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Phyllida Law is a Actor and Producer Ecossaise born on 8 may 1932 at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Phyllida Ann Law, OBE (born 8 May 1932), is a Scottish actress.
(2002)
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Birth name Phyllida Ann Law
Nationality Ecosse
Birth 8 may 1932 (91 years) at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Nationality Ecosse
Birth 8 may 1932 (91 years) at Glasgow (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Best films
(2002)(Actress)
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Filmography of Phyllida Law (35 films)
Actress
Add to a movie listThe Time Machine (2002)
, 1h36Directed by Gore Verbinski, Simon Wells
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Action, Adventure
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Alternate history films, Impact events in fiction, Disaster films
Actors Guy Pearce, Samantha Mumba, Mark Addy, Sienna Guillory, Phyllida Law, Alan Young
Roles Mrs. Watchett
Rating60%
In the year 1899, Dr. Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) is a moderately young inventor teaching at Columbia University in New York City. Unlike his conservative friend David Philby (Mark Addy), Alexander would rather do pure research than work in the world of business. After a mugger kills his fiancée, Emma, he devotes himself to building a time machine that will allow him to travel back in time and save her. When he completes the machine four years later, he travels back to 1899 and prevents her murder, only to see her killed by a horse and buggy.
Two Men Went To War (2002)
Directed by John Henderson
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Kenneth Cranham, Phyllida Law, Julian Glover, Rosanna Lavelle, Anthony Valentine, David Ryall
Roles Faith
Rating65%
Sergeant Peter King (Kenneth Cranham) and Private Leslie Cuthbertson (Leo Bill) of the Royal Army Dental Corps passionately desire to see active service, but are held back. Armed with two revolvers and a handful of grenades, they plan an unauthorised mission to occupied France. They write to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, explaining their intention to fight the Germans. After they finally succeed in getting to France, they stumble across a German radar station. They blow up what they take to be the main operations room, and then the entire compound unexpectedly erupts with gunfire and explosions. They narrowly evade the Germans and escape in a boat which is later blown up by a mine; the men are picked up by the British and interrogated as possible spies. Once their identities have been established, they are returned to barracks to be court-martialed as deserters. An aide of Winston Churchill had seen their letter, and knew of a commando raid on the radar facility which was facilitated by a diversion due to mysterious explosions in what they discover was actually the cookhouse. The aide intervenes in the court martial, establishes their presence at the enemy radar station and conveys an invitation to tea with the Prime Minister should they ever be in Whitehall. The court nevertheless demotes Sergeant King to the rank of corporal and remands Private Cuthbertson to military prison for 28 days, lenient sentences for desertion in wartime. A note on screen tells the viewer that the men never meet again.
Saving Grace (2000)
, 1h33Directed by Nigel Cole
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Tchéky Karyo, Martin Clunes, Valerie Edmond, Jamie Foreman
Roles Margaret Sutton
Rating68%
After being unexpectedly widowed, respectable and reserved housewife Grace Trevethyn (Brenda Blethyn) discovers that her late husband ran up significant debts and left her facing foreclosure and numerous repossessions. Well liked around Port Isaac, the coastal fishing town she lives in, Grace is given emotional support by the town's inhabitants, particularly her loyal, pot-smoking gardener Matthew Stewart (Craig Ferguson), his girlfriend and the town's fisherwoman Nicky (Valerie Edmond), and their friend Dr Martin Bamford (Martin Clunes). Despite wanting to help Grace, none of the residents are able to find a way to get her out of her dire situation.
