Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award
Tony Award for her performance in Private Lives
Private Lives and another Tony Award nomination for her role in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Duncan has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her most famous roles on television include: Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii
Servilia of the Junii in the HBO/BBC/ RAI
RAI series Rome (2005–2007), and Adelaide Brooke
Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who
Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" (2009). On film she voiced the android TC-14
TC-14 in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) and played the acerbic theatre critic Tabitha Dickinson in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014). She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

Contents

1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography

4.1 Film 4.2 Television

5 Theatre 6 References 7 External links

Early life[edit] Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a working class family;[1] her father had served in the army for 21 years before becoming a civil servant.[2] Her parents moved to Leeds, then Birmingham, when she was still a child. Duncan attended King Edward VI High School for Girls
King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham
Birmingham through a scholarship.[3] Despite her origins, she speaks with a received pronunciation accent.[1] As of 2011, her only role with a Scottish accent is AfterLife (2003).[4] Duncan's father died in a car accident when she was 15.[4] Her mother was affected by Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease and died in 1994; she inspired Sharman Macdonald to write the play The Winter Guest
The Winter Guest (1995), which was later adapted as a film by Alan Rickman.[5] Career[edit] Duncan's first contact with theatre was through school productions.[2] She became friends with the future playwright Kevin Elyot, who attended the neighbouring King Edward's School for boys, and followed him to Bristol, where he read Drama at university.[2] She did a number of odd jobs while staging her own production of Joe Orton's Funeral Games.[2] Duncan joined London's Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama at the age of 21.[6] After her training she started out in summer weekly rep in Southwold
Southwold to gain her Equity card.[1] She appeared in two small roles in Molière's Don Juan
Don Juan at the Hampstead Theatre
Hampstead Theatre in 1976, and she joined the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Manchester when it opened. She performed in the very first productions at the Royal Exchange and appeared in eight plays in Manchester
Manchester in the next two years. In 1978 she returned to London
London in Plenty by David Hare at the National. She appeared on the television in small roles in a special episode of Up Pompeii! and in The New Avengers, and a commercial for Head & Shoulders shampoo.[7] She made her breakthrough on Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, created at the Royal Court in London
London and later transferred to the Public Theater in New York: her performance as Lady Nijo, a 13th-century Japanese concubine, won her an Obie, her first award.[8] The next year she took her first major role on film in Richard Eyre's Loose Connections
Loose Connections with Stephen Rea.[2] At the same time her television work included a filmed version of Frederick Lonsdale's On Approval (1982), Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983) and Dead Head (1985). In 1985 she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company for the production of Troilus and Cressida, in which she played Helen of Troy.[9] In September she created the role of the Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the play by Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton after the French novel by Choderlos de Laclos. The play opened at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon. On 8 January 1986 the production transferred to the 200-seat theatre The Pit in London's Barbican Centre, with its original cast intact. In October of the same year the production moved to the Ambassadors in the West End. In April 1987 the cast, including Duncan, took the play to Broadway, with the London
London production completely recast. For her performance she was nominated for a Tony and won the Olivier Award for Best Actress and a Theatre World Award. She was however replaced by Glenn Close
Glenn Close for Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons — Stephen Frears's film of the play; similarly John Malkovich
