Phyllida Law
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Phyllida Law OBE (8 May 1932 — 27th July 2026) was a Scottish actress of screen and stage, and the mother of actresses Emma and Sophie Thompson.
Known for
Credits
Nanny McPhee (2005)
as Mrs. Partridge (voice)
The Time Machine (2002)
as Mrs. Watchett
Unleashed (2005)
as Distinguished Lady
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
as Ursula
Miss Potter (2006)
as Mrs. Warne
Emma (1996)
as Mrs. Bates
A Little Chaos (2015)
as Suzanne
Anna Karenina (1997)
as Vronskaya
Albert Nobbs (2011)
as Mrs. Cavendish
Judas Kiss (1998)
as Shouting Woman (uncredited)
Saving Grace (2000)
as Margaret Sutton
Copying Beethoven (2006)
as Mother Canisius
Peter's Friends (1992)
as Vera
Day of Wrath (2006)
as Esperanza de Mendoza
I Want You (1998)
as Woman at Hairdresser #1
A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)
as Head Mistress
Bakery in Brooklyn (2016)
as Baker on the iPad #1
The Winter Guest (1997)
as Elspeth
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
as Fraulein Manzialy
Tooth (2004)
as Mrs. Claus
Miss Austen Regrets (2008)
as Mrs. Austen
Then Came You (2020)
as Arlene
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid (2000)
as Signore Reale
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005)
as Mrs. Coogan
Before the Rain (1994)
as Anne's Mother
The Blue Boy (1994)
as Marie's Mother
Two Men Went To War (2002)
as Faith
Ways to Live Forever (2010)
as Grandmother
How Proust Can Change Your Life (2000)
as Virginia Woolf
Milk (1999)
as Veronica
Three Days in Havana (2014)
as The Broker
Pinochet in Suburbia (2006)
as Lucia Pinochet
Otley (1969)
as Jean
Colleagues From Hell (1989)
Actor
Mad Cows (1999)
as Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)
Brush with Fate (2003)
as Maria
Abide with Me (1976)
as Joan Drummond
The Waiting Room (2007)
as Helen
The Lost Lover (1999)
as The Grandmother
Lecture 21 (2008)
as Boheme
Love at First Sight (2010)
as Ruth
The Life and Death of King John (1984)
as Lady Faulconbridge
The Swap (2002)
as Rose Trenchard
Blinded (2004)
as Bella Black
Tree of Hands (1989)
as Julia
Mia Sarah (2006)
as Sarah
Buffet (1976)
as Joan
The Bristol Entertainment (1971)
as Bridget
Evelyn (1971)
as The Wife