, 2h50Directed by John Henderson
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Randy Quaid, Whoopi Goldberg, Roger Daltrey, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin, Caroline Carver
Roles Lady Margaret
Rating75%
An American businessman, Jack Woods (Randy Quaid), ostensibly wants to spend a calm holiday in the sleepy Irish town Kerry and rents a cottage there. During a hike, he sees Irish beauty Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Orla Brady) swimming naked. Kathleen catches him and chases him off, but Jack is smitten with her beauty. That evening, Jack tries to drown his sorrows in Irish poitín, when he has an encounter with an invisible leprechaun. They struggle for the bottle of poitín, and Jack falls, knocking himself unconscious. The next morning, he sees the little man again and chases him to a nearby river, where the leprechaun falls in. Jack jumps in after him, saving his life (because water is the only thing that can kill the immortal leprechauns), then Seamus Muldoon (Colm Meaney), the saved leprechaun, becomes Jack's new friend. Seamus introduces Jack to his wife Mary (Zoë Wanamaker) and his son, Mickey (Daniel Betts), and shows him the mystical world of the leprechauns.
The Lost Lover (1999)
Directed by Roberto Faenza
Genres Drama
Actors Ciarán Hinds, Juliet Aubrey, Stuart Bunce, Clara Bryant, Phyllida Law
Roles The Grandmother
Rating54%
I Want You (1998)
, 1h27Directed by Michael Winterbottom
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Labina Mitevska, Ben Daniels, Luka Petrušić, Carmen Ejogo
Roles Woman at Hairdresser #1
Rating60%
Martin (Nivola) is an ex-convict who returns home and finds that Helen (Weisz), his former girlfriend, is involved with someone else. Despite this, he pursues her.
Judas Kiss (1998)
, 1h38Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Roscoe Lee Browne, Carla Gugino, Simon Baker, Til Schweiger
Roles Shouting Woman (uncredited)
Rating60%
Coco Chavez (Carla Gugino) and Junior Armstrong (Simon Baker-Denny) are two small-time criminals who make money at blackmail and sex scams. They attempt to break into the big time by kidnapping a computer genius and holding him for a $4 million ransom. To help them, they enlist Lizard Browning (Gil Bellows) and Ruben Rubenbauer (Til Schweiger) who provide firepower and technology. However, during the kidnapping, they accidentally kill the young wife of Louisiana Senator Hornbeck.
Anna Karenina (1997)
, 1h45Directed by Bernard Rose
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide
Actors Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner, James Fox, Fiona Shaw
Roles Vronskaya
Rating62%
Anna Karenina is a young and elegant wife of Alexei Karenin, a wealthy nobleman twenty years her senior. She is unhappy and lives only for their son, Seriozha. During a ball in Moscow, she encounters the handsome Count Alexei Vronsky. Vronsky is instantly smitten and follows her to St. Petersburg, pursuing her shamelessly. Eventually, Anna surrenders to her feelings for him and becomes his mistress. Though they are happy together, their relationship soon crumbles after she miscarries his child. Karenin is deeply touched by her pain and agrees to forgive her. However, Anna remains unhappy and, to the scandal of respectable society, she openly leaves her husband for Vronsky.
The Winter Guest (1997)
, 1h48Directed by Alan Rickman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Emma Thompson, Phyllida Law, Sean Biggerstaff, Gary Hollywood, Sheila Reid, Sandra Voe
Roles Elspeth
Rating67%
Set in Scotland on one wintry day, the film focuses on eight people; a mother and daughter, Elspeth (Phyllida Law) and Frances (Emma Thompson); two young boys skipping school, Sam (Douglas Murphy) and Tom (Sean Biggerstaff); two old women who frequently attend strangers' funerals, Chloe (Sandra Voe) and Lily (Sheila Reid); and two teenagers Nita (Arlene Cockburn) and Alex (Gary Hollywood). The film consists primarily of the interactions between the characters.
Emma (1996)
, 2h1Directed by Douglas McGrath
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette, Ewan McGregor, James Cosmo
Roles Mrs. Bates
Rating66%
The film describes a year in the life of Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow), a congenial but naïve young woman who thinks of herself as a romantic matchmaker in her small community in early-19th-century England. When her governess, Miss Taylor (Greta Scacchi), gets married and goes to live with her new husband, Mr Weston (James Cosmo), Emma proudly takes the credit for having brought the couple together. Her father and their old family friend (and brother of Emma's sister's husband) George Knightley (Jeremy Northam) dispute her claim and disapprove of her trying to make more matches, but she ignores their warnings and sets her mind on setting up Mr Elton (Alan Cumming), the minister who performed the Westons' marriage ceremony, with Harriet Smith (Toni Collette), an unsophisticated young woman on the verges of society.
