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

Midsomer Murders
1999
Agatha Christie's Poirot
2010
Ready, Steady, Cook
2010
Play for Today
1971
Heartbeat
1994
Minder
1994
Screen Two
1996
Tales of the Unexpected
1983
Waking the Dead
2004
Foyle's War
2008
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2010
Rumpole of the Bailey
1978

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
105
2020
Then Came You
as Arlene
2016
Bakery in Brooklyn
as Baker on the iPad #1
2015
A Little Chaos
as Suzanne
2014
Three Days in Havana
as The Broker
2012
Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife
as Lady Anne Meriot
2011
Albert Nobbs
as Mrs. Cavendish
2011
The Royal
as Daisy Crannagh
2011
Midsomer Murders
as Mary Bingham
2010
Ways to Live Forever
as Grandmother
2010
Love at First Sight
as Ruth
2010
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
as Self
2010
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe
2010
Under the Hammer
2010
Ready, Steady, Cook
as Self - Guest
2008
Miss Austen Regrets
as Mrs. Austen
2008
Lecture 21
as Boheme
2008
Foyle's War
as Lady Muriel Sackville
2007
The Waiting Room
as Helen
2007
The Sarah Jane Adventures
as Bea Nelson-Stanley
2007
Kingdom
as Aunt Auriel
2006
Copying Beethoven
as Mother Canisius
2006
Miss Potter
as Mrs. Warne
2006
Pinochet in Suburbia
as Lucia Pinochet
2006
Day of Wrath
as Esperanza de Mendoza
2006
Mia Sarah
as Sarah
2005
Unleashed
as Distinguished Lady
2005
Nanny McPhee
as Mrs. Partridge (voice)
2005
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
as Mrs. Coogan
2005
A Little Trip to Heaven
as Head Mistress
2005
Afterlife
2004
Blinded
as Bella Black
2004
Tooth
as Mrs. Claus
2004
Waking the Dead
as Mrs. Carstairs
2003
Brush with Fate
as Maria
2003
I'll Be There
as Mrs. Williams
2003
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Maria
2003
Timeshift
as self
2002
The Time Machine
as Mrs. Watchett
2002
Two Men Went To War
as Faith
2002
The Swap
as Rose Trenchard
2002
Monarch of the Glen
as Isobel Hogg
2002
Stig of the Dump
as Marjorie
2000
Saving Grace
as Margaret Sutton
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
as Signore Reale
2000
How Proust Can Change Your Life
as Virginia Woolf
1999
Milk
as Veronica
1999
Mad Cows
as Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)
1999
The Lost Lover
as The Grandmother
1999
Midsomer Murders
as Felicity Dinsdale
1999
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
as Lady Margaret
1998
I Want You
as Woman at Hairdresser #1
1998
Judas Kiss
as Shouting Woman (uncredited)
1997
The Winter Guest
as Elspeth
1997
Anna Karenina
as Vronskaya
1996
Emma
as Mrs. Bates
1996
Screen Two
as Marie's Mother
1995
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1995
Hamish Macbeth
as Vicky Jeffreys
1995
Degrees of Error
as Margot
1994
Before the Rain
as Anne's Mother
1994
The Blue Boy
as Marie's Mother
1994
Heartbeat
as Nancy Bellow
1994
Minder
as Magistrate
1993
Much Ado About Nothing
as Ursula
1993
Taggart
1993
All or Nothing at All
as Mrs. Timpson
1992
Peter's Friends
as Vera
1992
The House of Eliott
as Edith Duglass
1989
Tree of Hands
as Julia
1989
Colleagues From Hell
1989
About Face
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Lady Carrington
1988
That's Love
1988
Clarence
as Mrs. Vaile
1987
Ffizz
as Lady Boughton
1986
Hell's Bells
as Edith Makepeace
1984
The Life and Death of King John
as Lady Faulconbridge
1983
Tales of the Unexpected
as Maggie Patton
1982
The Barchester Chronicles
as Mrs Stanhope
1982
Fame Is the Spur
as Aunt Lizzie
1981
When the Boat Comes In
1980
A Question of Guilt
as Mrs Blandy
1978
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Honoria Bird
1978
Come Back, Lucy
as Aunt Gwen
1978
Rumpole of the Bailey
as Mrs. Thripp
1977
BBC2 Play of the Week
as Phyllis
1976
Buffet
as Joan
1976
Abide with Me
as Joan Drummond
1976
Play for Today
as Joan
1975
The Main Chance
as Alison Murray
1974
Upstairs, Downstairs
as Lady Constance Weir
1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
as Fraulein Manzialy
1973
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
as Mother
1971
Evelyn
as The Wife
1971
The Bristol Entertainment
as Bridget
1971
Play for Today
as The Wife
1971
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Jeanette Hornby
1970
Menace
as Mrs. Tetley
1969
Otley
as Jean
1969
Armchair Theatre
as Greta
1969
Who-Dun-It
as Miss Margaret
1968
The Jazz Age
as Miss Cummins
1968
City '68
as Diana Stevenson
1964
Drama 61-67
as Ann Shelley
1963
Dixon of Dock Green
as Rosie McCallion