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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 7, 1950
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
- Lindsay Vere Duncan
- Линдси Дункан
- 린제이 던칸
Lindsay Duncan
1.5 Popularity
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 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
8.0
H Is for Hawk
2025
4.2
Doris Pennington
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
0.0
Dora
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
2024
6.3
Phil
Truelove
2024
4.9
Sandra Poole
Doctor Jekyll
2023
0.0
Grace
Call Me Back
2023
8.0
Kate
Last Call
2023
7.0
Jennifer Hale
Sherwood
2022
4.2
June
A Banquet
2022
7.3
Jane Digby
Around the World in 80 Days
2021
Credits
H Is for Hawk
2025
8.0
The Death of Bunny Munro
as Doris Pennington
2025
4.2
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
as Dora
2024
0.0
Truelove
as Phil
2024
6.3
Doctor Jekyll
as Sandra Poole
2023
4.9
Call Me Back
as Grace
2023
0.0
Last Call
as Kate
2023
8.0
Sherwood
as Jennifer Hale
2022
7.0
A Banquet
as June
2022
4.2
Around the World in 80 Days
as Jane Digby
2021
7.3
The Wheel of Time
as Anvaere Damodred
2021
7.6
No Ordinary Joe
as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
2021
0.0
Made in Italy
as Kate
2020
6.0
My Zoe
as Kathy
2019
6.5
National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Diana Hesketh
2019
8.7
His Dark Materials
as Octavia (voice)
2019
7.9
The Morning Show
as Martha Ellison
2019
7.7
Little Joe
as Psychotherapist
2019
5.7
November 1st
as Bonnie
2019
6.9
Blackbird
as Liz
2019
6.8
A Discovery of Witches
as Ysabeau de Clermont
2018
7.8
Gifted
as Evelyn Adler
2017
8.0
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
as Maude
2017
6.4
Close to the Enemy
as Frau Bellinghausen
2016
5.1
He Does Not Want Peace
as Rachel Englebright
2016
8.0
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Helen Kingsleigh
2016
6.6
Churchill's Secret
as Clemmie Churchill
2016
6.3
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Tabitha
2014
7.4
The Honourable Woman
as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
2014
7.3
The Leftovers
as Grace Playford
2014
7.7
Inside No. 9
as Loretta Lamb
2014
8.0
Toast of London
2013
7.4
Last Passenger
as Elaine Middleton
2013
5.5
Le Week-End
as Meg Burrows
2013
6.2
Lawless
as Lady Justice MacNeil
2013
10.0
About Time
as Mum
2013
7.9
Count Arthur Strong
as Dame Agnes
2013
6.9
Amish: A Secret Life
as Narrator (voice)
2012
6.4
The Hollow Crown
as Duchess of York
2012
7.4
Playhouse Presents
as Mrs. Dalloway
2012
6.0
White Heat
as Lilly (present day)
2012
5.3
Black Mirror
as Alex Cairns
2011
8.3
Spy
as The Director
2011
7.6
Against the Wall
as Faith Kowalski
2011
6.6
Christopher and His Kind
as Kathleen Isherwood
2011
6.3
The Sinking of the Laconia
as Elisabeth Fullwood
2011
6.4
Sherlock
as Lady Smallwood
2010
8.5
Alice in Wonderland
as Helen Kingsleigh
2010
6.6
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
2010
0.0
Burlesque Fairytales
as Ice Queen
2010
5.6
Margot
as Madam
2009
5.5
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
as Captain Adelaide Brooke
2009
7.9
Margaret
as Margaret Thatcher
2009
5.8
Merlin
as Queen Annis
2008
7.8
Lost in Austen
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
2008
7.1
Criminal Justice
as Alison Slaughter
2008
7.6
Frankenstein
as Jane Pretorius
2007
5.2
Longford
as Lady Elizabeth Longford
2006
6.5
Starter for 10
as Rose Harbison
2006
6.4
Rome
as Servilia of the Junii
2005
8.2
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as Audrey Pretty
2004
5.6
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Marina Gregg
2004
7.8
Under the Tuscan Sun
as Katherine
2003
6.9
AfterLife
2003
4.0
Working Shakespeare
2003
0.0
Spooks
as Angela Wells
2002
7.7
Hamilton Mattress
as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
2002
6.3
🎬
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
as Narrator
2001
0.0
Perfect Strangers
as Alice
2001
6.3
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Pauline
2000
6.5
A History of Britain
as Reader
2000
8.4
Dirty Tricks
as Alison
2000
5.3
Oliver Twist
as Elizabeth Leeford
1999
6.3
Mansfield Park
as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
1999
6.7
Expelling the Demon
as Woman
1999
7.0
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as TC-14 (voice)
1999
6.6
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
1999
6.5
Shooting the Past
as Marilyn Truman
1999
7.0
🎬
Get Real
as Louise
1998
6.0
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Lady Bellaston
1997
7.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hippolyta / Titania
1996
5.6
City Hall
as Sydney Pappas
1996
5.9
Jake's Progress
as Monica
1995
2.7
🎬
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
as Narrator
1995
0.0
The Rector's Wife
as Anna Bouverie
1994
8.0
A Year in Provence
as Annie Mayle
1993
6.0
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as Medea
1991
8.2
Body Parts
as Dr. Agatha Webb
1991
5.8
Redemption
as Kath Peachey
1991
0.0
G.B.H.
as Barbara Douglas
1991
6.2
The Reflecting Skin
as Dolphin Blue
1990
6.7
🎬
TECX
as Laura Pellin
1990
6.0
Traffik
as Helen Rosshalde
1989
7.5
These Foolish Things
as Gutrune Day
1989
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Lady Tamplin
1989
8.2
The Childeater
as Eirwen
1989
7.0
Colin's Sandwich
as Rosemary
1988
6.0
Manifesto
as Lily Sachor
1988
3.7
The Play on One
as Gutrune Day
1988
6.0
Prick Up Your Ears
as Anthea Lahr
1987
6.6
Dead Head
as Dana Cass
1986
4.3
Travelling Man
as Andrea
1984
5.0
Loose Connections
as Sally
1984
1.7
Rainy Day Women
as Karen Miller
1984
0.0
The Kit Curran Radio Show
as Pamela Scott
1984
5.5
🎬
Samson and Delilah
as Alice
1984
0.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Alexandra
1983
7.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
1982
8.0
🎬
On Approval
as Helen
1982
0.0
Muck and Brass
as Jean Torrode
1982
6.0
Grown-Ups
as Mrs Butcher
1980
6.7
🎬
The Winkler
as Diane
1979
0.0
Dick Turpin
as Catherine Langford
1979
7.5
The New Avengers
as Jane
1976
7.0
Further Up Pompeii
as Scrubba
1975
7.8
Playhouse
as Christine Butcher
1974
7.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Helen Hayle
1965
5.0
🎬
These Foolish Things
N/A
0.0
🎬
Mint
as Ollie
N/A
0.0
The Entertainment System Is Down
N/A
0.0
🎬
Alma
N/A
0.0