FrameThrower · Actors · Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Duncan
2 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2013
Born 7 November 1950 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE is a Scottish stage and television actress. She is the recipient of three BAFTA nominations and one Scottish BAFTA nomination, as well as two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her work on stage. She has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Duncan's film credits include Prick Up Your Ears (1987), The Reflecting Skin (1990), City Hall (1996), An Ideal Husband, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Mansfield Park (all 1999), Under the Tuscan Sun, AfterLife (both 2003), Starter for 10 (2006), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), About Time (2013), Birdman (2014), and Blackbird (2019).
Outside of stage and film, Duncan appeared as Barbara Douglas in…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1990–2013
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play2002
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award1990
- Theatre World Award1987
- Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
- Laurence Olivier Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lindsay takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 47% of their frames are day, 58% natural — the look of the work Lindsay takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 195 frames from Lindsay Duncan's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.