Phyllida Law

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1932-05-08

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Biography

Phyllida Law is a Scottish actress, the mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {94}

Mrs. Watchett

2002-03-04 6.305

The Time Machine

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Adventure, Action

Mother Canisius

2006-09-10 6.4

Copying Beethoven

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last s ...
Genre :Drama

Distinguished Lady

2005-02-02 6.935

Unleashed

Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Fraulein Manzialy

1973-04-19 6.1

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and withou ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Margaret Sutton

2000-01-24 6.53

Saving Grace

Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Mrs. Partridge (voice)

2005-10-21 6.7

Nanny McPhee

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Family

Mrs. Coogan

2005-07-14 5.269

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with his son, he decides to bring the boy along. They bot ...
Genre :Family, Adventure, Fantasy

Ursula

1993-05-07 6.9

Much Ado About Nothing

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sha ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Romance

Helen

2007-08-18 5.364

The Waiting Room

Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine an ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Elspeth

1997-12-27 6.4

The Winter Guest

It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth, travels to Frances' house to r ...
Genre :Drama

Woman at Hairdresser #1

1998-02-15 5.536

I Want You

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance

Mrs. Warne

2006-12-03 6.6

Miss Potter

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success. ...
Genre :Drama, Family, Romance

Veronica

1999-01-01 2

Milk

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family me ...
Genre :Comedy

Bella Black

2004-08-21 0

Blinded

While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside, Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker, and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi explains that he is looking for work i ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)

1999-10-29 3.389

Mad Cows

When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Madd ...
Genre :Comedy

Faith

2002-11-01 6.5

Two Men Went To War

Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own. ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Mrs. Austen

2008-02-03 6.111

Miss Austen Regrets

Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinste ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Grandmother

2010-10-29 6.986

Ways to Live Forever

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dyi ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Maria

2003-01-01 5.8

Brush with Fate

A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Lucia Pinochet

2006-03-26 6

Pinochet in Suburbia

In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of mu ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Head Mistress

2005-12-26 5.4

A Little Trip to Heaven

Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident. As Holt examines the scene of t ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Vera

1992-09-18 6.58

Peter's Friends

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Cavendish

2011-12-21 6.354

Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets ...
Genre :Drama

Vronskaya

1997-04-04 6.064

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Anne's Mother

1994-06-09 7.3

Before the Rain

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk ...
Genre :Drama, War

Esperanza de Mendoza

2006-06-27 4.136

Day of Wrath

At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can local 16th-century sheriff Ruy de Mendoza discern w ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action

Sarah

2006-12-15 6

Mia Sarah

In the half-light of a an old stately home, Samuel Davila and his grandfather Paul, once a revered writer, create schemes to repel the latest in a long line of psychologists come to cure the grandson ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

The Broker

2014-03-28 4.5

Three Days in Havana

A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Suzanne

2015-03-26 6.298

A Little Chaos

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are t ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Marie's Mother

1994-07-02 5.3

The Blue Boy

Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end up at the hotel Joe uses for his "getaways." There, ...
Genre :Drama

Boheme

2008-10-17 6.281

Lecture 21

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony. ...
Genre :Fantasy, History, Drama

Ruth

2010-11-16 7.9

Love at First Sight

A day in the life of 70-year-old Arthur, who falls in love with Ruth, a new resident at his retirement home. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Shouting Woman (uncredited)

1998-09-16 5.608

Judas Kiss

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Drama

Mrs. Bates

1996-08-02 6.624

Emma

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Lady Faulconbridge

1984-11-24 7

The Life and Death of King John

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but th ...
Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

Jean

1969-03-11 6.2

Otley

A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent. ...
Genre :Comedy

Rose Trenchard

2002-02-10 5.3

The Swap

British Tv Movie Thriller ...
Genre :Thriller

Signore Reale

2000-09-19 5.6

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional guidance, Indy consults Sigmund Freud and Carl Jun ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Family, TV Movie

The Wife

1971-10-28 6

Evelyn

'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in The Man who invents a fourth person - a mistress, Ev ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, TV Movie

The Grandmother

1999-10-05 2

The Lost Lover

After their son dies, a Jewish family moves from London to Israel in an attempt to piece their lives back together. The mother finds a way out of her depression through a relationship with a younger m ...
Genre :Drama

Baker on the iPad #1

2016-06-30 5.177

Bakery in Brooklyn

Brooklyn, New York. After the sudden death of their aunt Isabelle, Vivien and Chloe inherit her historic bakery. Vivien wants to keep up the tradition; Chloe feels that the business needs to be modern ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Joan

1976-11-02 0

Buffet

A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a businessman for the occasional drink? His wife and mis ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Virginia Woolf

2000-03-19 4.7

How Proust Can Change Your Life

A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with P ...
Genre :Documentary

Arlene

2021-03-11 6.04

Then Came You

A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets t ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Julia

1989-03-07 0

Tree of Hands

A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Claus

2004-02-13 3.4

Tooth

Tooth is a young, feisty Tooth Fairy, who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies have forgotten about magic, she decides to give aw ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Family

Bridget

1971-12-03 0

The Bristol Entertainment

A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidity that lie behind the facades of a great city. ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Constance Weir

