Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Nascimento : 1950-11-07, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish stage and television actress, and winner of a Tony Award for Private Lives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lindsay Duncan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan

Filmes

Last Call
Kate
A desperate mother is trying to reconnect with her son. Navigating an obvious void, she will finally have the chance to ask the questions that have haunted her past, and will decide her future.
A Banquet
June
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
De Volta à Itália
Kate
Um artista boêmio herda de sua mulher uma antiga casa da família na Toscana e aproveita a oportunidade da venda da propriedade para acertar sua relação com o filho.
Minha Zoe, Minha Vida
Kathy
Isabelle é uma geneticista que está se recuperando do término de um relacionamento problemático. Ela também é responsável por cuidar da filha de sete anos, Zoe, com a ajuda de seu ex-marido, James. Após uma tragédia atingir a família, Isabelle fará de tudo para proteger sua Zoe.
National Theatre Live: Hansard
It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-sport.
November 1st
Bonnie
A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.
Little Joe
Psychotherapist
Alice é uma jovem mãe solo e uma dedicada criadora de plantas em uma empresa focada em desenvolver novas espécies. Ela é responsável por criar uma flor que não só é bela, mas também tem incríveis habilidades terapêuticas. Se bem cuidada, a planta deixa seu dono feliz. Quando Alice desobedece regras da empresa e leva uma das flores para seu filho, ela começa a perceber que sua criação pode não ser tão benévola quanto parece.
A Despedida
Liz
Neste retrato otimista da morte, uma mãe reúne sua família para alguns dias na praia após decidir encerrar sua batalha com uma doença. Mas nem todos estão tão tranquilos com a despedida. Com as vencedoras do Oscar Susan Sarandon e Kate Winslet.
Um Laço de Amor
Evelyn Adler
Frank, um homem solteiro, cria sozinho sua sobrinha Mary, uma criança-prodígio. Quando a garota se destaca na escola por causa de suas habilidades com a matemática, a avó dela planeja um futuro que pode separá-la do tio.
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Maude
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Alice Através do Espelho
Helen Kingsleigh
Alice retorna após uma longa viagem pelo mundo, e reencontra a mãe. No casarão de uma grande festa, ela percebe a presença de um espelho mágico. A jovem atravessa o objeto e retorna ao País das Maravilhas, onde descobre que o Chapeleiro Maluco corre risco de morte após fazer uma descoberta sobre seu passado. Para salvar o amigo, Alice deve conversar com o Tempo para voltar às vésperas de um evento traumático e mudar o destino do Chapeleiro. Nesta aventura, também descobre um trauma que separou as irmãs Rainha Branca e Rainha Vermelha.
Churchill's Secret
Clemmie Churchill
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Birdman ou (A Inesperada Virtude da Ignorância)
Tabitha Dickinson
Esperando ser levado a sério, Riggan Thomson, uma estrela envelhecida conhecida por interpretar um super-herói, tenta organizar uma peça da Broadway. Mas com as dificuldades da produção e a aproximação da noite de abertura, ele deve confrontar sua família, sua carreira e seu ego.
O Último Passageiro
Elaine Middleton
O médico Lewis Shaler segue sua rotina e pega um trem como em todos os outros dias, mas logo percebe que os freios não estão funcionando e que o segurança desapareceu misteriosamente. Agora, ele e os demais passageiros precisam se salvar de um vingativo sociopata que assumiu o controle do veículo.
Um Fim de Semana em Paris
Meg Burrows
Nick e Meg Burrows retornam a Paris, a cidade onde passaram a lua de mel, para comemorar seu 30º aniversário de casamento e redescobrir um pouco de romance em seu casamento de longa duração. O filme acompanha o casal à medida que as tensões há muito estabelecidas em seu casamento irrompem de maneiras bem-humoradas e muitas vezes dolorosas.
Lawless
Lady Justice MacNeil
From the cells in the basement to the judge's chambers, Lawless offers a backstage pass to the inner workings of a modern court. Suranne Jones stars as a brand new judge battling to keep her head above the water in the murky depths of the justice system.
