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. Lindsay has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her most famous roles on television include: Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. , Servilia of the Junii in the HBO/BBC/RAI series Rome , and Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" . On film she voiced the android TC-14 in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace , and... she played Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland . She was awarded a CBE in 2009 for services to drama. Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in a working class family; her father had served in the army for 21 years before becoming a civil servant. Her parents moved to Leeds, then Birmingham when she was still a child. Duncan attended King Edwards VI High School for Girls in Birmingham through a scholarship. Despite her origins, she speaks with a Received Pronunciation accent.
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| Birthdate: | November 7, 1950 |
| Birthplace: | Edinburgh |
| Age: | 61 |
| Education: | Central School of Speech and Drama |
| Also known as: | Lindsay Vere Duncan |