Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Born: November 7, 1950
in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born November 7, 1950) is a Scottish stage and television actress, and winner of a Tony Award for Private Lives.

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Title: Truelove
Character: Phil
Released: January 3, 2024
Type: TV
A group of old friends reunited at a funeral make a drunken pact. Rather than let each other suffer a slow and painful decline they would engineer a dignified death. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into shocking reality.
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Doctor Jekyll
Title: Doctor Jekyll
Released: October 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.
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Call Me Back
Title: Call Me Back
Character: Grace
Released: September 29, 2023
Type: Movie
Grace returns home from the funeral of her husband, George accompanied by her daughter, Lucy. Mother and daughter clash, leading Grace to attempt to mourn in isolation. Confronted by memories of happier times, she begins the process of cleansing the house - and herself - of the medical paraphernalia of the sick man she nursed. Ignoring phone calls from her daughter, she chaotically extends the purge of George's earthly manifestations beyond what she can bear. Faced with her error, she has a choice to make - to either continue on her destructive path, or reach out to her daughter for help.
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Last Call
Title: Last Call
Character: Kate
Released: June 9, 2023
Type: Movie
A desperate mother is trying to reconnect with her son. Navigating an obvious void, she will finally have the chance to ask the questions that have haunted her past, and will decide her future.
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Title: Sherwood
Character: Jennifer Hale
Released: June 13, 2022
Type: TV
Two murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history while threatening to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners' Strike three decades before.
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A Banquet
Title: A Banquet
Character: June
Released: February 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Jane Digby
Released: December 5, 2021
Type: TV
Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly joined by aspiring journalist Abigail Fix, who seizes the chance to report on this extraordinary story.
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Title: The Wheel of Time
Character: Anvaere Damodred
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: TV
Follow Moiraine, a member of the shadowy and influential all-female organization called the “Aes Sedai” as she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women. Moiraine believes one of them might be the reincarnation of an incredibly powerful individual, whom prophecies say will either save humanity or destroy it.
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No Ordinary Joe
Title: No Ordinary Joe
Character: Marion Barbara "Joe" Carstairs
Released: September 6, 2021
Type: Movie
The eccentric lesbian icon Joe Carstairs looks back on her adventurous life together with her faithful little companion, Lord Tod Wadley. The story unfolds in a mix of live action and puppet animation.
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: Kate
Released: July 9, 2020
Type: Movie
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
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My Zoe
Title: My Zoe
Character: Kathy
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes can help bring back her little girl.
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National Theatre Live: Hansard
Title: National Theatre Live: Hansard
Character: Diana Hesketh
Released: November 7, 2019
Type: Movie
It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-sport.
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Title: His Dark Materials
Character: Octavia (voice)
Released: November 3, 2019
Type: TV
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology, and magic are intertwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.
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Little Joe
Title: Little Joe
Character: Psychotherapist
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.
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November 1st
Title: November 1st
Character: Bonnie
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: Movie
A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.
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Title: The Morning Show
Character: Martha Ellison
Released: November 1, 2019
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.
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Blackbird
Title: Blackbird
Character: Liz
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
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Title: A Discovery of Witches
Character: Ysabeau de Clermont
Released: September 14, 2018
Type: TV
Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.
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Gifted
Title: Gifted
Character: Evelyn Adler
Released: April 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
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Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Title: Carnage: Swallowing the Past
Character: Maude
Released: March 19, 2017
Type: Movie
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
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Title: Close to the Enemy
Character: Frau Bellinghausen
Released: November 10, 2016
Type: TV
A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.
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He Does Not Want Peace
Title: He Does Not Want Peace
Character: Rachel Englebright
Released: August 11, 2016
Type: Movie
When a man witnesses a profound event, it threatens to destroy his family.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Title: Alice Through the Looking Glass
Character: Helen Kingsleigh
Released: May 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
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Churchill's Secret
Title: Churchill's Secret
Character: Clemmie Churchill
Released: February 29, 2016
Type: Movie
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Title: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Character: Tabitha Dickinson
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
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Title: The Honourable Woman
Character: Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: TV
Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.
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Title: The Leftovers
Character: Grace Playford
Released: June 29, 2014
Type: TV
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Loretta Lamb
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Toast of London
Released: October 20, 2013
Type: TV
Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.
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Last Passenger
Title: Last Passenger
Character: Elaine Middleton
Released: October 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the train while an attractive young woman (Tointon) watches over his son. When he wakes, all but a few passengers have alighted and he realises that the train is not stopping to let anyone else off. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Lewis goes to investigate and finds that the train has been taken over by an unstable driver who is hellbent on destroying the vehicle along with all the remaining passengers on board.