John Malkovich was selected for the role of Valmont instead of Duncan's co-star Alan Rickman.[10] In 1988 Duncan won an Evening Standard Award for her role of Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. At the same time she became a regular in the plays of Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter and the television work of Alan Bleasdale and Stephen Poliakoff.[11] She performed for a second season with the RSC in 1994–1995, in A Midsummer Night's Dream in which she played the double role of Hippolyta and Titania, replacing Stella Gonet from the original production cast.[12] She went on tour in the United States with the rest of the cast, but back and neck pains forced her to in turn be replaced by Emily Button from January to March 1997.[13] Impressed by her performance in David Mamet's The Cryptogram (1994), Al Pacino
Al Pacino asked Duncan to play the role of his wife in City Hall (1996) by Harold Becker.[4] To please her young son, a Star Wars
Star Wars fan, Duncan applied for the role of Anakin Skywalker's mother in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), but was not cast; she finally accepted to voice an android TC-14.[2] She reunited with Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman in a revival of Noël Coward's Private Lives
Private Lives (2001–02), and won a Tony Award
Tony Award for Best Actress and a second Olivier Award for her performance as Amanda Prynne — she was also nominated the same year for her role in Mouth To Mouth by Kevin Elyot.[14] Duncan played Servilia Caepionis in the 2005 HBO- BBC
BBC series Rome and she starred as Rose Harbinson in Starter for 10. Aged by make-up, she played Lord Longford's wife, Elizabeth, in the TV film Longford. In February 2009, she played British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher in Margaret. In November 2009, Duncan played Adelaide Brooke, companion to the Doctor, in the second of the 2009 Doctor Who
Doctor Who specials.[15][16] Duncan played Alice's mother in Tim Burton's 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, alongside Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. She also starred in the original London
London run of Polly Stenham's play That Face
That Face at the Royal Court co-starring Matt Smith and directed by Jeremy Herrin. She did the narration for the Matt Lucas and David Walliams 2010/2011 fly-on-the-wall mockumentary series Come Fly with Me on the BBC. In October–November 2010, Duncan starred in a new version by Frank McGuinness of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman
John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Dublin alongside her Liaisons dangereuses co-stars Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw.[17] The production transferred in January–February 2011 to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[18] Alan Bleasdale asked for Duncan to feature in his first work for television after ten years of absence, The Sinking of the Laconia, aired on January 2011; she plays an upper-class passenger in the two-part drama based on a true story of World War II.[19] She also played the mother of Matt Smith in the telefilm Christopher and His Kind written by Kevin Elyot after Christopher Isherwood's autobiography of the same title. In October–November 2011, Duncan read extracts of the King James Bible
King James Bible at the National Theatre, London as part of the 400th anniversary celebrations of the translation.[20] She played Queen Annis, ruler of Caerleon and antagonist of Merlin, in the 5th episode of the fourth series of BBC1's Merlin.[21] She also appeared as Home Secretary Alex Cairns to Rory Kinnear's Prime Minister in "The National Anthem", the first episode of Charlie Brooker's anthology series Black Mirror.[22] Duncan started 2012 as a guest in the New Year special of Absolutely Fabulous, playing the part of Saffy's favourite film actress, 'Jeanne Durand'. In February she returned to the West End in Noël Coward's Hay Fever with Kevin McNally, Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Northam and Olivia Colman, once again under the direction of Howard Davies.[23] Later in 2012, Duncan featured in BBC2's productions of Shakespeare's history plays.[24] She played the Duchess of York in the first film, Richard II, with David Suchet as the Duke of York and Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart as John of Gaunt.[25] In October 2014, Duncan appeared as Claire in the revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance on Broadway.[26] That same year, she also featured in the film Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Personal life[edit] Duncan is married to fellow Scottish actor Hilton McRae, whom she met in 1985 at the Royal Shakespeare Company.[27] They live in north London. They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991.[6] Duncan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours for services to drama.[28] Filmography[edit] Film[edit]

