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