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Lindsay Duncan
Duncan after a performance of John Gabriel Borkman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Born
Lindsay Vere Duncan

(1950-11-07) 7 November 1950 (age 74)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
OccupationActress
Years active1975–present
SpouseHilton McRae

Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she won two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her performance in Les Liaisons dangereuses (1985–1986) and Private Lives (2001–2002), and she starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her most famous roles on television include: Servilia of the Junii in the HBO/BBC/RAI series Rome (2005–2007), and Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special ‘The Waters of Mars’. On film she voiced the android TC-14 in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and she played Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010). She was awarded a CBE in 1999 for services to drama.

Personal life

Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in a working class family;[1] her father had served in the army for 21 years before becoming a civil servant.[2] Her parents moved to Leeds, then Birmingham when she was still a child. Duncan attended King Edwards VI High School for Girls of Birmingham through a scholarship.[3] Despite her origins, she speaks with a Received Pronunciation accent.[1] As of 2011, her only role with a Scottish accent is AfterLife (2004).[4]

She is married to fellow Scottish actor Hilton McRae, whom she met in 1985 during the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Troilus and Cressida.[5] They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991.[6] Duncan's father died in a car accident when she was 15.[4] Her mother was affected by Alzheimer's disease and died in 1994; she inspired to Sharman Macdonald the play The Winter Guest (1995), which was later adapted to film by Alan Rickman.[7]

Duncan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama in the 2009 Birthday Honours.[8]

Career

Duncan's first contact with theatre was through school productions.[2] She became friends with future playwright Kevin Elyot, who attended the neighbouring King Edward's School for boys, and followed him to Bristol, where he read Drama at University.[2] She did a number of odd jobs while staging her own production of Joe Orton's Funeral Games.[2] She joined London's Central School of Speech and Drama at age 21.[6] She first appeared in two small roles in Molière's Dom Juan at the Hampstead Theatre in 1976. She then spent several years doing rep in East Anglia before joining the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. In 1978 she returned to London in Plenty by David Hare at the National. An early television appearance was in a commercial for Head & Shoulders shampoo.[9] In 1982 she made her first appearance on stage in the United States as Lady Nijo, a 13th century Japanese concubine, in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, which was reprised at The Public Theater in New York after its creation at the Royal Court in London. She won her first award, an Obie, for her performance.[10] The next year she took her first major role on film in Richard Eyre's Loose Connections with Stephen Rae.[2] At the same time she worked in television productions, including On Approval (1982), Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) and Dead Head (1985).

In 1985 she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for the production of Troilus and Cressida, in which she played Helen of Troy.[11] The year after she created the role of the Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a play by Christopher Hampton after the French novel by Choderlos de Laclos. The play opened at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, then transferred at the Ambassadors in the West End, and later on Broadway. For her performance she was nominated for a Tony and won the Olivier Award for Best Actress and a Theatre World Award. She was however replaced by Glenn Close for Dangerous Liaisons, the film adaptation of the play; similarly John Malkovitch was selected for the role of Valmont instead of Duncan's co-star Alan Rickman.[12]

In 1988 Duncan won an Evening Standard Award for her role of Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. At the same time she became a regular in Harold Pinter's plays and Alan Bleasdale's et Stephen Poliakoff's series.[13] She went for a second season with the RSC in 1994–1995 for A Midsummer Night's Dream in which she played the double role of Hippolyta and Titania.[14] She went on tour in the United States with the rest of the cast, but back and neck pains forced her to be replaced by Emily Button from January to March 1997.[15] Impressed by her performance in David Mamet's The Cryptogram (1994), Al Pacino asked Duncan to play the role of his wife in City Hall (1996) by Harold Becker.[4]

To please her young son, a Star Wars fan, Duncan applied for the role of Anakin Skywalker's mother in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), but was not selected; she finally accepted to voice android TC-14.[2] She reunited with Alan Rickman in a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives (2001–2002), and won a Tony Award for Best Actress and a second Olivier Award for her performance as Amanda Prynne — she was also nominated the same year for her role in Mouth To Mouth by Kevin Elyot.[16]

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.[17][18] 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 Liaisons dangereuses co-stars Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw.[19]

She also starred in the original London run of Polly Stenham's play That Face at the Royal Court co-starring Matt Smith and directed by Jeremy Herrin. She did the narration for the Matt Lucas and David Walliams 2010/2011 fly-on-the-wall mockumentary series Come Fly with Me on the BBC.