Year Title Role Notes

1985 Loose Connections Sally

1985 Samson and Delilah Alice Nankervis Short

1987 Prick Up Your Ears Anthea Lahr

1988 Manifesto Lily Sachor

1989 Child Eater, TheThe Child Eater Eirwen Short

1990 Reflecting Skin, TheThe Reflecting Skin Dolphin Blue Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival
Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress

1991 Body Parts Dr Agatha-Webb

1996 City Hall Sydney Pappas

1996 Midsummer's Night Dream, AA Midsummer's Night Dream Hippolyta/Titania From the 1994–1995 Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company stage production

1999 Ideal Husband, AnAn Ideal Husband Lady Markby

1999 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace TC-14 Voice

1999 Expelling the Demon Woman Voice, short.

1999 Mansfield Park Mrs. Price/Lady Bertram

2003 Under the Tuscan Sun Katherine

2003 AfterLife May Brogan Bratislava International Film Festival Award for Best Actress Bowmore Scottish Screen Award

2004 Queen of Sheba's Pearls, TheThe Queen of Sheba's Pearls Audrey Pretty

2006 Starter for Ten Rose Harbinson

2007 The Rector's Wife Anna Bouverie

2010 Burlesque Fairytales Ice Queen

2010 Alice in Wonderland Helen Kingsleigh

2012 Last Passenger Elaine Middleton

2013 About Time Mary Lake

2013 Le Week-End Meg Burrows

2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Tabitha Dickinson Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble

2016 Alice Through the Looking Glass Helen Kingsleigh

2017 Gifted Evelyn Adler

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Notes

1975 Up Pompeii! Scrubba Series (BBC), special episode 'Further Up Pompeii!'

1976 One-Upmanship

Series (BBC), episode 'Woomanship'

1977 New Avengers, TheThe New Avengers Jane Series, episode 'The Angels of Death'

1979 The Winkler Diane ITV Playhouse

1980 Dick Turpin Catherine Langford Series, episode 'Deadlier Than the Male'

1980 Grown-Ups Christine Butcher BBC2
BBC2 Playhouse, directed by Mike Leigh

1982 Muck and Brass Jean Torrode Series, episodes 'Public Relations' and 'Our Green and Pleasant Land'

1982 On Approval Helen Hayle Filmed production of Frederick Lonsdale's On Approval, BBC
BBC Play of the Month

1983 Reilly, Ace of Spies The Plugger Mini series, episode 'After Moscow'

1984 Rainy Day Women Karen Miller BBC
BBC Play for Today

1984 Travelling Man Andrea Series, episodes 'First Leg', 'The Collector', 'The Watcher', 'Grasser', 'Moving On', 'Sudden Death'

1986 Dead Head Dana Series, episodes 'Why me?', 'Anything for England', 'The Patriot'

1986 Kit Curran Pamela Scott Series, all episodes

1989 These Foolish Things Gutrune Day BBC
BBC The Play on One

1989 Traffik Helen Rosshalde Mini-series, written by Simon Moore, all episodes

1988–1990 Colin's Sandwich Rosemary Series, episodes 'Enough' (1988) and 'Zanzibar' (1990)

1990 TECX Laura Pellin Series, épisode 'Getting Personnel'

1991 Storyteller: Greek Myths, TheThe Storyteller: Greek Myths Medea Series, episode 'Theseus & the Minotaur'

1991 Screenplay Kath Peachey Series, episode 'Redemption'

1991 G.B.H. Barbara Douglas Mini-series, witten by Alan Bleasdale, episodes 'Only Here on a Message', 'Send a Message to Michael', 'Message Sent', 'Message received', 'Message Understood', 'Over and Out' Nominated – TV BAFTA for Best Actress

1993 Year in Provence, AA Year in Provence Annie Mayle Miniseries, all episodes. After Peter Mayle's book.

1994 Rector's Wife, TheThe Rector's Wife Anne Bouverie Series, all episodes. After the novel by Joanna Trollope.

1995 Just William Lady Walton Series, episode 'William Clears the Slums'

1995 Jake's Progress Monica Miniseries, episodes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6

1999 History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, TheThe History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Lady Bellaston Miniseries, episodes 1, 3, 4, 5. After the novel by Henry Fielding.

1998 Get Real Louise Series, all episodes

1999 Shooting the Past Marilyn Truman Telefilm (BBC), written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff Nominated – TV BAFTA for Best Actress

1999 Oliver Twist Elizabeth Leeford Miniseries, all episodes. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale after Charles Dickens' novel.

