Biography
Phyllida Law is a Scottish actress, the mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Then Came You
2021
as Arlene
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
2016
as Baker on the iPad #1
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
2015
as Suzanne
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
2014
as The Broker
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.

Albert Nobbs
2011
as Mrs. Cavendish
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
2010
as Ruth
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
2010
as Grandmother
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
2008
as Boheme
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
2008
as Mrs. Austen
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
2007
as Helen
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
2006
as Sarah
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
2006
as Mrs. Warne
Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.

Copying Beethoven
2006
as Mother Canisius
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
2006
as Esperanza de Mendoza
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
2006
as Lucia Pinochet
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
2005
as Head Mistress
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
2005
as Mrs. Partridge (voice)
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
2005
as Mrs. Coogan
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
2005
as Distinguished Lady
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
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
2004
as Mrs. Claus
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
2003
as Maria
A mystery hidden for generations. Now the truth will finally be revealed.

Two Men Went To War
2002
as Faith
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
2002
as Mrs. Watchett
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
British Tv Movie Thriller

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Perils of Cupid
2000
as Signore Reale
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
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
2000
as Margaret Sutton
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husba...

Mad Cows
1999
as Lady Drake (Alex's Mother)
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
1999
as The Grandmother
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
1999
as Veronica
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
1998
as Shouting Woman (uncredited)
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
1998
as Woman at Hairdresser #1
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

The Winter Guest
1997
as Elspeth
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
1997
as Vronskaya
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
1996
as Mrs. Bates
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
1994
as Marie's Mother
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
1994
as Anne's Mother
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
1993
as Ursula
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
1992
as Vera
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
1989
as Julia
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
1984
as Lady Faulconbridge
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
1976
as Joan
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
1973
as Fraulein Manzialy
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
1971
as Bridget
A thousand years of the gossip, scandals, successes, disasters, eccentricities and cupidity that lie behind the facades of a great city.

Evelyn
1971
as The Wife
'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
1969
as Jean
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.