Dá Tempo ao Tempo
Mum
Aos 21 anos, Tim Lake descobre que consegue viajar no tempo… Após mais uma insatisfatória festa de Ano Novo, o pai de Tim revela-lhe que os homens da sua família sempre tiveram a capacidade de viajar no tempo. Tim não pode mudar a história, mas consegue alterar o que acontece ou aconteceu na sua própria vida - então, decide tornar o seu mundo um lugar melhor… arranjando uma namorada. Infelizmente, esse feito tornou-se mais complicado do que previa. Ao mudar-se de Cornwall para Londres, para estudar advocacia, Tim finalmente conhece a belíssima, mas insegura, Mary. Apaixonam-se, mas um lamentável incidente nas viagens pelo tempo faz com que ele nunca a tenha conhecido. Assim, voltam a encontrar-se pela primeira vez, várias vezes, até que, finalmente, depois de muita astúcia a viajar no tempo, ele conquista o seu coração.
Amish: A Secret Life
Narrator (voice)
Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the 'Old Order' Amish community in Pennsylvania,whose church forbids all technology - though Dave gets lifts to work in a car and the couple,by allowing themselves to be filmed,risk the wrath of church elders. Having outlined their traditional life-style to camera Miriam persuades several friends to be happily filmed and it becomes clear that the Lapps and other,younger Amish,believe that,having been rebaptized to allow a more open evangelical approach - risking excommunication thereby - they feel the need for a change in the community. The film ends as the family consolidates its dream to own their own farm.
Christopher e seus Amigos
Kathleen Isherwood
Isherwood foge de sua vida reprimida na Inglaterra e se joga na decadente - mas febril - Berlim dos anos 30, pré-Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Alice no País das Maravilhas
Helen Kingsleigh
A Alice de 19 anos de idade, que regressa ao excêntrico mundo que encontrou pela primeira vez quando era criança reunindo-se assim com os seus amigos de infância: o Coelho Branco, Tweedledee e Tweedledum, a Ratazana, a Lagarta, o Gato Cheshire, e claro, o Chapeleiro Louco. Alice embarca numa fantástica viagem para encontrar o seu verdadeiro destino e acabar com o reino de terror da Rainha Vermelha.
Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
Burlesque Fairytales
Ice Queen
A fairytale thriller film set one night in a 1930's London theatre where all is not what it seems.
Margot
Madam
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
Doctor Who: As Águas de Marte
Captain Adelaide Brooke
In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.
Margaret
Margaret Thatcher
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
Frankenstein
Jane Pretorius
Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death.
Longford
Lady Elizabeth Longford
1965, Grã-Bretanha. Frank Pakenham recebe uma carta de Myra Hindley, condenada à prisão perpétua por assassinato. Católico fervoroso, vai visitá-la. Mas o inesperado elo que cria com ela porá sua fé à prova.
Garoto Nota 10
Rose Harbison
Inglaterra de Tatcher, 1985. Brian Jackson (James McAvoy), desde sempre obcecado em adquirir mais e mais conhecimento, passou a infância assistindo o “Desafio Universitário” na televisão. Agora aluno da Universidade de Bristol, ele encara a oportunidade de participar realmente do show e mostrar tudo que sabe. Mas nem só de estudos vive o homem e Brian sonha também com Alice (Alice Eve).
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Lady Tamplin
Poirot investigates the brutal murder of an American heiress and the theft of a fabulous ruby on the Blue Train between Calais and Nice. After traveling on the Blue Train from Calais to Nice, Hercule Poirot is pressed into service to help solve the murder of heiress Ruth Kettering who is found savagely beaten in her compartment. She was the daughter of wealthy industrialist Rufus Van Alden and very much wanted a divorce. Both her husband and her lover were on the train but she had changed rooms with another passenger, Katherine Grey, so the question naturally arises as to whether she was the intended victim. Grey may also have had enemies as she had recently inherited a very large sum of money and greedy relatives had suddenly taken an interest in her. When an attempt is subsequently made on Grey's life, this appears to the case but Poirot methodically sifts through all of the clues to determine the motive and identify the killer.
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Audrey Pretty
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack's mother, Emily, who tragically died in an accident eight years ago both baffles and unsettles the family. She even wears the same pearls that Emily wore.
Sob o Sol da Toscana
Katherine
Uma comédia romântica em torno da personagem de Frances Mayes (e da sua obra autobiográfica com o mesmo nome), uma escritora recém divorciada que compra uma casa na Toscânia à espera de começar uma nova vida e ultrapassar o bloqueio criativo a que a conduziu o trauma do divórcio. E as coisas correm-lhe bem...
AfterLife
High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.
Hamilton Mattress
Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.
Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
Narrator
Dramatised documentary which describes the police investigation that led to the conviction of David Mulcahy for the notorious Railway Murders in the 1980s of three young women in the London area and for the rapes of many others. This investigation was based largely on the testimony of John Duffy to a psychologist in prison where he was serving life after being convicted of the same offences ten years earlier, having denied at the time of his trial that he had had an accomplice (Mulcahy). -Anonymous
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
Dirty Tricks
Alison
Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.
Palácio de Ilusões
Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
Aos dez anos, Fanny é enviada por seus pais empobrecidos para morar em Mansfield Park, a propriedade de sir Thomas, o marido rico e nobre de sua tia. A garota cresce bonita, estudiosa e inteligente, torna-se escritora e, a certa altura, apaixona-se.
Expelling the Demon
Woman
The story takes place in a bedroom where, following an embarrassing sexual encounter, it shows a naked man’s disaffection with his own tongue. Tongue being the articulator of the man’s voice, has been his lifetime proxy. But it is beginning to brazenly assert itself and fly in the face of its owner. The man can tolerate this no more and a power struggle ensues during which we learn something of the tongues dubious nature.
Star Wars: Episódio I - A Ameaça Fantasma
TC-14 (voice)
Enquanto resgatam a Rainha Amidala, governante de um planeta pacífico invadido por forças ameaçadoras, os Cavaleiros Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi e Qui-Gon Jinn descobrem Anakin Skywalker, uma criança prodígio de 9 anos excepcionalmente poderosa na Força.
O Marido Ideal
Lady Markby
Incapaz de levar qualquer coisa a sério, um mulherengo começa a ver a vida de outra maneira quando um velho amigo lhe pede um imenso favor: solucionar junto com ele um problema bastante delicado.
Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão - O Filme
Hippolyta / Titania
Versão do clássico de Shakespeare, "Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão - O Filme" traz um novo personagem: o garoto que tem o sonho do título. De pijama e com olhos curiosos, ele acompanha o desenrolar da comédia visitando lugares mágicos. Primeiro, passa pelo reino de Thesus e da rainha Hipólita, onde presencia o drama de dois jovens que se amam, mas não podem ficar juntos. Depois, encontra um grupo de atores amadores preparando-se para encenar uma peça. E por fim, visita o reino das fadas, onde todas as histórias se unem. Ali, o enciumado rei Oberon e Puck, o duende, aramarão mil jogos e intrigas com os demais personagens, retardando seu encontro com a tão sonhada felicidade.
City Hall - Conspiração no Alto Escalão
Sydney Pappas
Num dia chuvoso em Nova York, um tiroteio entre um detetive da Delegacia de Narcóticos e um traficante de drogas deixa ambos mortos, sendo que uma bala perdida mata também um menino de 6 anos. John Papas (Al Pacino), o prefeito, busca contornar o problema da melhor forma possível, mas Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack), o vice-prefeito, é um idealista e resolve averiguar, descobrindo que foi dada sursis a um criminoso ao qual originariamente tinha sido recomendado uma pena entre dez e vinte anos, sendo que por acaso este criminoso é também filho do chefe da Máfia local.
Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
Narrator
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisit her unconventional life there and to share with her daughter the experiences which inform all her writing.
Anatomia de Um Assassino
Dr. Agatha Webb
Após a um acidente, homem recebe novo braço em transplante. O sucesso da operação, porém, esconde um estranho fato: o novo membro tem uma vontade assassina própria, e só a descoberta de quem foi o doador pode desvendar seu mistério. Baseado em novela de P. Boileau e T. Narcejac..
Redemption
Kath Peachey
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
O Reflexo do Mal
Dolphin Blue
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her.
Manifesto Por uma Noite de Amor
Lily Sachor
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
O Amor Não Tem Sexo
Anthea Lahr
Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton moves to London in 1951, to study at RADA, and enjoys an openly gay relationship with Halliwell in their famous Islington flat in the 1960s. However, when Orton achieves spectacular success with such plays as 'What the Butler Saw' and 'Loot', Halliwell begins to feel alienated and the pair's future looks increasingly uncertain.
Rainy Day Women
Karen Miller
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.
Loose Connections
Sally
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
(Archive Material)
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
On Approval
Helen
Adaptation of the play by Frederick Lonsdale
Grown-Ups
Mrs Butcher
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
Further Up Pompeii
Scrubba
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"
Doctor Jekyll
Dr. Nina Jekyll, a recluse who finds friendship with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.