Duncan will feature in 2012 in four BBC2 productions of historical plays by Shakespeare.[20] She is to play the Duchess of York in the first film, Richard II, with David Suchet as the Duke of York, Patrick Stewart as John of Gaunt, et Ben Whishaw as Richard II.[21] She is also to play Queen Annis in the fourth season of BBC1's series Merlin.[22]

Theatre

Year Title Role Notes
1976 Dom Juan, Molière Charlotte/Violetta Hampstead Theatre, London
1976 The Script Hampstead Theatre, London
1976 Zack, Harold Brighouse Sally Teale Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1976 The Rivals, Sheridan Lucy Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1976 The Prince of Homburg, Heinrich von Kleist Natalie Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. British premiere of the play.
1977 The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan Anne Cambridge Arts Theatre
1977 The The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Ronald Harwood Margaret Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. After a novel by Evelyn Waugh.
1977 What the Butler Saw, Joe Orton Geraldine Barclay Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1977 The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder Gladys Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1977 Present Laughter, Noel Coward Daphne Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1977 Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Viola Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1978 Plenty, David Hare Dorcas National Theatre, London
1978 Comings and Goings, Mike Stott Hilary Hampstead Theatre, London
1979 The Recruiting Officer, George Farquhar Sylvia Bristol Old Vic/Ediburgh Festival
1980 Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare Portia Riverside Studios, London
1980 The Provoked Wife, John Vanbrugh Belinda Hampstead Theatre, London
1981 Incident at Tulse Hill, Robert East Rosemary Hampstead Theatre, London. Directed by Harold Pinter.
1982 Top Girls, Caryl Churchill Lady Nijo/Win Royal Court Theatre, Londres then Jo Papps Public Theater, New York
Won – Obie Award.
1984 Progress, Doug Lucie Ronnie Bush Theatre, London
1985–1986 Troilus and Cressida, William Shakespeare Helen Royal Shakespeare Company: Stratford-upon-Avon/Barbican Theatre
1985–1986 Les Liaisons dangereuses, adapted by Christopher Hampton Marquise de Merteuil Royal Shakespeare Company: Ambassadors Theatre, Londres then Music Box Theatre, New York.
Won – Olivier Award for Best Actress and a Theatre World Award; nominated – Tony Award for Best Actress.
1985–1986 The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare Mistress Ford Royal Shakespeare Company: Stratford-upon-Avon/Barbican Theatre
1988 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams Maggie National Theatre, London
Won – Evening Standard Theatre Award
1988 Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler Hampstead Theatre, London
1990 Bérénice, Jean Racine Bérénice National Theatre, Londres
1993 Three Hotels, Jon Robin Baitz Barbara Boyle Tricycle Theatre, Londres
1994 The Cryptogram, David Mamet Donny Ambassadors Theatre, Londres
1995 A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare Titania/Hippolyta Royal Shakespeare Company: Barbican Theatre, Londres then The Lunt Fontanne, New York, afterwards adapted to film
1996 Ashes to Ashes, Harold Pinter Rebecca Gramercy Theater, New York
1997 The Homecoming, Harold Pinter Ruth National Theatre, London
2000 Celebration/The Room, Harold Pinter Prue/Rose (double bill) Almeida Theatre, London, then the Pinter Festival New York
2001 Mouth to Mouth, Kevin Elyot Laura Albery Theatre, London
Won – Critics' Circle Theatre Award; nominated – Evening Standard Award
2001 Private Lives, Noel Coward Amanda Prynne Albery Theatre, London, then Broadway
Won – Olivier Award for Best Actress, Tony Award for Best Actress, Critics' Circle Theatre Award, Drama Desk Award and Variety Club Showbusiness Award; nominated – Evening Standard Award
2007 That Face, Polly Stenham Martha Royal Court Theatre/Duke of York's Theatre
Nominated – Oliver Award for Best Actress
2010 John Gabriel Borkman, Henrik Ibsen Ella Rentheim Abbey Theatre, Dublin, then Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1985 Loose Connections, Richard Eyre Sally
1985 Samson and Delilah, Mark Peploe Alice Nankervis Short, after a novel by D.H. Lawrence
1987 Prick Up Your Ears, Stephen Frears Anthea Lahr
1988 Manifesto (film), Dušan Makavejev Lily Sachor After a novel by Émile Zola
1989 The Child Eater, Jonathan Tammuz Eirwen Short
1990 The Reflecting Skin, Philip Ridley Dolphin Blue Catalonian International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
1991 Body Parts, Eric Red Dr Agatha-Webb After a novel by Boileau-Narcejac
1996 City Hall, Harold Becker Sydney Pappas
