Phyllis Logan

Actor Jan 11 (age 70) Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK 1970–2026 (56 year career)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phyllis Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress, known for playing Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy (1986–1993) and Mrs Hughes (later Carson) in Downton Abbey (2010–2015). She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the 1983 film Another Time, Another Place. Her other film appearances include Secrets & Lies (1996), Shooting Fish (1997), Downton Abbey (2019) and Misbehaviour (2020).

Known For

Film

Downton Abbey

Mrs. Hughes

Film

Downton Abbey

Mrs Hughes

Film

Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Telescreen Anouncer (voice)

Film

Secrets & Lies

Monica Purley

Film

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Mrs Hughes

Film

No Way Up

Mardy

Film

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Elsie Hughes

Film

Misbehaviour

Evelyn Alexander

Filmography

Acting (103)

Movies (54)

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

2025

as Elsie Hughes

7.1

Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale

as Self

No Way Up

as Mardy

Surprised by Oxford

as Provost Regina Knight

6.0

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022

as Mrs Hughes

7.2

Harold & Mary

2022

as Mary

Rocketry: The Nambi Effect

as Mrs Cleaver

The Last Bus

as Mary

Last Train to Christmas

as Auntie Vi

You Really Got Me

as Older Linda

Our Queen at War

as Narrator (voice)

Misbehaviour

as Evelyn Alexander

Downton Abbey

as Mrs Hughes

Downton Abbey Live!

as Self

Day of the Flowers

as Brenda

The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2

2013

as Self

Nativity!

as Mrs. Lore

Missing

as Karen Foster

Beneath the Skin

as DCI Grace Shilling

Alibi

as Linda Brentwood

The Real Jane Austen

as Mrs. Austen

Fields of Gold

as Rachel Greenlaw

All the King's Men

1999

as Mary Beck

6.2

The Game

1998

as Betty

Shooting Fish

as Mrs Ross

Secrets & Lies

as Monica Purley

Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One

1995

as Mrs Wilde

8.0

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life

1993

as Frau Bunofsky

6.9

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

as Karla

Silent Cries

as Nancy Muir

Freddie As F.R.O.7.

as Nessie (voice)

Effie's Burning

as Dr Ruth Kovacs

Happy Feet

1991

as Dora Jackson

And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon

1991

as Andrea

The Dark Sun

1990

as Attorney Camilla Staffa

Goldeneye

as Ann Fleming

The Angry Earth

as Mary Penrys Jones

Defrosting the Fridge

1989

as Lee

1.0

And a Nightingale Sang

1989

as Helen

4.3

Sitting Targets

1989

as Alison

The Kitchen Toto

1988

as Janet Graham

6.6

The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway

1988

as Mary Welsh

The McGuffin

as Anne

The Inquiry

as Claudia Procula

Off Peak

as Janet

Time and the Conways

1985

as Kay Conway

The Doctor and the Devils

1985

as Elizabeth Rock

6.2

Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984

as The Telescreen Anouncer (voice)

The Dress

as Julia

End of the Line

as Rose

The Chain

1984

as Alison

6.8

Every Picture Tells a Story

1984

as Agnes Scott

Another Time, Another Place

1983

as Janie

4.3

The Good Time Girls

1981

as Nancy Park

Television (49)

A Taste for Murder

2026 Upcoming

as Elena Da Vinale

Apr 7

The Bombing of Pan Am 103

as Moira Shearer

Miss Austen

as Mrs. Austen

Murder Most Puzzling

as Cora Felton

Elliott from Earth

The Adventures of Paddington

as Mrs. Bird (voice)

Guilt

as Maggie Lynch

Girlfriends

as Linda

The Good Karma Hospital

as Maggie Smart

Shetland

as Grace Bain

Vera

as Shirley

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

Downton Abbey

as Mrs. Hughes

Lip Service

Honest

Missing: All Secrets Have a Price

Bones

as Sandra Zins

Doctor Who

as Andinio

New Tricks

as Dr. Mathieson

Murder in Suburbia

Sea of Souls

as Elaine

The Royal

as Lady George Fawcett

7.6

Spooks

2002

as Diana Jewell

7.7

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

2002

as Miriam Whitelaw

7.2

Dickens

2002

as Georgina Hogarth

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

Hope and Glory

as Annie Gilbert

Invasion: Earth

as Sqn. Ldr. Helen Knox

6.1

Midsomer Murders

1997

as Kate Merrill

7.5

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

1997

7.2

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

as Elizabeth Leaming

Silent Witness

as Helen Wharton

Dalziel & Pascoe

as Det. Sgt. Jenny Ettrick

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Samantha Fisher

Chiller

as Anna Spalinsky

Pie in the Sky

as Det. Supt. Chalmers

Rik Mayall Presents

as Mrs. Wilde

Heartbeat

as Julia Kendall

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Nurse Hopkins

Hannay

The Play on One

as Andrea

Inspector Morse

as Julia Stevens

Bust

as Sheila Walsh

Lovejoy

as Lady Jane Felsham

Lovejoy

as Lady Jane Felsham

Screen Two

as Anne

Wogan

as Self

Shoestring

Play for Today

as Nancy Park