1971-10-10 7.759

Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighbo ...
Genre :Drama

Felicity Dinsdale

1997-03-23 7.485

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1988-01-19 5

That's Love

That's love! is a British television sitcom about the domestic problems of a young married couple, lawyer Donald and designer Patsy. ...
Genre :Comedy

Bea Nelson-Stanley

2007-09-24 7.107

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Sarah Jane Smith is a truly remarkable woman who inhabits a world of mystery, danger and wonder; a world where aliens are commonplace and the Earth is under constant threat. A world that Maria Jackson ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids

Maggie Patton

1979-03-24 6.681

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plet ...
Genre :Drama

Isobel Hogg

2000-02-27 7.304

Monarch of the Glen

Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1983-09-06 6.3

Taggart

Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in oth ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

2005-09-24 7.181

Afterlife

University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

Nancy Bellow

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

1976-01-08 6.5

When the Boat Comes In

A former Army sergeant returns home to an economically depressed Gallowshields in Tyneside at the end of World War One. But this sergeant always lands on his feet... ...
Genre :Drama

Honoria Bird

1975-12-17 6.9

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Maria

1951-12-24 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...
Genre :Drama

Aunt Auriel

2007-04-22 7.091

Kingdom

Kingdom is a British television series created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to hi ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2007-09-03 3.7

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus ...
Genre :Talk

Edith Makepeace

1986-06-09 5

Hell's Bells

Hell's Bells is a 1986 British sitcom produced by BBC Television starring Derek Nimmo as traditionalist Dean 'Selwyn' Makepeace, who finds himself consistently at loggerheads with modernising new Bish ...
Genre :Comedy

1987-09-09 0

Ffizz

Genre :Comedy

1989-01-13 7.94

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe

1989-01-08 8.17

Agatha Christie's Poirot

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 clas ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mrs. Carstairs

2001-06-18 7.19

Waking the Dead

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Mrs. Vaile

1988-01-04 7.1

Clarence

Clarence is a 1988 BBC situation comedy starring Ronnie Barker and Josephine Tewson, written by Ronnie Barker under the pseudonym "Bob Ferris". It was Barker's final sitcom appearance before his retir ...
Genre :Comedy

Daisy Crannagh

2003-01-19 7.6

The Royal

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles. ...
Genre :Drama

1982-11-10 7

The Barchester Chronicles

Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of the clerical establishment of Barchester. Backed by ...
Genre :Drama

Edith Duglass

1991-08-31 6.4

The House of Eliott

Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s. ...
Genre :Drama

1989-11-06 6

About Face

About Face is a series of twelve unconnected half-hour sitcoms all starring Maureen Lipman in the lead role. Each episode featured a guest cast of well known actors and actresses. The episodes were w ...
Genre :

Mrs. Lucas

1979-03-11 5.714

Agony

Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a successful agony aunt but whose own personal life and marriage is a disaster. It was written by Len Richmo ...
Genre :Comedy, Documentary

Lady Margaret

1999-11-07 6.905

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

In a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the leprechauns and the trooping fairies. Jack Woods is appointed to restore harmony...but will peace prevail before ...
Genre :Drama, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

2010-07-26 0

Under the Hammer

Genre :

Alison Murray

1969-06-18 7.7

The Main Chance

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocate ...
Genre :Drama

Magistrate

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Aunt Gwen

1978-04-23 6.3

Come Back, Lucy

Young Lucy is bereaved and sent to live with her cousins. She makes a friend in Alice. But Alice has been dead for over a hundred years and wishes to drag Lucy back in time, to play with her for etern ...
Genre :Kids, Mystery

Lady Carrington

1989-01-08 8.17

Agatha Christie's Poirot

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 clas ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mrs. Timpson

1993-12-03 8

All or Nothing at All

In this compelling story of a daring conman, Leo Hopkins (Hugh Laurie) prospers from the greed of others - but his undeniable charm and willingness to take risks plunge him into a mess of troubles and ...
Genre :Drama

Marjorie

2002-01-01 6.3

Stig of the Dump

Genre :Family, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Mary Bingham

1997-03-23 7.485

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Self - Guest

1994-10-24 0

Ready, Steady, Cook

Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes ...
Genre :Reality

The Wife

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original tel ...
Genre :Drama

Joan

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original tel ...
Genre :Drama

self

2002-10-10 7

Timeshift

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past. ...
Genre :Documentary

Lady Anne Meriot

2012-12-23 6

Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife

Rebecca Kendall has it all: a stunning house, two wonderful daughters and a handsome, loving husband. When Richard dies in a plane crash, Rebecca slowly learns the full extent of her husband’s lies an ...
Genre :Drama

Vicky Jeffreys

1995-03-26 7.5

Hamish Macbeth

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton. The series concerns a local police officer, Con ...
Genre :Drama

Mother

1973-05-01 5.5

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as the title character. The series included dramatizations of Mansfield's life as well as adaptations o ...
Genre :Drama

Rosie McCallion

1955-07-09 5.3

Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were l ...
Genre :Drama

Lady Muriel Sackville

2002-10-27 7.9

Foyle's War

As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later ser ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, War & Politics, Crime

Phyllis

1977-09-21 7

BBC2 Play of the Week

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Miss Cummins

1968-09-10 0

The Jazz Age

An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mrs. Thripp

1975-12-17 6.9

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Marie's Mother

1985-01-06 6.8

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas. ...
Genre :Drama