Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phyllis Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress, known for playing Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy (1986–1993) and Mrs Hughes (later Carson) in Downton Abbey (2010–2015). She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the 1983 film Another Time, Another Place. Her other film appearances include Secrets & Lies (1996), Shooting Fish (1997), Downton Abbey (2019) and Misbehaviour (2020).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
as Elsie Hughes
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of soc...
No Way Up
2024
as Mardy
Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for s...
Surprised by Oxford
2023
as Provost Regina Knight
Brilliant but emotionally-guarded Caro Drake arrives in Oxford with the singular goal of attaining her PhD, but through a turbulent friendship with a ...
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
2022
as Mrs Cleaver
The story of the great Indian rocket scientist, Shri Nambi Narayanan's life, a true patriot, who was turned into a villain in the blink of an eye afte...
Harold & Mary
2022
as Mary
Harold and Mary are in their fiftieth year of marriage, unfortunately the cracks in their relationship start to show as a disease takes hold of Harold...
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
as Mrs Hughes
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a...
Last Train to Christmas
2021
as Auntie Vi
When successful 80s nightclub manager Tony Towers boards a magical train at Christmas, he discovers that each carriage harbours a different stage of h...
The Last Bus
2021
as Mary
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's ...
You Really Got Me
2021
as Older Linda
It's 1964. James and Linda are young and in love, until one day she disappears. 43 years later he finds her, but James has to find out: is it always b...
Our Queen at War
2020
as Narrator (voice)
Learn how the longest reigning monarch in British history was shaped by World War II. Princess Elizabeth’s experiences during the war mirrored those o...
Misbehaviour
2020
as Evelyn Alexander
A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World ...
Downton Abbey
2019
as Mrs Hughes
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England w...
Downton Abbey Live!
2019
as Self
A live celebration of the hit TV series, including cast interviews and sneak peeks at the 2019 film.
Day of the Flowers
2013
as Brenda
Two young, strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to C...
The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2
2013
as Self
Collection of highlights from the first and second series of British comic Sarah Millican's show about television. The programme includes stand-up rou...
Nativity!
2009
as Mrs. Lore
Paul, charged with directing his school's Nativity play, falsely boasts that his ex-girlfriend plans to turn the production into a film.
Missing
2006
as Karen Foster
A tense two-part psychological thriller about a troubled, homeless girl who gets caught up in the hunt for a violent killer.
Beneath the Skin
2005
as DCI Grace Shilling
A stalker tackles three women in London. First 23-year old likable schoolteacher Zoe Haratounian, who beats off a thief and gets declared a local hero...
Alibi
2003
as Linda Brentwood
A thriller with a bit of romance and touches of black humor along the way. Greg is discovered with the dead body of his wife's lover by Marcey, a publ...
The Real Jane Austen
2002
as Mrs. Austen
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaime...
Fields of Gold
2002
as Rachel Greenlaw
A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at...
All the King's Men
1999
as Mary Beck
Feature-length drama about the mystery of Sandringham Company, which disappeared in action at Gallipoli in 1915. Commanded by Captain Frank Beck, thei...
The Game
1998
as Betty
A play about three Scottish football fans (and one of their long suffering football widow wives!) enduring the trials of their team in the 1978 FIFA W...
Shooting Fish
1997
as Mrs Ross
Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.
Secrets & Lies
1996
as Monica Purley
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cyn...
Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One
1995
as Mrs Wilde
Rik Mayall plays an estate agent who takes on the identity of a dead gangster.
Silent Cries
1993
as Nancy Muir
In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civili...
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993
as Karla
Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name i...
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
1993
as Frau Bunofsky
Franz Kafka has been stricken with a serious case of writer's block on Christmas Eve. He's trying to get started on his latest short story, "The Metam...
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
1992
as Nessie (voice)
The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to solve...
Effie's Burning
1991
as Dr Ruth Kovacs
An elderly lady suffers from the mysterious condition of spontaneous combustion.
And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon
1991
as Andrea
In the women's cancer ward of a large Glaswegian hospital, a group of patients share their hopes and dreams for the future
Happy Feet
1991
as Dora Jackson
The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ba...
The Dark Sun
1990
as Attorney Camilla Staffa
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to p...
Goldeneye
1989
as Ann Fleming
British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.
And a Nightingale Sang
1989
as Helen
Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over t...
Defrosting the Fridge
1989
as Lee
The Lowesthorpe Trawlers an English, American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be thei...
Sitting Targets
1989
as Alison
Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look...
The Angry Earth
1989
as Mary Penrys Jones
About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old woma...
The Kitchen Toto
1988
as Janet Graham
The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1988
as Mary Welsh
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...
The Inquiry
1986
as Claudia Procula
A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
The McGuffin
1986
as Anne
Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhi...
The Doctor and the Devils
1985
as Elizabeth Rock
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple wa...
Time and the Conways
1985
as Kay Conway
1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to con...
Off Peak
1985
as Janet
Because of her cheating husband, Elizabeth elicits patronizing "pity" from her so-called friends, but they (and he) don't suspect her plans.
Every Picture Tells a Story
1984
as Agnes Scott
James Scott's biopic of his father William Scott, his childhood and his origins as a painter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
as The Telescreen Anouncer (voice)
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
End of the Line
1984
as Rose
Life in a Scottish New Town
The Dress
1984
as Julia
A BAFTA award winning drama about a mistake when buying a dress for his mistress leads Howard to look again at his wife.
The Chain
1984
as Alison
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Another Time, Another Place
1983
as Janie
Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilit...
The Good Time Girls
1981
as Nancy Park
The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.