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Duncan Lindsay
Birth at
7 November 1950
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Lindsay Duncan is a film actress from Edinburgh. Lindsay got her debut theatrical experience by playing in school plays. At the age of twenty-one, she became a student at London’s Central School of Dramatic Art and Speech. In 1976, the actress starred in two small roles in Don Juan.
A breakthrough in the career of the actress was the role in “high-ranking girls”. Then she was offered her first major role in the cinema – the film “Free Liaisons” directed by Richard Eyre, where Stephen Rea also took
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Lindsay Duncan is a film actress from Edinburgh.
Lindsay got her debut theatrical experience by playing in school plays. At the age of twenty-one, she became a student at London’s Central School of Dramatic Art and Speech. In 1976, the actress starred in two small roles in Don Juan.
A breakthrough in the career of the actress was the role in “high-ranking girls”. Then she was offered her first major role in the cinema – the film “Free Liaisons” directed by Richard Eyre, where Stephen Rea also took part. During the same period on television, Duncan worked on the adaptation of the play “According to Approval”.
In 1985, the actress became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she received the role of Helena of Troy. In 1988, Lindsay won the EveningStandard Award for her role in The Cat on a Hot Roof. During the same period, she became a regular actress in performances based on the works of Harold Pinter.
Between 1994 and 1995, she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where she played the roles of Titania and Hippolyta. To please his son, who was a fan of Star Wars, the actress took him to the casting for the role of Anakin Skywalker, the character of the epic film.
Star Wars. Episode I: The Hidden Threat In 1999, he was not approved for the role. As a result, Lindsay still voiced another character of this film – android TC-14.
In 2005, Duncan performed the role of Servilia Cepion in the series Rome. In 2010, she was offered the role of Alice’s mother in the film.
"Alice in Wonderland" Director Tim Burton. In early 2011, a two-part film The Death of Laconia was shown on television, based on real events of the Second World War, where Lindsay played the role of a passenger of a first-class ship.
In the fall of 2011, the actress read excerpts from the King James Bible to celebrate 400 years since the transfer.