Phyllida Law: movies and TV shows
Phyllida Law has 103 credits in the archive: 49 films and 54 TV series, from 1951 to 2020. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1951 – 2020 · busiest year: 1989 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Then Came You | Arlene | Film | 6.0 | 88 |
| 2016 | Bakery in Brooklyn | Baker on the iPad #1 | Film | 5.2 | 84 |
| 2015 | A Little Chaos | Suzanne | Film | 6.3 | 83 |
| 2014 | Three Days in Havana | The Broker | Film | 4.5 | 82 |
| 2012 | Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife | Lady Anne Meriot | TV | 6.0 | 80 |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs | Mrs. Cavendish | Film | 6.3 | 79 |
| 2010 | Ways to Live Forever | Grandmother | Film | 7.0 | 78 |
| 2010 | Love at First Sight | Ruth | Film | 7.7 | 78 |
| 2010 | Under the Hammer | TV | — | 78 | |
| 2008 | Lecture 21 | Boheme | Film | 6.1 | 76 |
| 2008 | Miss Austen Regrets | Mrs. Austen | Film | 6.1 | 76 |
| 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Self | TV | 4.5 | 75 |
| 2007 | The Sarah Jane Adventures | Bea Nelson-Stanley | TV | 7.1 | 75 |
| 2007 | Kingdom | Aunt Auriel | TV | 7.1 | 75 |
| 2007 | The Waiting Room | Helen | Film | 5.4 | 75 |
| 2006 | Miss Potter | Mrs. Warne | Film | 6.6 | 74 |
| 2006 | Copying Beethoven | Mother Canisius | Film | 6.5 | 74 |
| 2006 | Day of Wrath | Esperanza de Mendoza | Film | 4.3 | 74 |
| 2006 | Pinochet in Suburbia | Lucia Pinochet | Film | 5.3 | 74 |
| 2006 | Mia Sarah | Sarah | Film | 7.0 | 74 |
| 2005 | A Little Trip to Heaven | Head Mistress | Film | 5.4 | 73 |
| 2005 | Nanny McPhee | Mrs. Partridge (voice) | Film | 6.7 | 73 |
| 2005 | Afterlife | TV | 7.2 | 73 | |
| 2005 | Unleashed | Distinguished Lady | Film | 6.9 | 73 |
| 2005 | Mee-Shee: The Water Giant | Mrs. Coogan | Film | 5.5 | 73 |
| 2004 | Tooth | Mrs. Claus | Film | 4.1 | 72 |
| 2004 | Blinded | Bella Black | Film | 8.0 | 72 |
| 2003 | Brush with Fate | Maria | Film | 6.0 | 71 |
| 2003 | The Royal | Daisy Crannagh | TV | 7.8 | 71 |
| 2002 | Foyle's War | Lady Muriel Sackville | TV | 7.9 | 70 |
| 2002 | Timeshift | self | TV | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2002 | The Time Machine | Mrs. Watchett | Film | 6.3 | 70 |
| 2002 | Two Men Went To War | Faith | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 2002 | Stig of the Dump | Marjorie | TV | 7.0 | 70 |
| 2002 | The Swap | Rose Trenchard | Film | 6.5 | 70 |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Mrs. Carstairs | TV | 7.2 | 69 |
| 2000 | Monarch of the Glen | Isobel Hogg | TV | 7.3 | 68 |
| 2000 | Saving Grace | Margaret Sutton | Film | 6.5 | 68 |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid | Signore Reale | Film | 5.8 | 68 |
| 2000 | How Proust Can Change Your Life | Virginia Woolf | Film | 5.2 | 68 |
| 1999 | The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | Lady Margaret | TV | 6.9 | 67 |
| 1999 | The Lost Lover | The Grandmother | Film | 3.7 | 67 |
| 1999 | Mad Cows | Lady Drake (Alex's Mother) | Film | 4.4 | 67 |
| 1999 | Milk | Veronica | Film | 4.0 | 67 |
| 1998 | I Want You | Woman at Hairdresser #1 | Film | 5.6 | 66 |
| 1998 | Judas Kiss | Shouting Woman (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 66 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Felicity Dinsdale | TV | 7.5 | 65 |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Mary Bingham | TV | 7.5 | 65 |
| 1997 | Anna Karenina | Vronskaya | Film | 6.1 | 65 |
| 1997 | The Winter Guest | Elspeth | Film | 6.5 | 65 |
