Lindsay Vere Duncan (born 7 November 1950) is a Tony Award-winning Scottish actress. She is a noted stage actress, winning the Tony Award for Private Lives.
Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to a father who served in the army for 21 years. 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 Ten. Aged by make-up, she played Lord Longford's wife, Elizabeth, in the award-winning TV film Longford.
Duncan is married to fellow Scottish actor Hilton McRae. They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991.
Son: Cal (b. 1991)
Won both Tony and Drama Desk awards as best actress in a Broadway play for revival of "Private Lives", May/June 2002.
Was presented with the Stage Actress Award for her role in the acclaimed revival of the Noel Coward play Private Lives at The Variety Club Showbusiness Awards 2002.
She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1987 (1986 season) for Best Actress in a New Play for Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
She was also nominated for a 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2001 for her performance in Mouth to Mouth performed at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Albery Theatre in London.
She was awarded the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2002 for her performance in Private Lives at the Albery Theatre, London.
She was awarded the 1988 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof.
She was awarded the 2001 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama) for Best Actress for her performance in Mouth to Mouth at the Royal Court Downstairs Theatre and later at the Albery Theatre and also for her performance in Private Lives at the Albery Theatre.
She was nominated for a 2001 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Mouth to Mouth at the Royal Court and Albery Theatre and also for her performance in Private Lives at the Albery Theatre.
Was nominated for Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses."
Won Broadway's 2002 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Noel Coward's "Private Lives." She had also been Tony-nominated in the same category in 1987 for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." In both plays, she co-starred with Alan Rickman.
