Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish actress. She is a noted stage and television actress, winning the Tony Award for Private Lives. Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to a father who served in the army for 21 years. She is married to fellow Scottish actor Hilton McRae. They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991. She studied in Birmingham at KEHS when she was at secondary school. She studied at London's Central... more

Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish actress. She is a noted stage and television actress, winning the Tony Award for Private Lives. Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to a father who served in the army for 21 years. She is married to fellow Scottish actor Hilton McRae. They have one son, Cal McRae, born September 1991. She studied in Birmingham at KEHS when she was at secondary school. She studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in mostly unheralded theatre roles before graduating to television productions in the 1980s. These productions included On Approval (1982), Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983), Dead Head (1985), and Traffik (1989). On stage she created the role of La Marquise de Merteuil in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in Stratford, London and New York. In the 1990s, she continued to appear in prestigious London stage and screen productions, such as the 1999 TV version of Oliver Twist, in... less