Phyllida Law

Phyllida Law

1932-05-08 Glasgow, Scotland, UK 47 Credits

Biography

Phyllida Law is a Scottish actress, the mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson.

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Then Came You

Then Came You

2021

as Arlene

6.0
Acting

A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland...

Bakery in Brooklyn

Bakery in Brooklyn

2016

as Baker on the iPad #1

5.2
Acting

Brooklyn, New York. After the sudden death of their aunt Isabelle, Vivien and Chloe inherit her historic bakery. Vivien wants to keep up the tradition...

A Little Chaos

A Little Chaos

2015

as Suzanne

6.3
Acting

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, ...

Three Days in Havana

Three Days in Havana

2014

as The Broker

4.5
Acting

A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.

Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs

2011

as Mrs. Cavendish

6.3
Acting

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a...

Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight

2010

as Ruth

8.0
Acting

A day in the life of 70-year-old Arthur, who falls in love with Ruth, a new resident at his retirement home.

Ways to Live Forever

Ways to Live Forever

2010

as Grandmother

7.2
Acting

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he...

Lecture 21

Lecture 21

2008

as Boheme

6.2
Acting

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symph...

Miss Austen Regrets

Miss Austen Regrets

2008

as Mrs. Austen

6.1
Acting

Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the per...

The Waiting Room

The Waiting Room

2007

as Helen

5.7
Acting

Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful...

Mia Sarah

Mia Sarah

2006

as Sarah

6.0
Acting

In the half-light of a an old stately home, Samuel Davila and his grandfather Paul, once a revered writer, create schemes to repel the latest in a lon...

Miss Potter

Miss Potter

2006

as Mrs. Warne

6.6
Acting

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.

Copying Beethoven

Copying Beethoven

2006

as Mother Canisius

6.4
Acting

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new sym...

Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath

2006

as Esperanza de Mendoza

4.2
Acting

At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can l...

Pinochet in Suburbia

Pinochet in Suburbia

2006

as Lucia Pinochet

6.0
Acting

In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to ...

A Little Trip to Heaven

A Little Trip to Heaven

2005

as Head Mistress

5.4
Acting

Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horr...

Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee

2005

as Mrs. Partridge (voice)

6.7
Acting

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and h...

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

Mee-Shee: The Water Giant

2005

as Mrs. Coogan

5.2
Acting

A New York City oil company troubleshooter is brought to a remote B.C. lake to look for some lost machinery. Cancelling a trip to Disney World with hi...

Unleashed

Unleashed

2005

as Distinguished Lady

6.9
Acting

Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him wit...

Blinded

2004

as Bella Black

Acting

While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside, Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker, and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike...

Tooth

Tooth

2004

as Mrs. Claus

3.4
Acting

Tooth is a young, feisty Tooth Fairy, who lives in a world called Fairytopia that has lost its ability to use magic. Fed up with the way most fairies ...

Brush with Fate

Brush with Fate

2003

as Maria

5.8
Acting

A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.

Two Men Went To War

Two Men Went To War

2002

as Faith

6.3
Acting

Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

2002

as Mrs. Watchett

6.3
Acting

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two...

The Swap

2002

as Rose Trenchard

5.3
Acting

British Tv Movie Thriller

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid

2000

as Signore Reale

5.6
Acting

First love - or first infatuation - overwhelms Indy in Vienna, where he is smitten with the daughter of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. Needing emotional ...

How Proust Can Change Your Life

2000

as Virginia Woolf

4.7
Acting

A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day s...

Saving Grace

Saving Grace

2000

as Margaret Sutton

6.5
Acting

Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husba...

Mad Cows

Mad Cows

1999

as Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)

3.6
Acting

When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up...

The Lost Lover

The Lost Lover

1999

as The Grandmother

2.0
Acting

After their son dies, a Jewish family moves from London to Israel in an attempt to piece their lives back together. The mother finds a way out of her ...

Milk

Milk

1999

as Veronica

2.0
Acting

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies...

Judas Kiss

Judas Kiss

1998

as Shouting Woman (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.

I Want You

I Want You

1998

as Woman at Hairdresser #1

5.6
Acting

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

The Winter Guest

The Winter Guest

1997

as Elspeth

6.5
Acting

It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances has just lost her husband to an early death, so h...

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

1997

as Vronskaya

6.0
Acting

Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 1...

Emma

Emma

1996

as Mrs. Bates

6.7
Acting

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are ...

The Blue Boy

The Blue Boy

1994

as Marie's Mother

5.3
Acting

Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end u...

Before the Rain

Before the Rain

1994

as Anne's Mother

7.4
Acting

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl wh...

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

1993

as Ursula

6.9
Acting

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to...

Peter's Friends

Peter's Friends

1992

as Vera

6.5
Acting

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie...

Tree of Hands

Tree of Hands

1989

as Julia

Acting

A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.

The Life and Death of King John

The Life and Death of King John

1984

as Lady Faulconbridge

7.0
Acting

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisi...

Buffet

Buffet

1976

as Joan

Acting

A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a busi...

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973

as Fraulein Manzialy

6.1
Acting

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...

The Bristol Entertainment

The Bristol Entertainment

1971

as Bridget

Acting

A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidity that lie behind the facades of a great city.

Evelyn

Evelyn

1971

as The Wife

6.0
Acting

'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in Th...

Otley

Otley

1969

as Jean

6.2
Acting

A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.