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Le Week-End
Title: Le Week-End
Character: Meg Burrows
Released: October 4, 2013
Type: Movie
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.
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Lawless
Title: Lawless
Character: Lady Justice MacNeil
Released: October 3, 2013
Type: Movie
From the cells in the basement to the judge's chambers, Lawless offers a backstage pass to the inner workings of a modern court. Suranne Jones stars as a brand new judge battling to keep her head above the water in the murky depths of the justice system.
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About Time
Title: About Time
Character: Mum
Released: September 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
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Title: Count Arthur Strong
Character: Dame Agnes
Released: July 8, 2013
Type: TV
Count Arthur Strong is a faded star from the golden days of variety, prone to delusions of grandeur, selective memory loss and the blurting out of malapropisms. He was never as famous as he thinks he was... or still thinks he is. Believing that another great entertainment triumph is only a phone call away, Arthur spends his day making the most of any opportunity that comes along - gaining a free lunch or selling a dodgy foot-spa he doesn't want - creating chaos and confusion wherever he goes, blissfully unaware that he has done so.
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Amish: A Secret Life
Title: Amish: A Secret Life
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the 'Old Order' Amish community in Pennsylvania,whose church forbids all technology - though Dave gets lifts to work in a car and the couple,by allowing themselves to be filmed,risk the wrath of church elders. Having outlined their traditional life-style to camera Miriam persuades several friends to be happily filmed and it becomes clear that the Lapps and other,younger Amish,believe that,having been rebaptized to allow a more open evangelical approach - risking excommunication thereby - they feel the need for a change in the community. The film ends as the family consolidates its dream to own their own farm.
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Title: The Hollow Crown
Character: Duchess of York
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: TV
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
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Title: Playhouse Presents
Character: Mrs. Dalloway
Released: April 12, 2012
Type: TV
Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer and stars a different cast. The four-part adaptation of A Country Doctor's Notebook was also broadcast on the strand in December 2012. Sky Arts have announced that they are ordering a five-part spin-off of the third play, Nixon’s The One. They say the full cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon and Henry Goodman as Kissinger, will return for the series run, which will be filmed in September 2012. The series will broadcast in 2013. The second series began airing in April 2013 featuring Kathy Burke, Frances Barber, Julia Davis, Idris Elba, Anna Friel, Rebecca Front, Stephen Graham, David Harewood, Ian Hart, Sharon Horgan, Mathew Horne, Suranne Jones, Kylie Minogue, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Serafinowicz, Matt Smith, Johnny Vegas, Marc Warren, Jack Whitehall and Reggie Yates.
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Title: White Heat
Character: Lilly (present day)
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: TV
In 1965, seven students meet and, despite being an assorted mix of people, become friends while they share a flat together in London. As time passes, their lives intertwine with each other as they feel the impact of political developments and the outbreak of war and disease.
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Title: Black Mirror
Character: Alex Cairns
Released: December 4, 2011
Type: TV
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
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Title: Spy
Character: The Director
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: TV
When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for custody of their precocious son.
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Title: Against the Wall
Character: Faith Kowalski
Released: July 31, 2011
Type: TV
This Chicago-set family drama follows a policewoman who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when she decides to join the department's Internal Affairs division.
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Christopher and His Kind
Title: Christopher and His Kind
Character: Kathleen Isherwood
Released: March 19, 2011
Type: Movie
In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.
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Title: The Sinking of the Laconia
Character: Elisabeth Fullwood
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: TV
The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew
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Title: The Sinking of the Laconia
Character: Narrator
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: TV
The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew
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Title: Sherlock
Character: Lady Smallwood
Released: July 25, 2010
Type: TV
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
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Alice in Wonderland
Title: Alice in Wonderland
Character: Helen Kingsleigh
Released: March 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
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Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
Title: Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Character: Self
Released: January 24, 2010
Type: Movie
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
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Burlesque Fairytales
Title: Burlesque Fairytales
Character: Ice Queen
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A fairytale thriller film set one night in a 1930's London theatre where all is not what it seems.
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Margot
Title: Margot
Character: Madam
Released: November 30, 2009
Type: Movie
At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.
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Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
Title: Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
Character: Captain Adelaide Brooke
Released: November 15, 2009
Type: Movie
In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.
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Margaret
Title: Margaret
Character: Margaret Thatcher
Released: March 26, 2009
Type: Movie
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
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Title: Merlin
Character: Queen Annis
Released: September 20, 2008
Type: TV
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.