2000 Dirty Tricks Alison Telefilm

2000 Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings Pam Christmas special, segment 'Women Institute'

2001 Perfect Strangers Alice Series, all episodes. Written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff Nominated — TV BAFTA for Best Actress

2001 Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders Narrator's Voice Telefilm

2005 Agatha Christie's Poirot Lady Tamplin Series, episode 'The Mystery of the Blue Train'

2005–2006 Spooks Angela Wells Episodes 'Diana' and 'Gas and Oil, Part One'

2005–2007 Rome Servilia of the Junii Series, 18 episodes

2006 Longford Lady Longford Telefilm

2007 Frankenstein Professor Jane Pretorius Telefilm

2008 Criminal Justice Alison Slaughter Miniseries, episodes 3–5

2008 Lost in Austen Lady Catherine de Bourgh Miniseries, episodes 3 and 4

2009 Margaret Margaret Thatcher Nominated – Scottish BAFTA Award for Best Actress

2009 Doctor Who Adelaide Brooke Special
Special episode: 'The Waters of Mars'

2009 Margot Ninette de Valois Telefilm (BBC)

2010 Agatha Christie's Marple Marina Gregg Episode: 'The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side'

2010 Mission: 2110 Cybele Children game show

2010–2011 Come Fly with Me Narrator (voice) Series, all episodes

2011 Sinking of the Laconia, TheThe Sinking of the Laconia Elisabeth Fullwood Miniseries (BBC), all episodes. Written by Alan Bleasdale.

2011 Christopher and His Kind Kathleen Isherwood Telefilm, written by Kevin Elyot after Christopher Isherwood's autobiography

2011–2012 Merlin Queen Annis Series (BBC1), 4th season, 5th season

2011 Black Mirror Home Secretary Alex Cairns Miniseries, first episode: "The National Anthem" (Channel 4). Written by Charlie Brooker.

2011 Against the Wall Faith Kowalski Police-crime drama television series, episode 'We Have a Cop in Trouble Here'

2012 Absolutely Fabulous Jeanne Durand New Year's Day 'Special' (BBC1)

2012 White Heat Lilly Series (BBC2), written by Paula Milne

2012 Richard II Duchess of York Telefilm (BBC2) – filmed production of Shakespeare's play

2012 Spy The Director Episodes 'Codename: Citizen Lame' and 'Codename - Show Stopper'

2012 Wallander Monika Westin Episode 'Before the Frost'

2013 You, Me and Them Lydia Walker Series Regular

2013 Count Arthur Strong Dame Agnes

2014–2017 Sherlock Lady Smallwood Episodes: "His Last Vow", "The Six Thatchers", and "The Lying Detective"

2014 The Honourable Woman Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle

2015 Toast of London Herself Episode: "Global Warming"

2016 Churchill's Secret Clementine Churchill

2016 Close to the Enemy Frau Bellinghausen BBC2
BBC2 mini-series, written & directed by Stephen Poliakoff

2017 The Leftovers Grace Season 3, Episodes 2,3...

2017 Carnage Maude Mockumentary

Theatre[edit]

Year Title Role Notes

1976 Dom Juan Charlotte/Violetta Hampstead Theatre, London

1976 Script, TheThe Script

Hampstead Theatre, London

1976 Zack Sally Teale Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

1976 Rivals, TheThe Rivals Lucy Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

1976 Prince of Homburg, TheThe Prince of Homburg Natalie Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. British premiere of the play.

1977 Deep Blue Sea, TheThe Deep Blue Sea Anne Cambridge Arts Theatre

1977 Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, TheThe Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Margaret Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. After a novel by Evelyn Waugh.

1977 What the Butler Saw Geraldine Barclay Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

1977 Skin of Our Teeth, TheThe Skin of Our Teeth Gladys Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

1977 Present Laughter Daphne Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

1977 Twelfth Night Viola Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

1978 Plenty Dorcas National Theatre, London

1978 Comings and Goings Hilary Hampstead Theatre, London

1979 Recruiting Officer, TheThe Recruiting Officer Sylvia Bristol
Bristol Old Vic/ Edinburgh
Edinburgh Festival

1980 Julius Caesar Portia Riverside Studios, London

1980 Provoked Wife, TheThe Provoked Wife Belinda National Theatre, London

1981 Incident at Tulse Hill Rosemary Hampstead Theatre, London. Directed by Harold Pinter.

1982 Top Girls Lady Nijo/Win Royal Court Theatre, London
London then Joe Papp's Public Theater, New York Won – Obie Award.

