Lindsay Duncan

Acting · Born 1950-11-07 in 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…

Filmography

• About Time as Mum
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Tabitha
• Gifted as Evelyn Adler
• Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars as Captain Adelaide Brooke
• Frankenstein as Jane Pretorius
• Mansfield Park as Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
• Under the Tuscan Sun as Katherine
• Dirty Tricks as Alison
• The Reflecting Skin as Dolphin Blue
• Alice in Wonderland as Helen Kingsleigh

TV

• Rome as Servilia of the Junii
• Spooks as Angela Wells
• Inside No. 9 as Loretta Lamb
• Black Mirror as Alex Cairns
• Agatha Christie's Marple as Marina Gregg
• Sherlock as Lady Smallwood
• The Wheel of Time as Anvaere Damodred
• Merlin as Queen Annis
• The Morning Show as Martha Ellison
• Agatha Christie's Poirot as Lady Tamplin