Phyllida Law

ACTING

1932-05-08 (94)

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Biography

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

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Biography

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

Best known for:

Filmography:

Hallmark Hall of Fame(1951)

apperead as

Maria

Dixon of Dock Green(1955)

apperead as

Rosie McCallion

Armchair Theatre(1956)

apperead as

Greta

Otley(1969)

apperead as

Jean

The Main Chance(1969)

apperead as

Alison Murray

Play for Today(1970)

apperead as

Joan, The Wife

Upstairs, Downstairs(1971)

apperead as

Lady Constance Weir

Evelyn(1971)

apperead as

The Wife

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield(1973)

apperead as

Mother

Hitler: The Last Ten Days(1973)

apperead as

Fraulein Manzialy

Rumpole of the Bailey(1975)

apperead as

Honoria Bird, Mrs. Thripp

Buffet(1976)

apperead as

Joan

BBC2 Play of the Week(1977)

apperead as

Phyllis

Come Back, Lucy(1978)

apperead as

Aunt Gwen

Tales of the Unexpected(1979)

5.5

apperead as

Maggie Patton

Minder(1979)

apperead as

Magistrate

The Barchester Chronicles(1982)

apperead as

Mrs Stanhope

The Life and Death of King John(1984)

apperead as

Lady Faulconbridge

Screen Two(1985)

apperead as

Marie's Mother

Clarence(1988)

apperead as

Mrs. Vaile

Agatha Christie's Poirot(1989)

apperead as

Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe, Lady Carrington

Tree of Hands(1989)

apperead as

Julia

The House of Eliott(1991)

apperead as

Edith Duglass

Heartbeat(1992)

apperead as

Nancy Bellow

Peter's Friends(1992)

5.3

apperead as

Vera

Much Ado About Nothing(1993)

5.7

apperead as

Ursula

All or Nothing at All(1993)

apperead as

Mrs. Timpson

Before the Rain(1994)

6.1

apperead as

Anne's Mother

The Blue Boy(1994)

apperead as

Marie's Mother

Hamish Macbeth(1995)

apperead as

Vicky Jeffreys

Emma(1996)

5.3

apperead as

Mrs. Bates

Midsomer Murders(1997)

6.2

apperead as

Felicity Dinsdale, Mary Bingham

The Winter Guest(1997)

5.1

apperead as

Elspeth

Anna Karenina(1997)

4.7

apperead as

Vronskaya

I Want You(1998)

4.2

apperead as

Woman at Hairdresser #1

Judas Kiss(1998)

4.2

apperead as

Shouting Woman (uncredited)

Mad Cows(1999)

apperead as

Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns poster

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns(1999)

5.6

apperead as

Lady Margaret

Milk(1999)

apperead as

Veronica

The Lost Lover(1999)

apperead as

The Grandmother

Monarch of the Glen(2000)

apperead as

Isobel Hogg

Saving Grace(2000)

5.2

apperead as

Margaret Sutton

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid poster

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid(2000)

apperead as

Signore Reale

How Proust Can Change Your Life(2000)

apperead as

Virginia Woolf

Waking the Dead(2001)

apperead as

Mrs. Carstairs

The Time Machine(2002)

5.4

apperead as

Mrs. Watchett

Foyle's War(2002)

6.6

apperead as

Lady Muriel Sackville

Stig of the Dump(2002)

apperead as

Marjorie

Two Men Went To War(2002)

apperead as

Faith

The Swap(2002)

apperead as

Rose Trenchard

The Royal(2003)

apperead as

Daisy Crannagh

Brush with Fate(2003)

apperead as

Maria

Tooth(2004)

apperead as

Mrs. Claus

Blinded(2004)

apperead as

Bella Black

Unleashed(2005)

5.8

apperead as

Distinguished Lady

Nanny McPhee(2005)

5.9

apperead as

Mrs. Partridge (voice)

A Little Trip to Heaven(2005)

apperead as

Head Mistress

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant(2005)

apperead as

Mrs. Coogan

Copying Beethoven(2006)

5.1

apperead as

Mother Canisius

Miss Potter(2006)

5.3

apperead as

Mrs. Warne

Day of Wrath(2006)

apperead as

Esperanza de Mendoza

Pinochet in Suburbia(2006)

apperead as

Lucia Pinochet

Mia Sarah(2006)

apperead as

Sarah

The Sarah Jane Adventures(2007)

5.8

apperead as

Bea Nelson-Stanley

Kingdom(2007)

apperead as

Aunt Auriel

The Waiting Room(2007)

apperead as

Helen

Miss Austen Regrets(2008)

4.7

apperead as

Mrs. Austen

Lecture 21(2008)

apperead as

Boheme

Ways to Live Forever(2010)

apperead as

Grandmother

Love at First Sight(2010)

apperead as

Ruth

Albert Nobbs(2011)

apperead as

Mrs. Cavendish

Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife poster

Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife(2012)

apperead as

Lady Anne Meriot

Three Days in Havana(2014)

apperead as

The Broker

A Little Chaos(2015)

4.9

apperead as

Suzanne

Bakery in Brooklyn(2016)

3.7

apperead as

Baker on the iPad #1

Then Came You(2020)

apperead as

Arlene