Phyllida Law

Known for: Acting

Born: 1932-05-08 – 2026-07-27 (aged 94)

From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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.

Filmography (100)

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