Lindsay Duncan

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Lindsay Duncan was born on November 7, 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Duncan trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama.  Her first stage appearances were at Southwold and Crewe before going to the Hampstead Theatre Club.  She subsequently joined the Manchester Royal Exchange Company where her roles included Viola in Twelfth Night, Daphne in Present Laughter, Margaret in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. She has also appeared in Plenty at the National Theatre, The Deep Blue Sea with the Cambridge Theatre Company and recently as Sylvia in The Recruiting Officer at the Bristol Old Vic and the Edinburgh Festival. 

Duncan is married to actor Hilton McRae and has a son Callum who was born in 1990.

 

 

Film

Starter For Ten~2006 - Rose Harbison, Eve's mother

The Queen of Sheba's Pearls~2005 - Aunt Audrey

Under the Tuscan Sun~2003 

Letters to a Street Child~1999 - School Child

Mansfield Park~1999 - Mrs. Price/Lady Bertram

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace~1999 - voice of TC-14 (played physically by John Fensom)

Ideal Husband, An~1999 - Lady Markby

Midsummer Night's Dream, A~1996 - Hippolyta/Titania

City Hall~1996 - Sydney Pappas

Body Parts~1991 - Dr. Agatha Webb

Reflecting Skin, The~1990 - Dolphin Blue

Manifesto~1988 - Lily Sachor

Prick Up Your Ears~1987 - Anthea Lahr

Loose Connections~1983 - Sally

 

TV

Longford~2006 - Lady Longford

Spooks~2002 - Angela Wells in:

    One (#5.1) 9/17/06

    Diana (#4.10) 11/10/05

Poirot~1989 - Lady Tamplin in The Mystery of the Blue Train (#12.1) 12/11/05

Rome~2005 - Servilia (see Actor Connections - TV)

Afterlife~2003 - May 

Hamilton Mattress~2001  (voice) - Beryl

Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders~2001  - Narrator

Perfect Strangers~2001  - Alice

Dirty Tricks~2000  - Alison

New Girl In Town~2000

Oliver Twist~1999 (mini)  - Elizabeth Leeford

Ruby~1997 - Herself (# 3.11) 10/5/99

Shooting the Past~1999  - Marilyn Truman

Get Real UK~1998  - Louise

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, The~1997 (mini)  - Lady Bellaston

Jake's Progress~1995 (mini)  - Monica

Rector's Wife, The~1993  - Anna Bouverie

Year in Provence, A~1991 (mini)  - Annie Mayle (see Actor Connections - TV)

Redemption~1991  - Kath Peachey

GBH~1991  - Barbara Douglas, aka 'Babah' Critchley

Colin's Sandwich~1988 - Rosemary in 

    Zanzibar 1/26/90

    Enough 11/1/88

Jim Henson's Storyteller: Greek Myths, The~1990 (mini) - Medea in Theseus & the Minotaur 1990

TECX~1990 - Laura Pellin in Getting Personnel 1990

Traffik~1989 (mini)  - Helen Rosshalde

Dead Head~1986 (mini)  - Dana (see Actor Connections - TV)

Rainy Day Women~1984  - Karen Miller

Play for Today~1984 - Karen Miller - Rainy Day Women  1984
Masterpiece Theatre~1983 - Helen Hale in On Approval 1983
Reilly: The Ace of Spies~1983 (mini)  - The Plugger

On Approval~1982  - Helen Hale

Iron Frog, The~1980 - (BBC TV)

Grown-Ups~1980  - Christine Butcher, school teacher

Dick Turpin~1979 - Catherine in Deadlier Than the Male 1980

New Avengers, The~1976 - Jane in Angels of Death (# 2.2) 9/16/77 (see Actor Connections - TV)

Winkler, The

 

Theater

That Face~2007 - Martha (Royal Court - Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London, UK)

Old Times~2007? tentative - (Roundabout Theatre, London)
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg~2002 -

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof~2001 - Maggie the Cat

Don Juan~2001 - (Hampstead Theatre Club, UK)

