Phyllida Law
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 8, 1932
- Died
- Jul 27, 2026 (aged 94)
- Place of birth
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Credits
- 102
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
Filmography
Then Came You
2020Movie
Arlene
Bakery in Brooklyn
2016Movie
Baker on the iPad #1
A Little Chaos
2015Movie
Suzanne
Three Days in Havana
2014Movie
The Broker
Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife
2012TV
Lady Anne Meriot
Albert Nobbs
2011Movie
Mrs. Cavendish
Love at First Sight
2010Movie
Ruth
Ways to Live Forever
2010Movie
Grandmother
Under the Hammer
2010TV
Lecture 21
2008Movie
Boheme
Miss Austen Regrets
2008Movie
Mrs. Austen
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007TV
Bea Nelson-Stanley
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007TV
Self
The Waiting Room
2007Movie
Helen
Kingdom
2007TV
Aunt Auriel
Mia Sarah
2006Movie
Sarah
Miss Potter
2006Movie
Mrs. Warne
Copying Beethoven
2006Movie
Mother Canisius
Day of Wrath
2006Movie
Esperanza de Mendoza
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006Movie
Lucia Pinochet
A Little Trip to Heaven
2005Movie
Head Mistress
Nanny McPhee
2005Movie
Mrs. Partridge (voice)
Afterlife
2005TV
Mee-Shee: The Water Giant
2005Movie
Mrs. Coogan
Unleashed
2005Movie
Distinguished Lady
Blinded
2004Movie
Bella Black
Tooth
2004Movie
Mrs. Claus
I'll Be There
2003Movie
Mrs. Williams
The Royal
2003TV
Daisy Crannagh
Brush with Fate
2003Movie
Maria
Two Men Went To War
2002Movie
Faith
Foyle's War
2002TV
Lady Muriel Sackville
Timeshift
2002TV
self
The Time Machine
2002Movie
Mrs. Watchett
The Swap
2002Movie
Rose Trenchard
Stig of the Dump
2002TV
Marjorie
Waking the Dead
2001TV
Mrs. Carstairs
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
2000Movie
Signore Reale
How Proust Can Change Your Life
2000Movie
Virginia Woolf
Monarch of the Glen
2000TV
Isobel Hogg
Saving Grace
2000Movie
Margaret Sutton
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999TV
Lady Margaret
Mad Cows
1999Movie
Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)
The Lost Lover
1999Movie
The Grandmother
Milk
1999Movie
Veronica
Judas Kiss
1998Movie
Shouting Woman (uncredited)
I Want You
1998Movie
Woman at Hairdresser #1
The Winter Guest
1997Movie
Elspeth
Anna Karenina
1997Movie
Vronskaya
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Felicity Dinsdale, Mary Bingham
Emma
1996Movie
Mrs. Bates
Degrees of Error
1995TV
Margot
Hamish Macbeth
1995TV
Vicky Jeffreys
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994TV
Self - Guest
The Blue Boy
1994Movie
Marie's Mother
Before the Rain
1994Movie
Anne's Mother
All or Nothing at All
1993TV
Mrs. Timpson
Much Ado About Nothing
1993Movie
Ursula
Peter's Friends
1992Movie
Vera
Heartbeat
1992TV
Nancy Bellow
The House of Eliott
1991TV
Edith Duglass
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
1989TV
Annette de Lancel
About Face
1989TV
Tree of Hands
1989Movie
Julia
A Bit of Fry & Laurie
1989TV
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Mrs Llewellyn-Smythe, Lady Carrington
Colleagues From Hell
1989Movie
That's Love
1988TV
Clarence
1988TV
Mrs. Vaile
Ffizz
1987TV
Lady Boughton
Hell's Bells
1986TV
Edith Makepeace
Screen Two
1985TV
Marie's Mother
The Life and Death of King John
1984Movie
Lady Faulconbridge
Taggart
1983TV
The Barchester Chronicles
1982TV
Mrs Stanhope
Fame Is the Spur
1982TV
Aunt Lizzie
A Question of Guilt
1980TV
Mrs Blandy
Minder
1979TV
Magistrate
Tales of the Unexpected
1979TV
Maggie Patton
Come Back, Lucy
1978TV
Aunt Gwen
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977TV
Phyllis
Abide with Me
1976Movie
Joan Drummond
Buffet
1976Movie
Joan
When the Boat Comes In
1976TV
Rumpole of the Bailey
1975TV
Honoria Bird, Mrs. Thripp
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973TV
Mother
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973Movie
Fraulein Manzialy
The Bristol Entertainment
1971Movie
Bridget
Evelyn
1971Movie
The Wife
Upstairs, Downstairs
1971TV
Lady Constance Weir
Play for Today
1970TV
The Wife, Joan
Menace
1970TV
Mrs. Tetley
Who-Dun-It
1969TV
Miss Margaret
The Main Chance
1969TV
Alison Murray
Otley
1969Movie
Jean
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969TV
Jeanette Hornby
The Jazz Age
1968TV
Miss Cummins
City '68
1967TV
Diana Stevenson
Drama 61-67
1961TV
Ann Shelley
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Greta
Dixon of Dock Green
1955TV
Rosie McCallion
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Maria