Before the Rain (1994)
, 1h53Directed by Milcho Manchevski
Origin Macedoine
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Šerbedžija, Grégoire Colin, Phyllida Law, Labina Mitevska, Meto Jovanovski
Roles Anne's Mother
Rating78%
The film is divided into three stories, all of which focus on tragic and ill-fated love affairs.
Junior (1994)
, 1h49Directed by Ivan Reitman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Comedy science fiction films
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, Frank Langella, Pamela Reed, Aida Turturro
Rating47%
Austrian Research geneticist Dr. Alex Hesse (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a nightmare about infants urinating in a library. In the real world, he and his colleague Dr. Larry Arbogast (Danny DeVito), an obstetrician and gynecologist, have invented a fertility drug, "Expectane", that is supposed to reduce the chances of a woman's body rejecting an embryo and thus prevent a miscarriage. Unfortunately, they are not allowed to test it on women since the Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved the drug; so Hesse and Arbogast move forward in their research. In response, Hesse breaks into the laboratory and locks himself in. The head of the review board, Noah Banes (Frank Langella), informs Arbogast that while the FDA has denied their team the right of human experimentation, the team has managed to receive a donation from fellow geneticist Dr. Diana Reddin (Emma Thompson) from the ovum cryogenics department. When Hesse questions the chances of a woman taking an unapproved drug during pregnancy, Arbogast reveals that there is no need to identify the gender of the experiment and convinces Hesse to impregnate himself, using an ovum codenamed "Junior".
The Blue Boy (1994)
, 1h4Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Emma Thompson, Adrian Dunbar, Phyllida Law, Eleanor Bron, David Horovitch, Sandy Welch
Roles Marie's Mother
Rating60%
Joe Bonner breaks off his affair with a lady named Beth when his wife, Marie, falls pregnant. To try and fix their marriage, Joe and Marie go to a hotel in rural Scotland. Marie is told about a young boy who drowned in the nearby loch a century ago. While dealing with Joe's infidelity, Marie cannot get the story of the boy out of her mind and frequently sees his image in the lake.
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
, 1h51Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Michael Keaton, Kenneth Branagh, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Kate Beckinsale
Roles Ursula
Rating72%
Don Pedro of Aragon (Denzel Washington) and his noblemen are visiting their good friend Leonato (Richard Briers) in Messina after having crushed an uprising led by Don John (Keanu Reeves), the prince's bastard half-brother. With him is the misogynistic and witty Benedick (Kenneth Branagh), erstwhile flame of Leonato's equally sharp-tongued and somewhat fierce niece, Beatrice (Emma Thompson). Beatrice and Benedick are both stubborn and proud. Also present are Benedick's "sworn brother" Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), a young count; and Don John who, despite his attempt at rebellion, has apparently reconciled with his brother. Claudio has been thinking fondly of Leonato's gentle and lovely daughter Hero (Kate Beckinsale) since before he went to war, and returns to find her as attractive as ever. Don Pedro, learning of his young friend's feelings, decides to act on his behalf and arranges the match at a party. An unrepentant and ill-intentioned Don John attempts to foil it, but unsuccessfully: the match is made. Needing something to pass the time until the wedding day, Don Pedro decides to arrange a similar fate for Beatrice and Benedick. Of course, with each party being such a “professed tyrant” to the opposite sex, this match will take a little more ingenuity.
Peter's Friends (1992)
, 1h41Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Stephen Fry, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Imelda Staunton, Tony Slattery
Roles Vera
Rating69%
It is New Year's weekend and the friends of Peter (Fry) gather at his newly inherited country house. Ten years ago, they all acted together in a Cambridge University student comedy troupe. Since then they have gone in different directions and various career paths.