Private Lives~2001/2 - Amanda (London and New York)

Mouth to Mouth~2001 - Laura

Celebration~2000 - Prue (Almeida Theatre, London, UK)

Room, The~2000 - Rose Huggs (The Almeida Theatre, London, UK)

Four Repertoire Booklets~1997 - (National Theatre, UK)

Homecoming, The~1997 - (The Aldwych, London, UK)

Midsummer Nights Dream~1996 - Hippolyta/Titania

Ashes to Ashes~1996 - Rebecca (The Royal Court Upstairs, The Ambassadors, UK)

Cryptogram, The~1994 - Donny

Six Repertoire Booklets~1990/1 - (National Theatre, UK)

Merry Wives of Windsor~1988 - 

Seven Repertoire Leaflets~1988 - (National Theatre, UK)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses~1986 - La Marquise de Merteuil (Royal Shakespeare Company, UK)

Troilus and Cressida~1985 - Helen

Prince of Homberg~1982 - Princess Natalie (Cottsloe Theatre, UK)

Three Repertoire Leaflets~1981/2 - (National Theatre, UK)

Julius Caesar~1980 - Portia (Riverside Studios, UK) (see Actor Connections - Theatre)

Provok'd Wife, The~1980 - (Lyttelton, UK)

Nine Repertoire Leaflets~1980 - (National Theatre, UK) 

Plenty~1978 - (National Theatre, UK)

Present Laughter~1977 - Daphne Stillington (Manchester Royal Exchange Company, UK)

Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold~1977 - Margaret (Manchester Royal Exchange Company, UK)

Comings and Goings~ - (Hampstead Theatre Club, UK)

Twelfth Night~ - Viola (Manchester Royal Exchange Company, UK)

The Deep Blue Sea~ - (Cambridge Theatre Company, UK)

The Recruiting Officer~ - Sylvia (Bristol Old Vic and The Edinburgh Festival, UK)

 

Live Appearances/Performances

Susan Smith Blackburn Prize~2006 - Judge 

Anti-War Special Event~2003 -- A reading of Lysistrata: The Common Chorus Part 1  by actors in over 40 countries, over 700 readers

 

Audio Books

City of Gems~1994 (narrator)

Voices in Summer~1994  (narrator)

Pride and Prejudice~19  (reader)

Marrying the Mistress~ (reader)

 

Radio

Les Liaisons Dangereuses~ - La Marquise de Merteuil

Three Women~2000 - 

 

CDs

The Essential Shakespeare - Live~2005 - Janet Dale and Lindsay Duncan in The Merry Wives of Windsor~1988 (see Actor Connections - CDs)

 

Awards, Honors and Nominations

BAFTA:

Nom 2002 Best Actress for Perfect Strangers

Nom 2000 Best Actress for Shooting the Past

Nom 1992 Best Actress for GBH

Catalonian International Film Festival:

Rec'd 1990 Best Actress for The Reflecting Skin

Critic's Circle:

Rec'd 2002 Best Actress for Private Lives

Drama Desk Award:

Nom 2002 Best Actress for Private Lives

Nom 1999 Best Actress in a Play for Ashes to Ashes

Drama League Award:

Nom 2002 Outstanding Performer for Private Lives

Nom 1999 Best Actress for Ashes to Ashes

Evening Standard Award:

Nom 2001 Best Actress Mouth to Mouth

Nom 1988 Best Actress for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Olivier Award (Society of West End Theatres SWET Award):

Rec'd 2002 Best Actress for Private Lives

Nom 2002 Best Actress for Mouth to Mouth

Rec'd 1986 Best Actress for Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Showbusiness Award:

Rec'd 2002 for Best Stage Actress

Theatre World Award:

Rec'd 1987 Best Actress in Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Tony Awards:

Rec'd 2002 Best Actress for Private Lives 

Nom 1987 Best Actress in a Play for Les Liaisons Dangereuses

 

Miscellany

Duncan's husband Hilton McRae was in Return of the Jedi (Arvel Crynyd)

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