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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

2010
as Agatha Rose Doherty

Hook

1991
as Granny Wendy

Downton Abbey

2019
as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham

Downton Abbey

2010
as Violet Crawley

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022
as Victoria Crawley

Sister Act

1992
as Mother Superior

Becoming Jane

2007
as Lady Gresham

Gnomeo & Juliet

2011
as Lady Bluebury (voice)

The Secret Garden

1993
as Mrs. Medlock

Sherlock Gnomes

2018
as Lady Bluebury (voice)

The First Wives Club

1996
as Gunilla Garson Goldberg

Quartet

2012
as Jean Horton

I Carry the Gift

2014
as Josette

David Copperfield (1999)

1999
as Betsey Trotwood

Quartet

1981
as Lois Heidler

The Missionary

1982
as Lady Isabel Ames

Eternal Torture

2013
as Michelle

Washington Square

1997
as Aunt Lavinia Penniman

Tea with Mussolini

1999
as Lady Hester Random

Evil Under the Sun

1982
as Daphne Castle

My Old Lady

2014
as Mathilde Girard

Keeping Mum

2005
as Grace Hawkins

Curtain Call

1998
as Lily Marlowe

Capturing Mary

2007
as Mary Gilbert

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006
as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")

A Private Function

1984
as Joyce Chilvers

The Last September

1999
as Lady Myra

Travels with My Aunt

1972
as Augusta Bertram

Othello

1965
as Desdemona

The Lady in the Van

2015
as Miss Shepherd

Go to Blazes

1962
as Chantal

The Millionairess

1972
as Epifania

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969
as Music Hall Star

Better Late Than Never

1983
as Miss Anderson

Gosford Park

2001
as Constance Trentham

Lily in Love

1984
as Lily Wynn

All the King's Men

1999
as Queen Alexandra

Romeo.Juliet

1990
as Rosaline

The Miracle Club

2023
as Lily Fox

California Suite

1978
as Diana Barrie

Richard III

1995
as Duchess of York

The Pumpkin Eater

1964
as Philpot

My House in Umbria

2003
as Mrs. Emily Delahunty

Murder by Death

1976
as Dora Charleston

A Room with a View

1985
as Charlotte Bartlett

The Honey Pot

1967
as Sarah Watkins

The V.I.P.s

1963
as Miss Mead

Hot Millions

1968
as Patty Terwilliger Smith

Death on the Nile

1978
as Miss Bowers

Nowhere to Go

1958
as Bridget Howard

Crew

Movie Sex Kittens Go to College 1960

Guest Star

Episode Armchair Theatre
The Widower
1958
Episode Arena (1975)
Nothing Like A Dame
2018
Episode Carol Burnett and Friends
Born Free/My Buddy/The Third Degree
1974
Episode The Graham Norton Show
Episode 6
2015
Episode Great Performances
Suddenly, Last Summer
1993
Episode Mama's Family
Sketch from Show #909: Teacher's Dilemma
1975
Episode Talking Heads
Bed Among the Lentils
1988