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.
63 movies · 60 shows
H Is for Hawk
2025·7.2
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
2024·0.0
Doctor Jekyll
2023·4.6
Call Me Back
2023·0.0
Last Call
2023·8.0
A Banquet
2022·4.3
No Ordinary Joe
2021·0.0
Made in Italy
2020·6.0
My Zoe
2019·6.5
National Theatre Live: Hansard
2019·8.7
Little Joe
2019·5.8
November 1st
2019·6.9
Blackbird
2019·6.8
Gifted
2017·8.0
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017·6.4
He Does Not Want Peace
2016·8.0
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016·6.6
Churchill's Secret
2016·6.3
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014·7.4
Last Passenger
2013·5.6
Le Week-End
2013·6.2
Lawless
2013·9.5
About Time
2013·7.9
Amish: A Secret Life
2012·6.4
Christopher and His Kind
2011·6.3
Alice in Wonderland
2010·6.6
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010·8.0
Burlesque Fairytales
2010·5.6
Margot
2009·5.5
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
2009·7.9
Margaret
2009·5.7
Frankenstein
2007·5.6
Longford
2006·6.5
Starter for 10
2006·6.4
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004·5.8
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003·6.9
AfterLife
2003·5.5
Hamilton Mattress
2002·6.8
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
2001·9.0
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000·7.0
Dirty Tricks
2000·5.5
Mansfield Park
1999·6.7
Expelling the Demon
1999·7.0
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999·6.6
An Ideal Husband
1999·6.5
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1996·5.9
City Hall
1996·6.0
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
1995·0.0
Body Parts
1991·5.9
Redemption
1991·7.0
The Reflecting Skin
1990·6.6
These Foolish Things
1989·0.0
The Childeater
1989·7.7
Manifesto
1988·4.0
Prick Up Your Ears
1987·6.7
Loose Connections
1984·3.8
Rainy Day Women
1984·7.0
Samson and Delilah
1984·0.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982·8.0
On Approval
1982·9.0
Grown-Ups
1980·6.9
The Winkler
1979·0.0
Further Up Pompeii
1975·7.6