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Lindsay Vere Duncan, is a British actress. On stage, she has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award for her performance in Private Lives and a Tony Award nomination for her role in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Duncan has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her best known roles on television include: Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii in the HBO/BBC/RAI series Rome (2005–2007), Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" (2009) and Lady Smallwood in the BBC series Sherlock. On film, she portrayed Anthea Lahr in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), voiced the android TC-14 in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), and played the acerbic theatre critic Tabitha Dickinson in Birdman or (2014).
Birth Name
Lindsay Vere Duncan
Born
Tuesday, 07 November 1950
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Sherwood | Jennifer Hale | 2022 |
The Wheel of Time | Anvaere Damodred | 2021 |
Around the World in 80 Days | Jane Digby | 2021 |
A Banquet | June | 2021 |
Made in Italy | Kate | 2020 |
My Zoe | Kathy | 2019 |
National Theatre Live: Hansard | Diana | 2019 |
His Dark Materials | Octavia | 2019 |
The Morning Show | Martha Ellison | 2019 |
Little Joe | Psychotherapist | 2019 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Sherwood | Jennifer Hale | 2022 |
The Wheel of Time | Anvaere Damodred | 2021 |
Around the World in 80 Days | Jane Digby | 2021 |
A Banquet | June | 2021 |
Made in Italy | Kate | 2020 |
My Zoe | Kathy | 2019 |
National Theatre Live: Hansard | Diana | 2019 |
His Dark Materials | Octavia | 2019 |
The Morning Show | Martha Ellison | 2019 |
Little Joe | Psychotherapist | 2019 |
Blackbird | Liz | 2019 |
A Discovery of Witches | Ysabeau de Clermont | 2018 |
Gifted | Evelyn Adler / Evelyn | 2017 |
Carnage | Maude Polikoff / Maude | 2017 |
Close to the Enemy | Frau Bellinghausen | 2016 |
Alice Through the Looking Glass | Helen Kingsleigh | 2016 |
Too Much TV | Clemmie Churchill - Churchill's Secret | 2016 |
Churchill's Secret | Clemmie Churchill | 2016 |
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Tabitha / Tabitha Dickinson | 2014 |
The Honourable Woman | Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle | 2014 |
The Leftovers | Grace Playford | 2014 |
Inside No. 9 | Loretta Lamb | 2014 |
You, Me & Them | Lydia Walker | 2013 |
Le Week-end | Meg / Meg Burrows | 2013 |
Secret Voices of Hollywood | Self - Narrator | 2013 |
About Time | Mum | 2013 |
Count Arthur Strong | Dame Agnes | 2013 |
Last Passenger | Elaine Middleton | 2013 |
Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea | Pauline | 2013 |
Toast of London | Lindsay Duncan | 2012 |
Amish: A Secret Life | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 2012 |
The Hollow Crown | Duchess of York | 2012 |
Playhouse Presents | Mrs. Dalloway | 2012 |
White Heat | Lilly (Present Day) | 2012 |
Black Mirror | Alex Cairns | 2011 |
Spy | The Director | 2011 |
Against the Wall | Faith Kowalski | 2011 |
Christopher and His Kind | Kathleen Isherwood | 2011 |
The Sinking of the Laconia | Elisabeth Fullwood | 2011 |
Come Fly with Me | Narrator | 2010 |
Sherlock | Lady Smallwood | 2010 |
Mission 2110 | Neuros / Cybele | 2010 |
Alice in Wonderland | Helen Kingsleigh | 2010 |
How Safe Are Our Skies | Narrator | 2010 |
Burlesque Fairytales | Ice Queen | 2010 |
Margot | Madam | 2009 |
Margaret | Margaret Thatcher | 2009 |
Wallander | Monika Westin | 2008 |
Merlin | Queen Annis | 2008 |
Lost in Austen | Lady Catherine de Bourgh | 2008 |
Criminal Justice | Alison Slaughter | 2008 |
Frankenstein | Jane Pretorius / Professor Jane Pretorius | 2007 |
Longford | Lady Elizabeth Longford | 2006 |
Starter for 10 | Rose Harbinson / Rose Harbison | 2006 |
Rome | Servilia of the Junii | 2005 |
Doctor Who | Adelaide Brooke | 2005 |
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls | Audrey Pretty | 2004 |
Marple | Marina Gregg | 2004 |
AfterLife | May Brogan | 2004 |
Under the Tuscan Sun | Katherine | 2003 |
Comedy Connections | Pauline | 2003 |
A Life More Ordinary | Girl 2 / Dancer | 2002 |
The 56th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Winner | 2002 |
MI-5 | Angela Wells | 2002 |
Hamilton Mattress | Beryl / Gertrude (voice) / Gertrude | 2001 |
Victoria Wood: With All the Trimmings | Pauline | 2000 |
A History of Britain | Reader, Reading / Reader, (voice), (voice) / Reader | 2000 |
Dirty Tricks | Alison | 2000 |
Oliver Twist | Elizabeth Leeford | 1999 |
Mansfield Park | Lady Bertram / Mrs. Price | 1999 |
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | TC-14 (voice) / TC-14 | 1999 |
An Ideal Husband | Lady Markby | 1999 |
Get Real | Louise | 1998 |
Meet the Ancestors | Narrator | 1998 |
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Lady Bellaston | 1997 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Hippolyta / Titania | 1996 |
City Hall | Sydney Pappas | 1996 |
Jake's Progress | Monica | 1995 |
Just William | Lady Walton | 1994 |
The Rector's Wife | Anna Bouverie | 1994 |
Absolutely Fabulous | Jeanne Durand | 1992 |
Body Parts | Dr. Agatha Webb | 1991 |
G.B.H. | Barbara Douglas | 1991 |
The Storyteller: Greek Myths | Medea | 1991 |
The Reflecting Skin | Dolphin Blue | 1990 |
Masterchef | Self | 1990 |
TECX | Laura Pellin | 1990 |
Traffik | Helen Rosshalde | 1989 |
Poirot | Lady Tamplin | 1989 |
The Child Eater | Eirwen | 1989 |
Colin's Sandwich | Rosemary | 1988 |
Manifesto | Lily Sachor | 1988 |
The Play on One | Gutrune Day | 1988 |
The 41st Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee & Performer | 1987 |
Prick Up Your Ears | Anthea Lahr | 1987 |
Dead Head | Dana Cass | 1986 |
Travelling Man | Andrea | 1984 |
Loose Connections | Sally | 1984 |
Reilly: Ace of Spies | Alexandra | 1983 |
Muck and Brass | Jean Torrode | 1982 |
Dick Turpin | Catherine Langford | 1979 |
The South Bank Show | Pauline | 1978 |
The New Avengers | Jane | 1976 |
Arena | Christine Butcher, Herself, Rose, Various characters | 1975 |
Further Up Pompeii! | Scrubba | 1975 |
BBC2 Playhouse | Christine Butcher | 1974 |
Play for Today | Karen Miller | 1970 |
ITV Playhouse | Diane | 1967 |
BBC Play of the Month | Helen Hayle | 1965 |
Horizon | Self - Narrator | 1964 |