Acting credits
113
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Lindsay Duncan
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 60Series: 53
TMDB ID: 30083
IMDb ID: nm0242026
Known for: Acting
Born: November 7, 1950
Age: 75
Place of birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1965 - 2025
Years active: 61
Average TMDB rating: 7.05
Wikidata: Q242504
Also known as
Lindsay Vere Duncan • Линдси Дункан • 린제이 던칸
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Lindsay Duncan.
7.1
H Is for Hawk
2025 Movie
National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus
as Dora
2024 Movie
4.9
Doctor Jekyll
as Sandra Poole
2023 Movie
Call Me Back
as Grace
2023 Movie
8.0
Last Call
as Kate
2023 Movie
4.1
A Banquet
as June
2022 Movie
No Ordinary Joe
as Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
2021 Movie
6.0
Made in Italy
as Kate
2020 Movie
6.5
My Zoe
as Kathy
2019 Movie
8.7
National Theatre Live: Hansard
as Diana Hesketh
2019 Movie
5.7
Little Joe
as Psychotherapist
2019 Movie
6.9
November 1st
as Bonnie
2019 Movie
6.8
Blackbird
as Liz
2019 Movie
8.0
Gifted
as Evelyn Adler
2017 Movie
6.4
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
as Maude
2017 Movie
8.0
He Does Not Want Peace
as Rachel Englebright
2016 Movie
6.6
Alice Through the Looking Glass
as Helen Kingsleigh
2016 Movie
6.3
Churchill's Secret
as Clemmie Churchill
2016 Movie
7.4
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
as Tabitha
2014 Movie
5.5
Last Passenger
as Elaine Middleton
2013 Movie
6.2
Le Week-End
as Meg Burrows
2013 Movie
9.5
Lawless
as Lady Justice MacNeil
2013 Movie
7.9
About Time
as Mum
2013 Movie
6.4
Amish: A Secret Life
as Narrator (voice)
2012 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Lindsay Duncan.
5.9
The Death of Bunny Munro
as Doris Pennington • 6 eps
2025 Series
6.4
Truelove
as Phil • 6 eps
2024 Series
7.0
Sherwood
as Jennifer Hale • 1 eps
2022 Series
7.3
Around the World in 80 Days
as Jane Digby • 1 eps
2021 Series
7.6
The Wheel of Time
as Anvaere Damodred • 5 eps
2021 Series
7.8
His Dark Materials
as Octavia (voice) • 3 eps
2019 Series
7.7
The Morning Show
as Martha Ellison • 3 eps
2019 Series
7.8
A Discovery of Witches
as Ysabeau de Clermont • 15 eps
2018 Series
5.1
Close to the Enemy
as Frau Bellinghausen • 4 eps
2016 Series
7.3
The Honourable Woman
as Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle • 8 eps
2014 Series
7.6
The Leftovers
as Grace Playford • 5 eps
2014 Series
8.1
Inside No. 9
as Loretta Lamb • 1 eps
2014 Series
7.4
Toast of London
1 eps
2013 Series
6.9
Count Arthur Strong
as Dame Agnes • 1 eps
2013 Series
7.4
The Hollow Crown
as Duchess of York • 1 eps
2012 Series
6.0
Playhouse Presents
as Mrs. Dalloway • 1 eps
2012 Series
5.7
White Heat
as Lilly (present day) • 6 eps
2012 Series
8.3
Black Mirror
as Alex Cairns • 1 eps
2011 Series
7.6
Spy
as The Director • 2 eps
2011 Series
6.5
Against the Wall
as Faith Kowalski • 1 eps
2011 Series
6.4
The Sinking of the Laconia
as Elisabeth Fullwood • 2 eps
2011 Series
8.5
Sherlock
as Lady Smallwood • 3 eps
2010 Series
7.8
Merlin
as Queen Annis • 2 eps
2008 Series
7.1
Lost in Austen
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh • 4 eps
2008 Series