Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Birthday: 1950-11-07

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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.

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Frankenstein
Frankenstein

Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was writt...

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Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by...

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Under the Tuscan Sun
Under the Tuscan Sun

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour o...

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Dirty Tricks
Dirty Tricks

Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and th...

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The Reflecting Skin
The Reflecting Skin

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell...

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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland

Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on ...

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Body Parts
Body Parts

A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have thei...

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Longford
Longford

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulte...

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Margot
Margot

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and N...

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Christopher and His Kind
Christopher and His Kind

In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. A...

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Last Call
Last Call

A desperate mother is trying to reconnect with her son. Navigating an obvious void, she will finally...

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These Foolish Things
These Foolish Things

Gutrune's romance with newspaper editor Nick Verney is hampered by the fact that he is still in love...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespe...

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Burlesque Fairytales
Burlesque Fairytales

A fairytale thriller film set one night in a 1930's London theatre where all is not what it seems....

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Last Passenger
Last Passenger

Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked d...

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About Time
About Time

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in ...

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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of ...

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Le Week-End
Le Week-End

Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th weddi...

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No Ordinary Joe
No Ordinary Joe

The eccentric lesbian icon Joe Carstairs looks back on her adventurous life together with her faithf...

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Further Up Pompeii
Further Up Pompeii

A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusi...

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Amish: A Secret Life
Amish: A Secret Life

Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in an...

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Call Me Back
Call Me Back

Grace returns home from the funeral of her husband, George accompanied by her daughter, Lucy. Mother...

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by a...

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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evi...

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The Childeater
The Childeater

Eight-year old Betty is sent to stay with family on a remote Welsh farm, but her father has warned h...

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AfterLife
AfterLife

High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his caree...

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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter....

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Margaret
Margaret

A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as s...

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Grown-Ups
Grown-Ups

Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. ...

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The Winkler
The Winkler

Set in the near future, civil servants are busy winkling out and repatriating all first generation i...

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Doctor Jekyll
Doctor Jekyll

Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent...

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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests....

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Churchill's Secret
Churchill's Secret

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a s...

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On Approval
On Approval

Adaptation of the play by Frederick Lonsdale...

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Hamilton Mattress
Hamilton Mattress

Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city....

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Loose Connections
Loose Connections

A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference...

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National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus

When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles ...

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Gifted
Gifted

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mo...

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Prick Up Your Ears
Prick Up Your Ears

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama sc...

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Redemption
Redemption

After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wan...

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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays....

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Starter for 10
Starter for 10

In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a ...

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Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
Harold Pinter: A Celebration

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...

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Manifesto
Manifesto

In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It tu...

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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Carnage: Swallowing the Past

It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past....

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Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over i...

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An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this i...

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Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair

Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...

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Rainy Day Women
Rainy Day Women

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy ...

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Expelling the Demon
Expelling the Demon

The story takes place in a bedroom where, following an embarrassing sexual encounter, it shows a nak...

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My Zoe
My Zoe

Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her...

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Lawless
Lawless

It's Lila Pettitt's first day as the youngest female judge the British court system's ever seen. Fie...

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City Hall
City Hall

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and...

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Blackbird
Blackbird

A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensi...

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Little Joe
Little Joe

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage s...

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National Theatre Live: Hansard
National Theatre Live: Hansard

It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic C...

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November 1st
November 1st

A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met....

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Made in Italy
Made in Italy

A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherit...

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A Banquet
A Banquet

Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enl...

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Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders

Dramatised documentary which describes the police investigation that led to the conviction of David ...

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He Does Not Want Peace
He Does Not Want Peace

When a man witnesses a profound event, it threatens to destroy his family....

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These Foolish Things
These Foolish Things

Two men in an arctic weather station: one man lives with his dreams of a girlfriend past, the other ...

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The Entertainment System Is Down
The Entertainment System Is Down

Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment systems fail, an eclectic group of international p...

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Alma
Alma

A family embarks on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist. As they pitch camp at on...

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H Is for Hawk
H Is for Hawk

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn...

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Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah

Based on the story from DH Lawrence set during the time of the Great War in Cornwall. When a dapper ...

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