Lindsay Duncan is a wonderful actress from Scotland who has achieved great success primarily on the stage. She is the owner of the Laurence Olivier Theater Award, as well as the Tony Award. At the same time, Duncan also starred in several good English TV shows - Black Mirror, Doctor Who, Sherlock.
Date of birth and school years
Lindsay Duncan was born on November 7, 1950 in the Scottish capital - Edinburgh. However, pretty soon after she was born, she moved to Birmingham with her father and mother. Here, Lindsay began to go to the prestigious King Edward VI School for Girls.
It is known that the theater was Lindsay's passion since childhood - she was eager to take part in various school productions. And Lindsay's parents supported her in this passion, although they were not connected with theatrical art or show business.
It is also worth adding that in school years she met the future famous playwright Kevin Eliot.
Lindsay Duncan's acting career in the 20th century
At the age of 21, Lindsay entered the London School of Performing Arts and Dramatic Arts. And after she graduated, she began working at the Southwold Theater, a small town on the east coast of Great Britain.
In 1976, Lindsay played a cameo role in Don Giovanni, a production based on the classic work of Moliere.
Two years later, in 1978, the girl got the opportunity to perform at the London National Theater.
Also in the second half of the seventies and early eighties, Lindsey Duncan began to flicker on television from time to time - she starred in an advertisement for shampoo, and also played small roles in such British TV series as New Avengers, Dick Turpin, The End of Pompeii! " and "Reilly: the king of spies."
And her first major role in the big movie, Lindsay Duncan received in 1985. In the comedy “Careless Ties” (directed by Richard Eyre), she played Sally, a girl who wants to go to the feminist congress in Germany. The heroine Lindsay Duncan, according to the script, does not smoke or eat meat, and wants to find a fellow traveler with similar views. But in the end, due to certain circumstances, she has to go there with a man (played by Stephen Ree), who, by his convictions and habits, is the exact opposite of Sally.
In 1985, Lindsay joined the Royal Shakespeare Company to take part in the classic production of Troilus and Cressida. Here she played the role of the beautiful Elena Troyanskaya (because of which, strictly speaking, the legendary Trojan War began).
After that, Lindsey Duncan appeared in the image of the Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons, a stage adaptation of the novel by Chauderlo de Laclos of the same name. And this work became a truly breakthrough for the actress - for her Lindsay was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theater Award as the performer of the best female role.
In 1987, she played a side role in the film "Point Your Ears, " and in 1988, she took part in the tape "Manifesto".
And, for example, from the paintings of the second half of the nineties, in which Lindsey Duncan was shot, one should single out "City Hall" (1996), "Mansfield Park" (1999) and "Ideal Husband" (1999). In addition, in the late nineties, Duncan auditioned for the role of Shmi, the mother of Anakin Skywalker, in the first episode of Star Wars. Alas, they did not approve of this role, but they offered to voice the TC-14 robot in the same film (and she accepted this proposal).
Further work of the actress
In 2001 and 2002, she (along with another English star - actor Alan Rickman) was engaged in the play "Private Lives" based on the play of the same name by Noel Pierce Coward. And here she got the central role - the role of Amanda Prynn. Lindsay’s play in this production was appreciated by professionals - the actress was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award and even the American Tony Award.
Lindsay Duncan also performed one of the female characters in the 2003 melodrama Under the Tuscany Sun. This melodrama tells the story of a writer who, in an attempt to overcome depression and survive a divorce from her husband, comes to Italy.
From 2005 to 2007, Duncan took part in the high-budget historical series "Rome", filmed simultaneously for the BBC Corporation and for the HBO television network. Here she appeared in the image of Servilia - the former lover of Caesar and the mother of Brutus.
In 2009, Lindsay became a member of the special issue of the legendary science fiction series Doctor Who. The issue was called Water of Mars, and, in fact, here she played Adelaide Brook - a smart and strong woman, the leader of the first colony of people on Mars.
In the same 2009, Lindsay Duncan was awarded the Order of the British Empire for her services in theatrical art.
In 2011, Lindsay appeared in The National Anthem, the scandalous first episode of the Black Mirror science fiction anthology.
It became significant for the actress and 2013. This year, Lindsey Duncan was awarded the British Independent Film Awards (an award specializing in independent films) for his role in the comedy melodrama Weekend in Paris.
A year later, in 2014, she starred in the famous film Alejandro González Iñárritu "Birdman". In this tape, which, by the way, won four Oscars, Lindsay was played by the theater critic Tabitha Dickinson (the role, although secondary, is still quite bright).
In 2017, Lindsay starred in Mark Webb’s “Gifted” drama, where she plays the formidable grandmother Evelyn. The drama received good criticism from professionals and paid off at the box office - with 7 million dollars in budget, he collected in cinemas around the world 43.
It is also worth noting that in 2017, the fourth season of the BBC "Sherlock" series was released. And in two episodes of this season (Sherlock at Death and Six Thatcher), Lindsey Duncan appeared in the image of Lady Elizabeth Smallwood, an influential widow who was forced at some point to seek help from the great detective.