1984 Progress Ronnie Bush Theatre, London

1985–1986 Troilus and Cressida Helen Royal Shakespeare Company: Stratford-upon-Avon/Barbican Theatre

1985–1986 Les Liaisons dangereuses Marquise de Merteuil Royal Shakespeare Company: Ambassadors Theatre, Londres then Music Box Theatre, New York. Won – Olivier Award for Best Actress and a Theatre World Award; nominated – Tony Award
Tony Award for Best Actress.

1985–1986 Merry Wives of Windsor, TheThe Merry Wives of Windsor Mistress Ford Royal Shakespeare Company: Stratford-upon-Avon/Barbican Theatre

1988 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie National Theatre, London Won – Evening Standard Theatre Award

1988 Hedda Gabler Hedda Gabler Hampstead Theatre, London

1990 Bérénice Bérénice National Theatre, London

1993 Three Hotels Barbara Boyle Tricycle Theatre, London

1994 Cryptogram, TheThe Cryptogram Donny Ambassadors Theatre, London

1995 Midsummer Night's Dream, AA Midsummer Night's Dream Titania/Hippolyta Royal Shakespeare Company: Barbican Theatre, London
London then The Lunt Fontanne, New York, afterwards adapted to film

1996 Ashes to Ashes Rebecca Gramercy Theater, New York

1997 Homecoming, TheThe Homecoming Ruth National Theatre, London

2000 Celebration/The Room Prue/Rose (double bill) Almeida Theatre, London, then the Pinter Festival New York

2001 Mouth to Mouth Laura Albery Theatre, London Won – Critics' Circle Theatre Award; nominated – Olivier Award, Evening Standard Award

2001 Private Lives Amanda Prynne Albery Theatre, London, then Broadway Won – Olivier Award for Best Actress, Tony Award
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Critics' Circle Theatre Award, Drama Desk Award and Variety Club Showbusiness Award; nominated – Evening Standard Award

2007 That Face Martha Royal Court Theatre/Duke of York's Theatre Nominated – Oliver Award for Best Actress

2010 John Gabriel Borkman Ella Rentheim Abbey Theatre, Dublin, then Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

2012 Hay Fever Judith Bliss Noël Coward
Noël Coward Theatre, London

2014 A Delicate Balance Claire John Golden Theatre, Broadway

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

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Lindsay Duncan on IMDb " Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan resume". Dalzell & Beresford. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011.  Sulcasmarch, Roslyn (7 March 2014). "Just Another Great Role for What's-Her-Name: Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan Stars in 'Le Week-End'". The New York Times. 

Awards for Lindsay Duncan

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BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film

Kathy Burke (1998) Emily Watson
Emily Watson (1999) Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson (2000) Kate Ashfield (2001) Samantha Morton
Samantha Morton (2002) Olivia Williams
Olivia Williams (2003) Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton (2004) Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz (2005) Kate Dickie
Kate Dickie (2006) Judi Dench
Judi Dench (2007) Vera Farmiga
Vera Farmiga (2008) Carey Mulligan
Carey Mulligan (2009) Carey Mulligan
Carey Mulligan (2010) Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman (2011) Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Riseborough (2012) Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan (2013) Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (2014) Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan (2015) Sasha Lane
Sasha Lane (2016) Florence Pugh (2017)

