Cast
Lindsay Duncan
Acting
Cast
Lindsay Duncan
Known for
Acting
Born
1950-11-07
From
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known as Lindsay Vere Duncan
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.
★7.9
MOVIE2013
About Time
as Mum
★6.6
MOVIE2010
Alice in Wonderland
as Helen Kingsleigh
★7.4
MOVIE2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Tabitha
★6.6
MOVIE2016
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Helen Kingsleigh
★6.6
MOVIE1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as TC-14 (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE2017
Gifted
as Evelyn Adler
★7.1
MOVIE2025
H Is for Hawk
as Mum
★6.9
MOVIE2003
Under the Tuscan Sun
as Katherine
★4.3
MOVIE2022
A Banquet
as June
★6.0
MOVIE2020
Made in Italy
as Kate
★6.8
MOVIE2019
Blackbird
as Liz
★7.0
MOVIE1991
Redemption
as Kath Peachey
★6.3
MOVIE2011
Christopher and His Kind
as Kathleen Isherwood
★5.6
MOVIE2013
Last Passenger
as Elaine Middleton
★6.7
MOVIE1999
Mansfield Park
as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
★6.4
MOVIE2006
Starter for 10
as Rose Harbison
★5.8
MOVIE2019
Little Joe
as Psychotherapist
★6.2
MOVIE2013
Le Week-End
as Meg Burrows
★6.5
MOVIE1999
An Ideal Husband
as Lady Markby
★6.0
MOVIE1996
City Hall
as Sydney Pappas
★7.7
MOVIE1989
The Childeater
as Eirwen
MOVIETBA
The Entertainment System Is Down
★5.6
MOVIE2010
Burlesque Fairytales
as Ice Queen
★7.9
MOVIE2009
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
as Captain Adelaide Brooke
★6.6
MOVIE1990
The Reflecting Skin
as Dolphin Blue
MOVIETBA
RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2019
My Zoe
as Kathy
★5.5
MOVIE2003
AfterLife
MOVIETBA
Daughter of Eden
as Emer
★6.4
MOVIE2017
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
as Maude
★6.8
MOVIE2002
Hamilton Mattress
as Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2016
Churchill's Secret
as Clemmie Churchill
★8.0
MOVIE1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE1988
Manifesto
as Lily Sachor
★6.7
MOVIE1987
Prick Up Your Ears
as Anthea Lahr
MOVIE2023
Call Me Back
as Grace
★5.8
MOVIE2004
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as Audrey Pretty
★7.0
MOVIE2000
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Pauline
★5.9
MOVIE1996
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Hippolyta / Titania
MOVIE2021
No Ordinary Joe
as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
MOVIE1989
These Foolish Things
as Gutrune Day
★5.9
MOVIE1991
Body Parts
as Dr. Agatha Webb
★3.8
MOVIE1984
Loose Connections
as Sally
★8.7
MOVIE2019
National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Diana Hesketh
★7.0
MOVIE1999
Expelling the Demon
as Woman
★4.6
MOVIE2023
Doctor Jekyll
as Sandra Poole
★6.4
MOVIE2012
Amish: A Secret Life
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1984
Samson and Delilah
as Alice
★6.9
MOVIE1980
Grown-Ups
as Mrs Butcher
★7.6
MOVIE1975
Further Up Pompeii
as Scrubba
★9.0
MOVIE1982
On Approval
as Helen
MOVIE2024
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
as Dora
★8.0
MOVIE2016
He Does Not Want Peace
as Rachel Englebright
★6.5
MOVIE2006
Longford
as Lady Elizabeth Longford
MOVIE1979
The Winkler
as Diane
★5.7
MOVIE2009
Margaret
as Margaret Thatcher
★5.5
MOVIE2000
Dirty Tricks
as Alison
★10.0
MOVIETBA
These Foolish Things
★5.5
MOVIE2009
Margot
as Madam
★8.0
MOVIE2023
Last Call
as Kate
★9.0
MOVIE2001
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
as Narrator
★5.6
MOVIE2007
Frankenstein
as Jane Pretorius
MOVIETBA
Alma
★7.0
MOVIE1984
Rainy Day Women
as Karen Miller
MOVIE1995
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
as Narrator
★6.9
MOVIE2019
November 1st
as Bonnie
★9.5
MOVIE2013
Lawless
as Lady Justice MacNeil