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