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play

Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn (1975) Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris (1976) Irene Worth
Irene Worth (1977) Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy (1978) Constance Cummings
Constance Cummings / Carole Shelley
Carole Shelley (1979) Pat Carroll (1980) Joan Copeland
Joan Copeland (1981) Zoe Caldwell (1982) Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy (1983) Joan Allen
Joan Allen (1984) Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris (1985) Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin (1986) Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin (1987) Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing (1988) Pauline Collins
Pauline Collins (1989) Geraldine James (1990) Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes Ruehl (1991) Laura Esterman (1992) Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander (1993) Myra Carter (1994) Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (1995) Zoe Caldwell (1996) Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer (1997) Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (1998) Kathleen Chalfant (1999) Eileen Heckart (2000) Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker (2001) Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan (2002) Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave (2003) Viola Davis
Viola Davis / Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad (2004) Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (2005) Lois Smith
Lois Smith (2006) Eve Best
Eve Best (2007) Deanna Dunagan (2008) Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer (2009) Jan Maxwell
Jan Maxwell (2010) Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand (2011) Tracie Bennett (2012) Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson (2013) Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald (2014) Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren (2015) Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange (2016) Laura Linney
Laura Linney (2017)

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress

Yvonne Bryceland (1985) Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan (1986) Judi Dench
Judi Dench (1987) Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw (1989/1990) Kathryn Hunter
Kathryn Hunter (1991) Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Stevenson (1992) Alison Steadman
Alison Steadman (1993) Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw (1994) Clare Higgins
Clare Higgins (1995) Judi Dench
Judi Dench (1996) Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer (1997) Zoë Wanamaker
Zoë Wanamaker (1998) Eileen Atkins (1999) Janie Dee (2000) Julie Walters
Julie Walters (2001) Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan (2002) Clare Higgins
Clare Higgins (2003) Eileen Atkins (2004) Clare Higgins
Clare Higgins (2005) Eve Best
Eve Best (2006) Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Greig (2007) Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas (2008) Margaret Tyzack
Margaret Tyzack (2009) Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz (2010) Nancy Carroll (2011) Ruth Wilson
Ruth Wilson (2012) Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren (2013) Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville (2014) Penelope Wilton
Penelope Wilton (2015) Denise Gough (2016) Billie Piper
Billie Piper (2017)

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Tony Award
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman / Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (1947) Judith Anderson
Judith Anderson / Katharine Cornell
Katharine Cornell / Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy (1948) Martita Hunt (1949) Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth (1950) Uta Hagen
Uta Hagen (1951) Julie Harris (1952) Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth (1953) Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn (1954) Nancy Kelly
Nancy Kelly (1955) Julie Harris (1956) Margaret Leighton
Margaret Leighton (1957) Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (1958) Gertrude Berg
Gertrude Berg (1959) Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft (1960) Joan Plowright
Joan Plowright (1961) Margaret Leighton
Margaret Leighton (1962) Uta Hagen
Uta Hagen (1963) Sandy Dennis (1964) Irene Worth
Irene Worth (1965) Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris (1966) Beryl Reid
Beryl Reid (1967) Zoe Caldwell (1968) Julie Harris (1969) Tammy Grimes
Tammy Grimes (1970) Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton (1971) Sada Thompson
Sada Thompson (1972) Julie Harris (1973) Colleen Dewhurst
Colleen Dewhurst (1974) Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn (1975) Irene Worth
Irene Worth (1976) Julie Harris (1977) Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy (1978) Constance Cummings
Constance Cummings / Carole Shelley
Carole Shelley (1979) Phyllis Frelich (1980) Jane Lapotaire (1981) Zoe Caldwell (1982) Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy (1983) Glenn Close
Glenn Close (1984) Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing (1985) Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin (1986) Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin (1987) Joan Allen
Joan Allen (1988) Pauline Collins
Pauline Collins (1989) Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith (1990) Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes Ruehl (1991) Glenn Close
Glenn Close (1992) Madeline Kahn
Madeline Kahn (1993) Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg (1994) Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (1995) Zoe Caldwell (1996) Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer (1997) Marie Mullen (1998) Judi Dench
Judi Dench (1999) Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle (2000) Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker (2001) Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan (2002) Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave (2003) Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad (2004) Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (2005) Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon (2006) Julie White
Julie White (2007) Deanna Dunagan (2008) Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden (2009) Viola Davis
Viola Davis (2010) Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand (2011) Nina Arianda (2012) Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson (2013) Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald (2014) Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren (2015) Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange (2016) Laurie Metcalf
Laurie Metcalf (2017)

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