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Title: Lost in Austen
Character: Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: TV
Modern Amanda enters through a portal in her bathroom, to join the Bennet family and affect events disastrously.
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Title: Criminal Justice
Character: Alison Slaughter
Released: June 30, 2008
Type: TV
Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.
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Frankenstein
Title: Frankenstein
Character: Jane Pretorius
Released: October 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death.
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Longford
Title: Longford
Character: Lady Elizabeth Longford
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
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Starter for 10
Title: Starter for 10
Character: Rose Harbison
Released: September 13, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
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Title: Rome
Character: Servilia of the Junii
Released: August 28, 2005
Type: TV
A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Adelaide Brooke
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Title: The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Character: Audrey Pretty
Released: December 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack's mother, Emily, who tragically died in an accident eight years ago both baffles and unsettles the family. She even wears the same pearls that Emily wore.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Marina Gregg
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Title: Under the Tuscan Sun
Character: Katherine
Released: September 20, 2003
Type: Movie
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
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AfterLife
Title: AfterLife
Released: August 19, 2003
Type: Movie
High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Angela Wells
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Hamilton Mattress
Title: Hamilton Mattress
Character: Beryl / Gertrude (voice)
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.
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Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
Title: Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders
Character: Narrator
Released: December 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Dramatised documentary which describes the police investigation that led to the conviction of David Mulcahy for the notorious Railway Murders in the 1980s of three young women in the London area and for the rapes of many others. This investigation was based largely on the testimony of John Duffy to a psychologist in prison where he was serving life after being convicted of the same offences ten years earlier, having denied at the time of his trial that he had had an accomplice (Mulcahy). -Anonymous
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Title: Perfect Strangers
Character: Alice
Released: May 10, 2001
Type: TV
A darkly comic tale of a young man who comes face to face with his huge family - a variety of eccentrics, all of whom are hiding secrets from their pasts. At a family reunion Raymond is presented with a copy of the family tree and is absolutely amazed by the complexity of his family ties.
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Title: Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Released: December 25, 2000
Type: Movie
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
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Title: A History of Britain
Character: Reader
Released: September 30, 2000
Type: TV
Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry.
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Dirty Tricks
Title: Dirty Tricks
Character: Alison
Released: September 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.
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Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Elizabeth Leeford
Released: November 28, 1999
Type: TV
Oliver Twist is a 1999 television mini-series produced by ITV based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
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Mansfield Park
Title: Mansfield Park
Character: Mrs. Price / Lady Bertram
Released: November 12, 1999
Type: Movie
When spirited young woman, Fanny Price is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own.
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Expelling the Demon
Title: Expelling the Demon
Character: Woman
Released: June 19, 1999
Type: Movie
The story takes place in a bedroom where, following an embarrassing sexual encounter, it shows a naked man’s disaffection with his own tongue. Tongue being the articulator of the man’s voice, has been his lifetime proxy. But it is beginning to brazenly assert itself and fly in the face of its owner. The man can tolerate this no more and a power struggle ensues during which we learn something of the tongues dubious nature.
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Title: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Character: TC-14 (voice)
Released: May 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
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An Ideal Husband
Title: An Ideal Husband
Character: Lady Markby
Released: April 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
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Title: Shooting the Past
Character: Marilyn Truman
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.
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Title: Get Real
Character: Louise
Released: July 6, 1998
Type: TV
Louise, Adam and Lestor are good friends. They meet up in each other's flats or in a coffee bar to drink and discuss life, love and sex.
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Title: The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
Character: Lady Bellaston
Released: November 9, 1997
Type: TV
Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of the charming Tom.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Hippolyta / Titania
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which unfolds in a surreal landscape of umbrellas and lightbulbs.
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City Hall
Title: City Hall
Character: Sydney Pappas
Released: February 16, 1996
Type: Movie
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
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Title: Jake's Progress
Character: Monica
Released: October 12, 1995
Type: TV
Jamie looks after his son Jake while his wife works all hours.
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Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
Title: Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair
Character: Narrator
Released: March 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisit her unconventional life there and to share with her daughter the experiences which inform all her writing.
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Title: The Rector's Wife
Character: Anna Bouverie
Released: March 4, 1994
Type: TV
Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village.
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Title: A Year in Provence
Character: Annie Mayle
Released: February 28, 1993
Type: TV
Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their experience in their first month go from outstanding to downright puzzling. They adore the food and wine but do encounter amusing cultural barriers from the lengthy discussion every time they go to the butcher, to the plumber who promises to come back but is unseen for the the next month. They also learn that their old friends in England are lining up to visit them in the summer.
