Lindsay Duncan
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| Lindsay Duncan | |
 Lindsay Duncan as Servilia Caepionis in Rome. |
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| Birth name | Lindsay Vere Duncan |
| Born | November 7, 1950 (age 56) Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Hilton McRae |
| Notable roles | Servilia Caepionis in Rome, 2005, Rose Harbinson in Starter for Ten, 2006 . |
| Tony Awards | |
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play 2002 Private Lives. |
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Lindsay Vere Duncan (born 7 November 1950 in Edinburgh) is a Tony Award winning Scottish actress.
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[edit] Biography
Lyndsay Duncan studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama and she 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).
In the 1990s, Lyndsay Duncan managed to obtain choice roles that put her on prestigious London stages and cinemas, such as the 1999 TV version of Oliver Twist, in which she portrays Elizabeth Leeford, a woman so evil that the devil himself would fear her. 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.
Lindsay Duncan played Servilia Caepionis in the 2005 HBO-BBC series Rome and she starred as Rose Harbinson in Starter for Ten.
She is a noted stage actress, winning the Tony Award for Private Lives.
[edit] Personal Life
- Lindsay Duncan is married to the British actor Hilton McRae. They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Longford (2007)
- Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
- Perfect Strangers (2001) (TV)
- Oliver Twist (1999)
- Mansfield Park (1999)
- Shooting the Past (1999) (TV)
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) (voice)
- An Ideal Husband (1999)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1996)
- City Hall (1996)
- A Year in Provence (1993)
- G.B.H. (1991)
- The Reflecting Skin (1990)
- Traffik (1989)
- Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
