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Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Vere Duncan CBE was born on 7th November 1950 and is a distinguished Scottish actress. She started her journey in the arts in 1975 and has since received three BAFTA nominations, one Scottish BAFTA nomination, two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her stage work. Her rich career includes roles in numerous Harold Pinter plays and a range of film credits which include Prick Up Your Ears (1987), City Hall (1996), Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), and Blackbird (2019) amongst others. In addition to stage and films, Duncan has appeared in a variety of TV roles such as Barbara Douglas in G.B.H. (1991) and as Lady Smallwood on BBC One's Sherlock (2014-2017).
Duncan was born into a working-class Scottish family and educated at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her connection with theatre began with school productions and, at 21, she joined the London Central School of Speech and Drama. Her breakthrough role came in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill which won her an Obie. She played the role of Servilia Caepionis in the 2005 HBO-BBC series Rome and won a Tony Award for Best Actress and a second Olivier Award for her performance as Amanda Prynne in Noël Coward's Private Lives. In the course of her career, she has also starred in the plays of Harold Pinter, A Midsummer Night's Dream and as Queen Annis in BBC1's Merlin.
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Given Name: Lindsay Vere Duncan
Born: Scotland
Citizenship: Scottish
Birthday: November 7, 1950
Occupations: Actress
Years Active: 1975-present
Children: 1
Spouses: Hilton McRae
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Movies Featuring Lindsay Duncan
Prick Up Your Ears
Little Joe
Le Week-End
A Banquet
Blackbird
Made in Italy
My Zoe
City Hall
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Doctor Jekyll
Burlesque Fairytales
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Christopher and His Kind
Black Mirror: The National Anthem
The Hollow Crown: Richard II
The Sinking of the Laconia
Amish: A Secret Life
The Honourable Woman
Sherlock: His Last Vow
Churchill’s Secret
Sherlock: The Six Thatchers
Sherlock: The Lying Detective
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Close to the Enemy
My Zoe
November 1st
Dirty Tricks
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
National Theatre Live: Hansard
The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls
Frankenstein
The Reflecting Skin
Longford
G.B.H.
Body Parts
Hamilton Mattress
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Loose Connections
Dead Head
Rainy Day Women
Manifesto
The Childeater
Traffik
Grown-Ups
Truelove
Jake’s Progress
Margaret
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Shooting the Past
Oliver Twist
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
Further Up Pompeii
Career Timeline
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2019
Little Joe
Psychotherapist
My Zoe
Kathy
November 1st
Bonnie
National Theatre Live: Hansard
Diana Hesketh
1000
Black Mirror: The National Anthem
Alex Cairns
The Hollow Crown: Richard II
The Sinking of the Laconia
Elisabeth Fullwood
The Honourable Woman
Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
Sherlock: His Last Vow
Lady Smallwood
Sherlock: The Six Thatchers
Lady Smallwood
Sherlock: The Lying Detective
Lady Smallwood
Close to the Enemy
Frau Bellinghausen
G.B.H.
Barbara Douglas
Dead Head
Dana Cass
Traffik
Helen Rosshalde
Truelove
Phil
Jake’s Progress
Monica
Shooting the Past
Marilyn Truman
Oliver Twist
Elizabeth Leeford
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