Lindsay Duncan
Born: November 7 1950
Where: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
A respected stage actress on both sides of the Atlantic, her film resume ranges from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Prick Up Your Ears.
However, although the Hollywood offers are there, Duncan prefers to experiment with live theatre in new or traditional plays.
After studying at London's Central School of Drama, she worked in the theatre and began landing British TV parts including the role of Scrubba opposite Frankie Howerd in Further Up Pompeii and Reilly: Ace of Spies.
She made her big screen debut in the little-seen Richard Eyre comedy Loose Connections but really caught the attention on the Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears in 1987.
Duncan subsequently concentrated on TV work including Traffik (later to become the Oscar-winning Traffic), GBH and A Year in Provence.
Big screen roles included City Hall with Al Pacino and the period movies An Ideal Husband and Mansfield Park.
Duncan also provided the voice for TC-14 in Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.
Onstage, she is best known for the role of Merteuil in the RSC, West End and Broadway productions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
She also starred opposite Alan Rickman as Amanda in the West End and Broadway productions of Noel Coward's Private Lives.
Recent feature work includes the role of free-spirited Katherine in Under The Tuscan Sun with Diane Lane.