1996 A Midsummer's Night Dream, Adrian Noble Hippolyta / Titania From the 1994–1995 Royal Shakespeare Company stage production
1999 An Ideal Husband, Oliver Parker Lady Markby After the An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, George Lucas TC-14 Voice
1999 Expelling the Demon, Devlin Crow Women Voice, short
1999 Mansfield Park, Patricia Rozema Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram After the novel by Jane Austen
2003 Under the Tuscan Sun, Audrey Wells Katherine After the novel by Frances Mayes
2004 AfterLife, Alison Peebles May Brogan Bratislava International Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Bowmore Scottish Screen Award
2004 The Queen of Sheba's Pearls, Colin Nutley Audrey Pretty
2006 Starter for Ten, Tom Vaughan Rose Harbinson After the novel by David Nicholls
2010 Burlesque Fairytales, Susan Luciani Ice Queen
2010 Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton Helen Kingsleigh After Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1975 Up Pompeii! Scrubba Series (BBC), special episode ‘Further Up Pompeii!’
1976 One-Upmanship Series (BBC), episode ‘Woomanship’
1977  The New Avengers Jane Series, episode ‘The Angels of Death’
1979 The Winkler Diane ITV Playhouse
1980 Dick Turpin Catherine Langford Series, episode ‘Deadlier Than the Male’
1980 Grown-Ups Christine Butcher BBC2 Playhouse, directed by Mike Leigh
1982  Muck and Brass Jean Torrode Series, episodes ‘Public Relations’ and ‘Our Green and Pleasant Land’
1982 On Approval Helen Hale BBC Play of the Month
1983 Reilly, Ace of Spies The Plugger Mini series, episode ‘After Moscow’
1984 Rainy Day Women Karen Miller BBC Play for Today
1984 Travelling Man Andrea Series, episodes ‘First Leg’, ‘The Collector’, ‘The Watcher’, ‘Grasser’, ‘Moving On’, ‘Sudden Death’
1986 Dead Head Dana Series, episodes ‘Why me?’, ‘Anything for England’, ‘The Patriot’
1986 Kit Curran Pamela Scott Series, all episodes
1989 These Foolish Things Gutrune Day BBC The Play on One
1989 Traffik Helen Rosshalde Mini-series, written by Simon Moore, all episodes
1988–1990 Colin's Sandwich Rosemary Series, episodes ‘Enough’ (1988) and ‘Zanzibar’ (1990)
1990 TECX Laura Pellin Series, épisode ‘Getting Personnel’
1991 The Storyteller: Greek Myths Medea Series, episode ‘Theseus & the Minotaur’
1991 Screenplay Kath Peachey Series, episode ‘Redemption’
1991 G.B.H.  Barbara Douglas Mini-series, witten by Alan Bleasdale, episodes ‘Only Here on a Message’, ‘Send a Message to Michael’, ‘Message Sent’, ‘Message received’, ‘Message Understood’, ‘Over and Out’
Nominated – TV BAFTA for Best Actress
1993 A Year in Provence Annie Mayle Miniseries, all episodes. After Peter Mayle's book.
1994 The Rector's Wife Anne Bouverie Series, all episodes. After the novel by Joanna Trollope.
1995 Just William Lady Walton Series, episode ‘William Clears the Slums’
1995 Jake's Progress Monica Miniseries, episodes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6
1999 The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Lady Bellaston Miniseries, episodes 1.3, 1.4, 1.5. After the novel by Henry Fielding.
1998 Get Real Louise Series, all episodes
1999 Shooting the Past Marilyn Truman Telefilm (BBC), written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Nominated – TV BAFTA for Best Actress
1999 Oliver Twist Elizabeth Leeford Miniseries, all episodes. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale after Charles Dickens' novel.
2000 Dirty Tricks Alison Telefilm
2000 Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings Pam Christmas special, segment ‘Women Institute’
2001 Perfect Strangers Alice Series, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff
2001 Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders Narrator's Voice Telefilm
2005 Agatha Christie's Poirot Lady Tamplin Series, episode ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’
2005–2006 Spooks Angela Wells Episodes ‘Diana’ and ‘Gas and Oil, Part One’
2005–2007 Rome Servilia of the Junii Series, 18 episodes
2006 Longford Lady Longford Telefilm
2007 Frankenstein Professor Jane Pretorius Telefilm
2008 Criminal Justice Alison Slaughter Miniseries, episodes 3–5
2008 Lost in Austen Lady Catherine de Bourgh Miniseries, episodes 3 and 4
2009 Margaret Margaret Thatcher Nominated – Scottish BAFTA Award for Best Actress
2009 Doctor Who Adelaide Brooke Special episode: "The Waters of Mars"
2009 Margot Ninette de Valois Telefilm (BBC)
2010 Agatha Christie's Marple Marina Gregg Episode: "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"
2010 Mission: 2110 Cybele Children game show
2010–2011 Come Fly with Me Narrator (voice) Series, all episodes
2011 The Sinking of the Laconia Elisabeth Fullwood Miniseries (BBC), all episodes. Written by Alan Bleasdale.
2011 Christopher and His Kind Kathleen Isherwood Telefilm, after the autobiography Christopher Isherwood's autobiography

