
Lindsay Duncan
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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.
Known For

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

Toast of London

A Discovery of Witches

Count Arthur Strong

Sherwood

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

Grown-Ups

Mint

Oliver Twist

Black Mirror

Made in Italy

Rainy Day Women

On Approval

Criminal Justice

Redemption

Gifted

Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair

Under the Tuscan Sun

A Year in Provence

Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders

Margaret

Margot
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