Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE is a Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award for her performance in 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 Bleasdales G.B.H. , Servilia of the Junii in the HBOBBCRAI series Rome , and Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars . On film she voiced the android TC14 in Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace , Alices mother in Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland and played the acerbic theatre critic Tabitha Dickinson in Birdman or .

Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a working class family her father had served in the army foryears before becoming a civil servant. Her parents moved to Leeds, then Birmingham when she was still a child. Duncan attended King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham through a scholarship. Despite her origins, she speaks with a received pronunciation accent. As of 2011, her only role with a Scottish accent is AfterLife .

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