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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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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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BBC Play of the Month
Doctor Who
The Leftovers
The Morning Show
Agatha Christie's Marple
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Inside No. 9
Merlin
The Wheel of Time
His Dark Materials
Against the Wall
Timewatch
The Play on One
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Around the World in 80 Days
Spy
The New Avengers
Sherlock
The Hollow Crown
Sherwood
Toast of London
A Discovery of Witches
Count Arthur Strong
Spooks
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
The Storyteller
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Alice in Wonderland
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Further Up Pompeii
Little Joe
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Rome
About Time
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Mint
Oliver Twist
Grown-Ups
Black Mirror
Rainy Day Women
Made in Italy
Criminal Justice
On Approval
Redemption
Gifted
Under the Tuscan Sun
A Year in Provence
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
Margot
Margaret
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
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