Lindsay Duncan is a Scottish film and stage actress born in Edinburgh on November 7th, 1950. She worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed in several notable plays such as The Merry Wives of Windsor, Troilus and Cressida and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Her first film work was the 1975 television movie Further Up Pompeii! where she played a character named Scrubba. In 1999, she provided the voice for protocol droid TC-14 in George Lucas' Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Archival samples of her work were incorporated into the 2005LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game by LucasArts. Lindsay later went on to play Professor Jane Pretorius in Captain Adelaide Brooke in Jed Mercurio's adaptation of the Victorian horror class Frankenstein. In 2009, she played Captain Adelaide Brooke in the "The Waters of Mars" episode of Doctor Who, briefly taking on the role of companion to the Tenth Doctor.
At the time that the "The Waters of Mars" episode of Doctor Who first aired, fifty-eight-year-old Lindsay Duncan was the oldest companion of the Doctor to date. This was soon surpassed by eighty-year-old Bernard Cribbins in the 2009-2010 two-part Christmas special, "The End of Time".
