Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Infobox actor



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birthname = Lindsay Vere Duncan
birthdate = Birth date and age|1950|11|7|df=yes
birthplace = Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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tonyawards = Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
2002 "Private Lives".
spouse = Hilton McRae

Lindsay Vere Duncan (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish Tony Award-winning actress. She is a noted stage actress, winning the Tony Award for "Private Lives".

Personal life

Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to a father who served in the army for 21 years. [ [http://arts.independent.co.uk/film/features/article321917.ece Lindsay Duncan: When in Rome... - Features, Film & TV - Independent.co.uk ] ] She is married to fellow Scottish actor Hilton McRae. They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991.

Career

She 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.

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.

Most recently 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 award-winning TV film Longford. On the 9th April 2008, it was announced that Duncan was to play Margaret Thatcher in an upcoming BBC film about the former prime minister's final year in power. She will begin filming in the summer.

Filmography

*"Prick Up Your Ears" (1987)
*"Traffik" (1989)
*"The Reflecting Skin" (1990)
*"G.B.H." (1991)
*"A Year in Provence" (1993)
*"City Hall" (1996)
*"A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1996)
*"An Ideal Husband" (1999)
*"" (1999) (voice)
*"Shooting the Past" (1999) (TV)
*"Mansfield Park" (1999)
*"Oliver Twist" (1999)
*"Perfect Strangers" (2001) (TV)
*"Under the Tuscan Sun" (2003)
*"AfterLife" (2003)
*"Starter for 10" (2006)
*"Rome" (2006-2007) (TV)
*"Longford" (2007) (TV)
* "Criminal Justice" (2008) (TV)
*"Thatcher" (2009) (TV)

References

External links

*imdb|0242026
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7338433.stm] Duncan to play Thatcher
* [http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/stratfordians/stdunli.htm Lindsay Duncan] from "A Dictionary of the Royal Shakespeare Company" by Simon Trowbridge

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NAME= Duncan, Lindsay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Duncan, Lindsay Vere
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actress
DATE OF BIRTH= 7 November, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH= Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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