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Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Actor · b. 1950 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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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    About Time

    2013 · 9.5K votes

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    Alice in Wonderland

    2010 · 15K votes

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    Gifted

    2017 · 6.1K votes

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    Under the Tuscan Sun

    2003 · 1K votes

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    City Hall

    1996 · 333 votes

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    Starter for 10

    2006 · 464 votes

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    Little Joe

    2019 · 333 votes

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    H Is for Hawk

    2025 · 34 votes

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    Made in Italy

    2020 · 303 votes

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    Blackbird

    2019 · 226 votes

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    An Ideal Husband

    1999 · 228 votes

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    A Banquet

    2022 · 35 votes

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    Mansfield Park

    1999 · 347 votes

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    Body Parts

    1991 · 138 votes

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    The Reflecting Skin

    1990 · 228 votes

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    My Zoe

    2019 · 67 votes

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    Prick Up Your Ears

    1987 · 106 votes

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    Christopher and His Kind

    2011 · 96 votes

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    Black Mirror

    2011 · 6.5K votes

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    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    1989 · 584 votes

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    BBC Play of the Month

    1965 · 8 votes

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    Spooks

    2002 · 147 votes

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    Sherlock

    2010 · 6.7K votes

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    Agatha Christie's Marple

    2004 · 149 votes

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    The Wheel of Time

    2021 · 2.5K votes

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    The Morning Show

    2019 · 948 votes

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    The Leftovers

    2014 · 1.3K votes

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    Screen Two

    1985 · 7 votes

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    Merlin

    2008 · 1.2K votes

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    Rome

    2005 · 1.6K votes

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    ITV Playhouse

    1967 · 3 votes

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    His Dark Materials

    2019 · 2K votes

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    Playhouse

    1974 · 1 votes

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    A Discovery of Witches

    2018 · 895 votes

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    Inside No. 9

    2014 · 288 votes

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    Absolutely Fabulous

    1992 · 195 votes

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    ScreenPlay

    1986 · 2 votes

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    Reilly: Ace of Spies

    1983 · 25 votes

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    Playhouse Presents

    2012 · 1 votes

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    The New Avengers

    1976 · 52 votes

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    The Hollow Crown

    2012 · 82 votes

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    The Play on One

    1988 · 3 votes