Phyllida Law

Born: 1932-05-08

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


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Nanny McPhee

as Mrs. Partridge (voice)
Released: 2005-10-21

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have...

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The Time Machine

as Mrs. Watchett
Released: 2002-03-04

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years...

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Unleashed

as Distinguished Lady
Released: 2005-02-02

Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart,...

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Emma

as Mrs. Bates
Released: 1996-08-02

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She...

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Much Ado About Nothing

as Ursula
Released: 1993-05-07

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's...

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Saving Grace

as Margaret Sutton
Released: 2000-01-24

Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial...

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Anna Karenina

as Vronskaya
Released: 1997-04-04

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an...

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Judas Kiss

as Shouting Woman (uncredited)
Released: 1998-09-16

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom...

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as Vera
Released: 1992-09-18

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from...

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Albert Nobbs

as Mrs. Cavendish
Released: 2011-12-21

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to...

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Copying Beethoven

as Mother Canisius
Released: 2006-09-10

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony....

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A Little Chaos

as Suzanne
Released: 2015-03-26

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the...

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Before the Rain

as Anne's Mother
Released: 1994-06-09

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war...

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Miss Potter

as Mrs. Warne
Released: 2006-12-03

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles...

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Lecture 21

as Boheme
Released: 2008-10-17

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's...

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Hitler: The Last Ten Days

as Fraulein Manzialy
Released: 1973-04-19

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his...

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The Winter Guest

as Elspeth
Released: 1997-12-27

It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day....

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Bakery in Brooklyn

as Baker on the iPad #1
Released: 2016-06-30

Brooklyn, New York. After the sudden death of their aunt Isabelle, Vivien and Chloe inherit her...

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Three Days in Havana

as The Broker
Released: 2014-03-28

A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.

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Day of Wrath

as Esperanza de Mendoza
Released: 2006-06-27

At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with...

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I Want You

as Woman at Hairdresser #1
Released: 1998-02-15

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

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A Little Trip to Heaven

as Head Mistress
Released: 2005-12-26

Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a...

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Miss Austen Regrets

as Mrs. Austen
Released: 2008-02-03

An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her...

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Then Came You

as Arlene
Released: 2021-03-11

A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they...

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Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

as Mrs. Coogan
Released: 2005-07-14

A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some...

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Two Men Went To War

as Faith
Released: 2002-11-01

Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see...

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Ways to Live Forever

as Grandmother
Released: 2010-10-29

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and...

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Otley

as Jean
Released: 1969-03-11

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

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

as Signore Reale
Released: 2000-09-19

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the...

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Brush with Fate

as Maria
Released: 2003-01-01

A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.

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Love at First Sight

as Ruth
Released: 2010-11-16

A day in the life of 70-year-old Arthur, who falls in love with Ruth, a new resident at his...

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Milk

as Veronica
Released: 1999-01-01

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire...

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The Life and Death of King John

as Lady Faulconbridge
Released: 1984-11-24

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's...

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Pinochet in Suburbia

as Lucia Pinochet
Released: 2006-03-26

In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being...

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The Waiting Room

as Helen
Released: 2007-08-18

Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who...

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The Blue Boy

as Marie's Mother
Released: 1994-07-02

Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a...

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Mad Cows

as Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)
Released: 1999-10-29

When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics,...

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The Lost Lover

as The Grandmother
Released: 1999-10-05

After their son dies, a Jewish family moves from London to Israel in an attempt to piece their...

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Buffet

as Joan
Released: 1976-11-02

A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately;...

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Mia Sarah

as Sarah
Released: 2006-12-15

In the half-light of a an old stately home, Samuel Davila and his grandfather Paul, once a...

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Tree of Hands

as Julia
Released: 1989-03-07

A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an...

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Evelyn

as The Wife
Released: 1971-10-28

'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works...

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Midsomer Murders

as Felicity Dinsdale
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Midsomer Murders

as Mary Bingham
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Lady Carrington
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Minder

as Magistrate
First aired: 1979-10-29

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and...

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Rumpole of the Bailey

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-12-17

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer...

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Waking the Dead

as Mrs. Carstairs
First aired: 2001-06-18

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

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Heartbeat

as Nancy Bellow
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

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Play for Today

as The Wife
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Play for Today

as Joan
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Ready Steady Cook

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1994-10-24

Talented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Maggie Patton
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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BBC Television Shakespeare

as uncredited
First aired: 1978-12-03

The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...

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The Sarah Jane Adventures

as Bea Nelson-Stanley
First aired: 2007-09-24

A British science fiction television programme that was produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC,...

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Upstairs, Downstairs

as Lady Constance Weir
First aired: 1971-10-10

Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For...

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The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

as Lady Margaret
First aired: 1999-11-07

In a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the...

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Taggart

as uncredited
First aired: 1983-09-06

Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of...

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Monarch of the Glen

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-02-27

Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where...

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The Main Chance

as Alison Murray
First aired: 1969-06-18

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972...

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The House of Eliott

as Edith Duglass
First aired: 1991-08-31

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

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A Bit of Fry & Laurie

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-01-13

A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and...

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Hamish Macbeth

as Vicky Jeffreys
First aired: 1995-03-26

Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is...

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Kingdom

as Aunt Auriel
First aired: 2007-04-22

Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for...

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Afterlife

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-09-24

University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events...

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Timeshift

as self
First aired: 2002-10-10

Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its...

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When the Boat Comes In

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-01-08

A former Army sergeant returns home to an economically depressed Gallowshields in Tyneside at...

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Clarence

as Mrs. Vaile
First aired: 1988-01-04

Clarence is a 1988 BBC situation comedy starring Ronnie Barker and Josephine Tewson, written by...

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The Barchester Chronicles

as uncredited
First aired: 1982-11-10

Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into...

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Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife

as Lady Anne Meriot
First aired: 2012-12-23

Rebecca Kendall has it all: a stunning house, two wonderful daughters and a handsome, loving...

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All or Nothing at All

as Mrs. Timpson
First aired: 1993-12-03

In this compelling story of a daring conman, Leo Hopkins (Hugh Laurie) prospers from the greed...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Maria
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Stig of the Dump

as Marjorie
First aired: 2002-01-01

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Agony

as Mrs. Lucas
First aired: 1979-03-11

Agony is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1979 to 1981. It starred Maureen Lipman as a...

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The Royal

as Daisy Crannagh
First aired: 2003-01-19

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled...

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A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

as Mother
First aired: 1973-05-01

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave...

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Ffizz

as uncredited
First aired: 1987-09-09

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Come Back, Lucy

as Aunt Gwen
First aired: 1978-04-23

Young Lucy is bereaved and sent to live with her cousins. She makes a friend in Alice. But Alice...

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