Phyllis Logan | |
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Born | Phyllis Margaret Logan 11 January 1956 Paisley, Scotland |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1977-present |
Spouse | Kevin McNally (?-present) |
Phyllis Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress.
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Logan was educated at Johnstone High School in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland.[1] After school, she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with the James Bridie Gold Medal in 1977.
After graduation, she joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre.[2] She left in 1979 to work on stage in Edinburgh. She also worked regularly on Scottish television. On the BBC Scotland production, The White Bird Passes, she first met writer-director Michael Radford. In his first feature film, Another Time, Another Place in 1982, he cast her in the leading role of Janie, for which she won a Gold Award for Best Actress at the Taormina Film Festival and the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress in 1983 and the BAFTA Award for the Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film in 1984.
She has also had parts in the 1996 Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies and a regular role as Lady Jane Felsham in the television series Lovejoy. Logan provided the broadcast voice of Ingsoc in the film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Loch Ness Monster in the cartoon Freddie as F.R.O.7. She was in the radio series Coming Alive and Baggage. She played Inspector Frost's love interest in If Dogs Run Free, the very last story in the A Touch of Frost series, and marries him. She played Mrs Hughes, the housekeeper, in both first and second series of the period drama Downton Abbey (2010-11).
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1977 | Red Dress | TV movie | |
1980 | The White Bird Passes | Janie (Aged 16) | TV movie |
Shoestring | Linda | TV series (1 episode: "Mocking Bird") | |
1981 | Play for Today | Nancy Parks | TV series (1 episode: "The Good Time Girls") |
1983 | Every Picture Tells a Story | Agnes Scott | |
Another Time, Another Place | Janie | BAFTA Film Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress |
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1984 | The Dress | Julia | short |
Nineteen Eighty-Four | The Telescreen Announcer | ||
The Chain | Alison | ||
1985 | Time and the Conways | Kay | TV movie |
The Doctor and the Devils | Elizabeth Rock | ||
1986 | Scotch and Wry | Various | video |
Screen Two | Anne | TV series (1 episode: "The McGuffin") | |
L'inchiesta | Claudia Procula | ||
Lovejoy | Lady Jane Felsham | TV series (47 episodes: 1986-1994) | |
1987 | First Sight | Kathy | TV series (1 episode: "Extras") |
The Kitchen Toto | Janet Graham | ||
Bust | Sheila Walsh | TV series (6 episodes) | |
1988 | The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway | ||
Hannay | Alison Ross | TV series (1 episode: "Act of Riot") | |
1989 | The Angry Earth | Mary Penrys Jones | |
Screen Two | Alison | TV series (2 episodes) | |
And a Nightingale Sang | Helen | TV movie | |
Goldeneye | Ann Fleming | TV movie | |
1990 | Il Sole Buio | Attorney Camilla Staffa | |
1991 | Screen One | Dora | TV series (1 episode: "Happy Feet") |
The Play on One | Dr. Ruth Kovacs | TV series (2 episodes) | |
1992 | Freddie as F.R.O.7. | Nessie | voice |
1993 | Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life | Frau Bunofsky | short |
Soft Top Hard Shoulder | Karla | ||
Silent Cries | Nancy Muir | ||
Love and Reason | Lou Larson | TV mini-series (3 episodes) | |
1995 | Kavanagh QC | Samantha Fisher | TV series (1 episode: "A Family Affair") |
The Big One | Mrs Wilde | TV movie | |
Chiller | Anna Spalinsky | TV series (1 episode: "Here Comes The Mirror Man") | |
1996 | Pie in the Sky | Det. Supt. Chalmers | TV series (1 episode: "Coddled Eggs") |
Secrets & Lies | Monica Purley | ||
Inspector Morse | Julia Stevens | TV series (1 episode: "The Daughters of Cain") | |
1997 | Shooting Fish | Mrs Ross | |
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Elizabeth Leaming | TV series (1 episode: "Sacrifice") | |
1998 | Invasion: Earth | Squadron Leader Helen Knox | TV series (1 episode: "The Last War") |
1999 | Midsomer Murders | Kate Merrill | TV series (1 episode: "Strangler's Wood") |
Holby City | Muriel McKendrick | TV series (8 episodes) | |
Rab C. Nesbitt | Jenny Welthorpe | TV series (1 episode: "Commons") | |
All the King's Men | Mary Beck | TV movie | |
Heartbeat | Julia Kendall | TV series (1 episode: "Stag at Bay") | |
2000 | Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) | Harriet Banks-Smith | TV series (1 episode: "The Best Years of Your Death |
Hope and Glory | Annie Gilbert | TV series (6 episodes) | |
2001 | Crust | Bill's Girlfriend | |
NCS: Manhunt | Inspector Anne Warwick | TV movie | |
2002 | Cheap Rate Gravity | Elsie | short |
Dickens | Georgina Hogarth | TV series (1 episode: "Terror to the End") | |
Fields of Gold | Rachel Greenlaw | TV movie | |
The Real Jane Austen | Mrs Austen | TV documentary | |
2003 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Miriam Whitelaw | TV series (1 episode: "Playing for the Ashes") |
Alibi | Linda Brentwood | TV movie | |
Agatha Christie's Poirot | Nurse Hopkins | TV series (1 episode: "Sad Cypress") | |
2004 | Out of the Shadows | Liz | short |
Dalziel and Pascoe | Det. Sgt. Jenny Ettrick | TV series (1 episode: "A Game of Soldiers) | |
Murder in Suburbia | Wendy Lloyd | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.6") | |
Silent Witness | Helen Wharton | TV series (2 episodes) | |
2005 | Beneath the Skin | DCI Grace Shilling | TV movie |
Spooks | Diana Jewell | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #4.8") | |
2006 | Missing | Karen Foster | TV movie |
Sea of Souls | Elaine | TV series (1 episode: "Sleeper") | |
Spooks | Diana Jewell | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #5.10") | |
Heartbeat | Diane Bell | TV series (1 episode: "Get Back") | |
2007 | Trial and Retribution | Anna Wildsmith | TV series (1 episode: "Curriculum Vitae: Part 1") |
2008 | Honest | Jenny | TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.4") |
Taggart | Kathy | TV series (1 episode: "Trust") | |
The Hero's Journey | short | ||
New Tricks | Dr. Mathieson | TV series (1 episode: "Mad Dogs") | |
The Royal | Lady George Fawcett | TV series (1 episode: "Pastures New") | |
2009 | Heartbeat | Rose Brown | TV series (1 episode: "The War of the Roses") |
2010 | Wallander | Inga Wallander | TV series (1 episode: "The Fifth Woman") |
Silent Witness | Jennifer Mears | TV series (2 episodes) | |
A Touch of Frost | Christine Moorhead | TV series (2 episodes) | |
Downton Abbey | Mrs Hughes | TV series (15 episodes) | |
Day of the Flowers | Brenda | post-production |