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Lindsay Vere Duncan CBE (born 7 November 1950) is a Scottish actress. She is the recipient of three BAFTA nominations and one Scottish BAFTA nomination, as well as two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her work on stage. She has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Duncan's film credits include Prick Up Your Ears (1987), The Reflecting ...
Lindsay Duncan CBE (born 7 November 1950) played Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who story The Waters of Mars. She also contributed to the charity reference book Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who. At the time of filming The Waters of Mars, Duncan was fifty-eight years old. As her character was identified by the BBC as the Doctor's companion, this made her the oldest actor to play ...
Dec 19, 2009 · The Waters of Mars: Directed by Graeme Harper. With David Tennant, Lindsay Duncan, Peter O'Brien, Aleksandar Mikic. In a Mars base the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims.
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- 2009-12-19
Set on Mars in the year 2059, the episode depicts the Doctor encountering the first human colony, Bowie Base One, commanded by one-off companion Captain Adelaide Brooke (Lindsay Duncan), who turns out to be a pivotal character in the history of humanity. The Doctor must decide whether to use his knowledge of her fate to change history.
- The episode was originally intended to be the 2009 Christmas special, and writers Russell T. Davies and Phil Ford hence conceived that "Christmas on Mars" would be the story’s conceit (it was also nearly titled both that and "Red Christmas.")
- In another email in The Writer's Tale, Davies mentions going to the cinema and watching three films back to back while struggling with a logistical problem over the third season of Torchwood.
- The scenes in the Mars base’s "bio-dome" were filmed at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. The production crew were surprised to discover that upon turning the lights on, hundreds of birds woke up and began chirping, creating a noise that was impossible to edit out of the episode.
- Bowie Base One is named after the singer/songwriter David Bowie, and is an obvious allusion to his 1971 song Life on Mars?— which also, of course, inspired the TV series of the same name.
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A Banquet was the first acting job Duncan did after lockdown restrictions briefly eased in the summer of 2020. “Everything was new,” she says. “Testing. These.”. She holds up the mask in ...
Doctor Who News. Lindsay Duncan is a Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she won two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her performance in Les Liaisons dangereuses (1985 1986) and Private Lives (2001 2002), and she starred in several plays by Harold Pinter.
