lady Constance Weir

Play for Today

as The Wife

The Main Chance

as Alison Murray

The Jazz Age

as Miss Cummins

Drama 61-67

1961

as Ann Shelley

Dixon of Dock Green

1955

as Rosie McCallion

5.3

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Maria

8.6