Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) as Tabitha
Alice in Wonderland (2010) as Helen Kingsleigh
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) as TC-14
Short Info
Date Of Birth
November 7, 1950
Spouse
Hilton McRae
Fact
Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Lindsay Duncan is a British actress. She was born on 21 November 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the daughter of an engineer. She was educated at the independent St George’s School for Girls in Edinburgh and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her first professional role was as an understudy in a production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at the Edinburgh Festival in 1970. She subsequently worked in repertory theatre and television in the UK.
Duncan’s film debut came in 1977 with a small role in the film Julius Caesar. Her first major role was as Kate Hardie in the 1979 film Scum. She has since appeared in films such as The Hunger (1983), Dune (1984), Reuben, Reuben (1983), Restless Natives (1985), The Black Widow (1987), The Lair of the White Worm (1988), Breaking In (1989), Stepping Out (1991), Hook (1991), The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), and Wallander: Faceless Killers (2010).
Duncan has also appeared on television in such programmes as Play for Today (1977), Oppenheimer (1980), Tutti Frutti (1987), Casualty (1989), The Borrowers (1992), Outlander (2014), and Catastrophe (2015). She won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her role as Jill Tankard in the BBC sitcom Getting On (2013).
Duncan has been married to actor John McEnery since 1975. They have two sons.
General Info
Full Name
Lindsay Duncan
Date Of Birth
November 7, 1950
Place Of Birth
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Profession
Voice Actor
Education
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
Nationality
British
Family
Spouse
Hilton McRae
Children
Cal McRae
Accomplishments
Awards
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play, Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, The British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, Obie Award for Ensemble Performance, Critics' Circle Theatre A...
Nominations
British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
Movies
Le Week-End, Gifted, Alice Through the Looking Glass, About Time, Under the Tuscan Sun, Birdman, Alice in Wonderland, Mansfield Park, Last Passenger, Shooting the Past, The Reflecting Skin, Body Parts, Starter for 10, Prick Up Your Ears, An Ideal Husband, Churchill's Secret, Longford, Christopher an...
TV Shows
Rome, The Honourable Woman, Traffik, Lost in Austen, The Leftovers, Shooting the Past, Perfect Strangers, The Sinking of the Laconia, Criminal Justice, G.B.H., Close to the Enemy, Colin's Sandwich, Jake's Progress, Dead Head, A Year in Provence, Oliver Twist, Travelling Man, Mission: 2110, Get Real,...
The bulk of my work isn't commercial -there's not a lot of money hanging off it- so they don't need me to do the very scary part of publicity, which is handing over a slice of your life. One of the greatest things of not having more of a movie career is that you get to keep your privacy. When I started there wasn't this sense of access to show business. Acting was a mystery. I don't think we should demystify it
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If I had inhabited some of the characters I played, I'd probably be in jail or in an insane asylum. I take work home in the sense that I worry so much about getting it right, but I don't take my character home with me.
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You always feel in the theater as if the rest of your life has stopped, so I leave big gaps in between plays.
Facts
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Fact
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Appeared as Martha in Polly Stenham's 'That Face' at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.
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She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama.
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Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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She was awarded the 1988 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof.
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She was awarded the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2002 for her performance in "Private Lives", at London's Albery Theatre. She had also been nominated in the same category for her performance in "Mouth to Mouth". For these performances, she was also nominated for an Evening Standard Award.
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She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1987 (1986 season) for Best Actress in a New Play for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".
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For performance in a revival of "Private Lives" on Broadway, she won Tony and Drama Desk awards as best actress in a play and the Stage Actress Award at the Variety Club Showbusiness Awards (2002). She had also been Tony-nominated in the same category in 1987 for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". In both plays, she co-starred with Alan Rickman.