| 1996 | Emma | Mrs. Bates | Film | 6.6 | 64 |
| 1995 | Hamish Macbeth | Vicky Jeffreys | TV | 7.7 | 63 |
| 1995 | Degrees of Error | Margot | TV | — | 63 |
| 1994 | Ready, Steady, Cook | Self - Guest | TV | 8.0 | 62 |
| 1994 | Before the Rain | Anne's Mother | Film | 7.4 | 62 |
| 1994 | The Blue Boy | Marie's Mother | Film | 6.3 | 62 |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing | Ursula | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1993 | All or Nothing at All | Mrs. Timpson | TV | 8.2 | 61 |
| 1992 | Heartbeat | Nancy Bellow | TV | 7.2 | 60 |
| 1992 | Peter's Friends | Vera | Film | 6.6 | 60 |
| 1991 | The House of Eliott | Edith Duglass | TV | 6.6 | 59 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe | TV | 8.2 | 57 |
| 1989 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Lady Carrington | TV | 8.2 | 57 |
| 1989 | A Bit of Fry & Laurie | TV | 7.9 | 57 | |
| 1989 | About Face | TV | 7.0 | 57 | |
| 1989 | Tree of Hands | Julia | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 1989 | Colleagues From Hell | Film | — | 57 | |
| 1988 | That's Love | TV | 6.3 | 56 | |
| 1988 | Clarence | Mrs. Vaile | TV | 7.1 | 56 |
| 1987 | Ffizz | Lady Boughton | TV | — | 55 |
| 1986 | Hell's Bells | Edith Makepeace | TV | 7.5 | 54 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Marie's Mother | TV | 7.1 | 53 |
| 1984 | The Life and Death of King John | Lady Faulconbridge | Film | 7.3 | 52 |
| 1983 | Taggart | TV | 6.4 | 51 | |
| 1982 | The Barchester Chronicles | Mrs Stanhope | TV | 7.3 | 50 |
| 1982 | Fame Is the Spur | Aunt Lizzie | TV | 6.0 | 50 |
| 1980 | A Question of Guilt | Mrs Blandy | TV | — | 48 |
| 1979 | Minder | Magistrate | TV | 7.2 | 47 |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Maggie Patton | TV | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1978 | Come Back, Lucy | Aunt Gwen | TV | 7.3 | 46 |
| 1977 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Phyllis | TV | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1976 | When the Boat Comes In | TV | 7.7 | 44 | |
| 1976 | Abide with Me | Joan Drummond | Film | — | 44 |
| 1976 | Buffet | Joan | Film | 9.0 | 44 |
| 1975 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Honoria Bird | TV | 7.1 | 43 |
| 1975 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Mrs. Thripp | TV | 7.1 | 43 |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | Fraulein Manzialy | Film | 6.2 | 41 |
| 1973 | A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | Mother | TV | 6.0 | 41 |
| 1971 | Upstairs, Downstairs | Lady Constance Weir | TV | 7.8 | 39 |
| 1971 | The Bristol Entertainment | Bridget | Film | — | 39 |
| 1971 | Evelyn | The Wife | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | The Wife | TV | 6.6 | 38 |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Joan | TV | 6.6 | 38 |
| 1970 | Menace | Mrs. Tetley | TV | — | 38 |
| 1969 | The Main Chance | Alison Murray | TV | 8.3 | 37 |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Jeanette Hornby | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1969 | Otley | Jean | Film | 6.3 | 37 |
| 1968 | The Jazz Age | Miss Cummins | TV | — | 36 |
| 1967 | City '68 | Diana Stevenson | TV | — | 35 |
| 1961 | Drama 61-67 | Ann Shelley | TV | — | 29 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Greta | TV | 6.0 | 24 |
| 1955 | Dixon of Dock Green | Rosie McCallion | TV | 6.0 | 23 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Maria | TV | 8.8 | 19 |