Lindsay Duncan
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Lindsay Duncan | |
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Born | Lindsay Vere Duncan 7 November 1950 |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1975–present |
Spouse | Hilton 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 | |
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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
- ^ "Lindsay Duncan: When in Rome". The Independent. London. 23 October 2005. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ "Thames Adverts, 25th January 1979 (1)". Retrieved 26 July 2010.
- ^ "Lindsay Duncan: I'm thrilled to be Doctor Who's new assistant". The Daily Record. 18 February 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
- ^ "Lindsay Duncan to star in second Doctor Who Special of 2009". Retrieved 18 February 2009.
- ^ http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/1299
- ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (invalid
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External links
- Wikipedia introduction cleanup from July 2009
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama
- Audio book narrators
- Drama Desk Award winners
- Olivier Award winners
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Royal National Theatre Company members
- Royal Shakespeare Company members
- Scottish film actors
- Scottish radio actors
- Scottish stage actors
- Scottish television actors
- Scottish voice actors
- Shakespearean actors
- Tony Award winners