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Body Parts
Title: Body Parts
Character: Dr. Agatha Webb
Released: August 2, 1991
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Kath Peachey
Released: July 3, 1991
Type: Movie
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
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Title: G.B.H.
Character: Barbara Douglas
Released: June 6, 1991
Type: TV
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.
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The Reflecting Skin
Title: The Reflecting Skin
Character: Dolphin Blue
Released: August 28, 1990
Type: Movie
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her.
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Title: TECX
Character: Laura Pellin
Released: March 22, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Traffik
Character: Helen Rosshalde
Released: June 22, 1989
Type: TV
Traffik is a 1989 British television serial about the illegal drugs trade. Its three stories are interwoven, with arcs told from the perspectives of Afghan and Pakistani growers and manufacturers, German dealers, and British users. It was nominated for six BAFTA Awards, winning three. It also won an International Emmy Award for best drama. The 2000 crime drama film Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, was based on this television serial. In turn, the 2004 American television miniseries Traffic was based on both versions.
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These Foolish Things
Title: These Foolish Things
Character: Gutrune Day
Released: February 28, 1989
Type: Movie
Gutrune's romance with newspaper editor Nick Verney is hampered by the fact that he is still in love with the wife from whom he is separated. She finds that in affairs of the heart, advice is the last thing she needs.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Lady Tamplin
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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The Childeater
Title: The Childeater
Character: Eirwen
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Oscar nominated short film from 1989
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Title: Colin's Sandwich
Character: Rosemary
Released: October 18, 1988
Type: TV
Colin's Sandwich is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1988 and 1990 which stars Mel Smith as Colin Watkins, a British Rail clerk who aspired to be a horror writer. The show was written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan and ran for two series of six episodes. In the second series, Colin manages to achieve some small successes as a writer.
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Manifesto
Title: Manifesto
Character: Lily Sachor
Released: January 27, 1988
Type: Movie
In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
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Prick Up Your Ears
Title: Prick Up Your Ears
Character: Anthea Lahr
Released: April 17, 1987
Type: Movie
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
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Title: Dead Head
Character: Dana Cass
Released: January 15, 1986
Type: TV
London based petty crook, Eddie Cass agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop off address Eddie opens the package and finds a woman’s severed head in a hatbox. He panics and dumps it in the River Thames. Returning home Cass is kidnapped by the mysterious Eldridge and his heavies who inform Eddie that he has been framed for the murder.
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Title: Travelling Man
Character: Andrea
Released: November 7, 1984
Type: TV
After finishing a 2 year prison sentence for a bribe he never took Ex detective inspector Alan Lomax wants answers. Lomax has at least one luxury left - a narrowboat. And it's on the canals, among the day trippers and travelers, that he means to find revenge. Not an easy task for an ex-detective isolated on the wrong side of the law.
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Loose Connections
Title: Loose Connections
Character: Sally
Released: April 13, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
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Rainy Day Women
Title: Rainy Day Women
Character: Karen Miller
Released: April 10, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.
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Title: The Kit Curran Radio Show
Character: Pamela Scott
Released: April 2, 1984
Type: TV
Disc jockey, flyboy, con-man, compulsive fibber... Kit Curran is all of these and worse! A perfect storm of self-obsession and general apathy, Kit reigns as the undisputed king of small-time Radio Newtown; but sparks start to fly when a new boss arrives and Kit finds that his days of egocentric scheming may soon be numbered!
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Title: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Character: Alexandra
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: TV
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.
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Title: Timewatch
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: September 29, 1982
Type: TV
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
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Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Character: (Archive Material)
Released: September 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
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On Approval
Title: On Approval
Character: Helen
Released: June 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the play by Frederick Lonsdale
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Title: Muck and Brass
Character: Jean Torrode
Released: January 12, 1982
Type: TV
The story of a no-holds-barred, go-getting property dealer played by celebrated comedian Mel Smith, who has the view that everyone has a price though the price may not always be money.
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Grown-Ups
Title: Grown-Ups
Character: Mrs Butcher
Released: November 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
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The Winkler
Title: The Winkler
Character: Diane
Released: April 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Set in the near future, civil servants are busy winkling out and repatriating all first generation immigrants. The attempt drowns in paper until the form-filling is curtailed in the name of efficiency.
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Title: The New Avengers
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: TV
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
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Further Up Pompeii
Title: Further Up Pompeii
Character: Scrubba
Released: March 31, 1975
Type: Movie
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"