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Acting

Phyllida Law

Career: Active from 1971 to 2020, busiest in 2006 with 4 main titles.

Leading roles: 9
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Before the Rain
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 62 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Phyllida Law Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Violence
2.4, average 4.1
Adrenaline
3.2, average 4.8
Pop Culture
1.0, average 2.2
Scare
1.5, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 5
Psychological Drama 3
Social Commentary 3
Mystery Elements 2
1980s Television 2
Comfort Watch 2
Melancholy 2
Character Study 2
Literary Adaptation 2
Elegant 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

100

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title · average score 60

Then Came You

60

as Arlene

2010s

8 titles · average score 56

Bakery in Brooklyn

32

as Baker on the iPad #1

A Little Chaos

55

as Suzanne

Three Days in Havana

41

as The Broker

Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife

56

TV show · as Lady Anne Meriot

Albert Nobbs

60

as Mrs. Cavendish

Love at First Sight

77

as Ruth

Ways to Live Forever

72

as Grandmother

Under the Hammer

TV show

2000s

30 titles · average score 58

Miss Austen Regrets

67

as Mrs. Austen

The Sarah Jane Adventures

66

TV show · as Bea Nelson-Stanley

Copying Beethoven

54

as Mother Canisius

Pinochet in Suburbia

57

as Lucia Pinochet

Day of Wrath

41

as Esperanza de Mendoza

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

48

as Mrs. Coogan

Nanny McPhee

66

as Mrs. Partridge (voice)

Foyle's War

83

TV show · as Lady Muriel Sackville

Stig of the Dump

70

TV show · as Marjorie

The Time Machine

45

as Mrs. Watchett

Waking the Dead

50

TV show · as Mrs. Carstairs

How Proust Can Change Your Life

as Virginia Woolf

1990s

19 titles · average score 66

The Lost Lover

as The Grandmother

Mad Cows

44

as Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)

The Winter Guest

66

as Elspeth

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Felicity Dinsdale / Mary Bingham

Degrees of Error

TV show · as Margot

Hamish Macbeth

51

TV show · as Vicky Jeffreys

Before the Rain

86

as Anne's Mother

The Blue Boy

60

as Marie's Mother

All or Nothing at All

TV show · as Mrs. Timpson

Much Ado About Nothing

79

as Ursula

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Nancy Bellow

The House of Eliott

73

TV show · as Edith Duglass

1980s

16 titles · average score 75

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe / Lady Carrington

A Bit of Fry & Laurie

85

TV show

Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again

69

TV show · as Annette de Lancel

TV show

Clarence

72

TV show · as Mrs. Vaile

Ffizz

TV show · as Lady Boughton

TV show · as Edith Makepeace

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Marie's Mother

Taggart

70

TV show

The Barchester Chronicles

77

TV show · as Mrs Stanhope

Fame Is the Spur

TV show · as Aunt Lizzie

A Question of Guilt

TV show · as Mrs Blandy

1970s

15 titles · average score 72

Minder

75

TV show · as Magistrate

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Maggie Patton

Come Back, Lucy

TV show · as Aunt Gwen

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as Phyllis

When the Boat Comes In

80

TV show

Abide with Me

as Joan Drummond

Rumpole of the Bailey

77

TV show · as Mrs. Thripp / Honoria Bird

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

TV show · as Mother

The Bristol Entertainment

as Bridget

Upstairs, Downstairs

81

TV show · as Lady Constance Weir

Evelyn

as The Wife

Play for Today

72

TV show · as The Wife / Joan

1960s

8 titles · average score 51

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Jeanette Hornby

The Main Chance

TV show · as Alison Murray

Otley

51

as Jean

TV show · as Miss Margaret

TV show · as Miss Cummins

TV show · as Diana Stevenson

The Troubleshooters

TV show · as Mary Fielding

Drama 61-67

TV show · as Ann Shelley

1950s

3 titles · average score 72

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Greta

Dixon of Dock Green

64

TV show · as Rosie McCallion

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Maria