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Lindsay Duncan
Born
Lindsay Vere Duncan

(1950-11-07) 7 November 1950 (age 73)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
OccupationActress
Years active1975–present
SpouseHilton McRae

Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish stage and television actress, and winner of a Tony Award for Private Lives.

Personal life

Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to a father who served in the army for 21 years.[1] She is married to fellow Scottish actor Hilton McRae. They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991.

Career

Duncan was educated at King Edwards VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. She later studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in mostly unheralded theatre roles before graduating to television productions in the 1980s. These productions included On Approval (1982), Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983), Dead Head (1985), and Traffik (1989). On stage she created the role of La Marquise de Merteuil in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in Stratford, London and New York. An early television appearance was in a commercial for Head & Shoulders shampoo.[2]

In the 1990s, she continued to appear in prestigious London stage and screen productions, such as the 1999 TV version of Oliver Twist, in which she portrays Elizabeth Leeford. Duncan also appears in the 1999 film adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (in dual roles as the heroine's mother and drug-addicted aunt), in the 1997 TV series A History of Tom Jones: A Foundling as Lady Ballaston, in the 1996 film adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hippolyta and Titania, and in the 1993 TV serial A Year in Provence as the wife of author Peter Mayle.

Duncan played Servilia Caepionis in the 2005 HBO-BBC series Rome and she starred as Rose Harbinson in Starter for 10. Aged by make-up, she played Lord Longford's wife, Elizabeth, in the TV film Longford. In February 2009, she played the title role in Margaret. In November 2009, Duncan played Adelaide Brooke, companion to the Doctor, in the second of the 2009 Doctor Who specials.[3][4] Duncan played Alice's mother in Tim Burton's 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, alongside Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. From 13 October to 20 November 2010, Duncan starred in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin alongside her Private Lives co-star Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw.[5]

Duncan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.[6] Duncan provided the narration for the Matt Lucas and David Walliams 2010/2011 fly-on-the-wall spoof documentary series Come Fly With Me on the BBC.

Filmography

Year Title Format Role Notes
1977 The New Avengers TV Series Jane Episode: "Angels of Death"
1987 Prick Up Your Ears Film Anthea Lahr
1989 Traffik TV Mini-series Helen Rosshalde
1990 The Reflecting Skin Film Dolphin Blue Won Catalonian International Film Festival Award for best actress
1991 G.B.H. TV Mini-series Barbara Douglas Nominated for a BAFTAaward for best actress
1993 A Year in Provence TV Mini-series Annie Mayle
1996 City Hall Film Sydney Pappas
1996 A Midsummer Night's Dream Film Hippolyta / Titania
1999 Shooting the Past TV Film Marilyn Truman Nominated for a BAFTAaward for best actress

Nominated for a Royal Television Award

Won a Brussels Film Festival award for best actress

1999 An Ideal Husband Film Lady Markby
1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Film TC-14 Voice
1999 Mansfield Park Film Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
1999 Oliver Twist TV Mini-series Elizabeth Leeford
1999 The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling (TV miniseries) TV Mini-series Lady Bellaston
2001 Perfect Strangers TV Film Alice Nominated for a BAFTAaward for best actress
2003 AfterLife Film May Brogan Won Bratislava Film Festival Award for best actress
2003 Under the Tuscan Sun Film Katherine
2005–2007 Rome TV Series Servilia of the Junii
2005–2006 Spooks TV Series Angela Wells Episodes: "Diana" and "Gas and Oil, Part One"
2005 Agatha Christie's Poirot TV Series Lady Tamplin Episode: "The Mystery of the Blue Train"
2006 Starter for 10 Film Rose Harbinson
2006 Longford TV Film Lady Elizabeth Longford
2008 Criminal Justice TV Mini-series Alison Slaughter Episodes: Episode 3-5
2008 Lost in Austen TV Mini-series Lady Catherine de Bourgh Episodes: Episode 3 and 4
2009 Margaret TV Film Margaret Thatcher Nominated for a BAFTA Award for best actress
2009 Doctor Who TV Series Adelaide Brooke Episode: "The Waters of Mars"
2010 Alice in Wonderland Film Helen Kingsleigh
2010 Mission 2110 TV Series Cybele
2010 Come Fly With Me TV Series Narrator
2011 " Agatha Christie's Marple" TV series Marina Gregg Episode: "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"
2011 The Sinking of the Laconia Television Film Elisabeth Fullwood BBC Productions

References

  1. ^ "Lindsay Duncan: When in Rome". The Independent. London. 23 October 2005. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Thames Adverts, 25th January 1979 (1)". Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  3. ^ "Lindsay Duncan: I'm thrilled to be Doctor Who's new assistant". The Daily Record. 18 February 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
  4. ^ "Lindsay Duncan to star in second Doctor Who Special of 2009". Retrieved 18 February 2009.
  5. ^ http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/1299
  6. ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 13 June 2009.

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