References

  1. ^ a b John Walsh (18 January 1997). "The stainless steel queen". The Independent. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Kevin Jackson (23 October 2005). "Lindsay Duncan: When in Rome". The Independent. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
  3. ^ Tony Collins (7 May 2009). "Actress Lindsay Duncan helps Birmingham school celebrate". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  4. ^ a b c Anna Burnside (26 June 2005). "The rose who showed her thorns". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  5. ^ Matt Wolf (5 May 2011). "Hilton McRae on Sharing the London Stage with Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow". Broadway.com. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  6. ^ a b Harriet Lane (23 April 2007). "Bad girl. Lindsay Duncan talks to Harriet Lane about her new play". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  7. ^ Clare Bayley (January 2005). "Listening to the teenager within". The Independent. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  8. ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 13 June 2009.
  9. ^ "Thames Adverts, 25th January 1979 (1)". Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  10. ^ "Lindsay Duncan". Masterclass, Theatre Royal Haymarket. Retrieved 25 June 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. ^ "The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida". Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
  12. ^ Brian Viner (May 2001). "Lindsay Duncan: The thinking man's femme fatale". The Independent. Retrieved 25 June 2010. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ Emine Saner (14 February 2009). "Saturday Interviews – Lindsay Duncan". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2011. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  14. ^ "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Royal Shakespeare Company. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  15. ^ "The Royal Shakespeare Company's U.S. Tour - [[Robert Gillespie]]'s Diary". Jane Network Productions. Retrieved 26 June 2010. {{cite web}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  16. ^ "Lindsay Duncan's double-nomination triumph". Officiallondontheatre.co.uk. {{cite web}}: Text "dateJanuary 2002" ignored (help).
  17. ^ "Lindsay Duncan: I'm thrilled to be Doctor Who's new assistant". The Daily Record. 18 February 2009. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
  18. ^ "Lindsay Duncan to star in second Doctor Who Special of 2009". Retrieved 18 February 2009.
  19. ^ http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats_on/event/1299
  20. ^ Vanessa Thorpe (29 May 2011). "Shakespeare gets the starring role in cultural celebration alongside Olympics". The Observer. Retrieved 20 June 2011.
  21. ^ Mike Watkins (May 2011). "BBC Two to air Shakespeare works Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V". ATV Guide. Retrieved 20 June 2011. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  22. ^ Staff. "Lindsay Duncan's resume". Dalzell and Beresford. Retrieved 20 June 2011.

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