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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1956-01-11 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK

Phyllis Logan

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

Acting

2025

Miss Austen as Mrs. Austen

2024

No Way Up as Mardy

2023

Surprised by Oxford as Provost Regina Knight

2022

2021

You Really Got Me as Older Linda
The Last Bus as Mary

2020

Misbehaviour as Evelyn Alexander
Our Queen at War as Narrator (voice)

2019

Downton Abbey as Mrs Hughes
Guilt as Maggie Lynch
The Adventures of Paddington as Mrs. Bird (voice)

2018

Girlfriends as Linda

2017

The Good Karma Hospital as Maggie Smart

2013

Shetland as Grace Bain

2011

Vera as Shirley
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant

2010

Downton Abbey as Mrs. Hughes

2009

Nativity! as Mrs. Lore

2008

2006

Missing as Karen Foster

2005

Beneath the Skin as DCI Grace Shilling
Doctor Who as Andinio
Bones as Sandra Zins

2004

Sea of Souls as Elaine
New Tricks as Dr. Mathieson

2003

Alibi as Linda Brentwood
The Royal as Lady George Fawcett

2002

The Real Jane Austen as Mrs. Austen
Fields of Gold as Rachel Greenlaw
Spooks as Diana Jewell

2000

1999

All the King's Men as Mary Beck
Hope and Glory as Annie Gilbert

1998

The Game as Betty
Invasion: Earth as Sqn. Ldr. Helen Knox

1997

Shooting Fish as Mrs Ross
Midsomer Murders as Kate Merrill
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman as Elizabeth Leaming

1996

Secrets & Lies as Monica Purley
Silent Witness as Helen Wharton
Dalziel & Pascoe as Det. Sgt. Jenny Ettrick

1995

Chiller as Anna Spalinsky
Kavanagh Q.C. as Samantha Fisher

1994

Pie in the Sky as Det. Supt. Chalmers

1993

Silent Cries as Nancy Muir
Rik Mayall Presents as Mrs. Wilde

1992

Freddie as F.R.O.7. as Nessie (voice)
Heartbeat as Diane Bell
Heartbeat as Julia Kendall
Heartbeat as Rose Brown

1991

Effie's Burning as Dr Ruth Kovacs
Happy Feet as Dora Jackson

1990

The Dark Sun as Attorney Camilla Staffa

1989

Goldeneye as Ann Fleming
Sitting Targets as Alison
The Angry Earth as Mary Penrys Jones
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Nurse Hopkins

1988

The Kitchen Toto as Janet Graham
The Play on One as Andrea

1987

Bust as Sheila Walsh
Inspector Morse as Julia Stevens

1986

The Inquiry as Claudia Procula
The McGuffin as Anne
Lovejoy as Lady Jane Felsham (archive footage)
Lovejoy as Lady Jane Felsham

1985

The Doctor and the Devils as Elizabeth Rock
Time and the Conways as Kay Conway
Off Peak as Janet
Screen Two as Anne

1984

The Chain as Alison
Nineteen Eighty-Four as The Telescreen Anouncer (voice)
The Dress as Julia

1983

1982

Wogan as Self

1981

The Good Time Girls as Nancy Park

1979

1970

Play for Today as Nancy Park

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The Bombing of Pan Am 103 as Moira Shearer