Phyllis Logan
| Phyllis Logan | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Phyllis Logan at an event for Downton Abbey Cast and Creators, May 2014 | |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1977-present |
| Spouse(s) | Kevin McNally (m. 1994) |
| Children | David McNally (b. 1996) |
Phyllis Logan is a Scottish actress, best known for playing Mrs Hughes (later Carson) in Downton Abbey and Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy.
Education
Logan was educated at Johnstone High School in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland.[1] After school, she studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.[2]
Career
After graduation, she joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre.[3] She left in 1979 to work on stage in Edinburgh. She also worked regularly on Scottish television. On the BBC Scotland production, The White Bird Passes, she first met writer-director Michael Radford. For his first feature film, Another Time, Another Place (1983), he cast Logan in the leading role of Janie, for which she won a Gold Award for Best Actress at the Taormina Film Festival and the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress in 1983 and the BAFTA Award for the Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film in 1984.[4] Before her recent success in Downton Abbey, Logan was most identified with the role of Lady Jane Felsham, co-starring with Ian McShane for eight years in nearly 50 episodes of Lovejoy, a comedy-drama for television.
She has also had a part in the 1996 Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies. Logan provided the broadcast voice of Ingsoc in a film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) and the Loch Ness Monster in the cartoon Freddie as F.R.O.7 (1992). She was in the radio series Coming Alive and Baggage. She played Inspector Frost's love interest in If Dogs Run Free, the last story in the A Touch of Frost series and marries him. She has played Mrs Hughes, the housekeeper, in all six seasons of the period drama Downton Abbey (2010-2015).
Personal life
Logan met actor Kevin McNally in 1994, and they married on August 15, 2011.[5] Their son David was born in 1996.[5] The family lives in Chiswick.[6]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Red Dress | TV film | |
| 1980 | The White Bird Passes | Janie (Aged 16) | TV film |
| 1980 | Shoestring | Linda | TV series (1 episode: "Mocking Bird") |
| 1981 | Play for Today | Nancy Parks | TV series (1 episode: "The Good Time Girls") |
| 1983 | Every Picture Tells a Story | Agnes Scott | |
| 1983 | Another Time, Another Place | Janie | BAFTA Film Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress |
| 1984 | The Dress | Julia | Short |
| 1984 | Nineteen Eighty-Four | The Telescreen Announcer | |
| 1984 | The Chain | Alison | |
| 1985 | Time and the Conways | Kay | TV film |
| 1985 | The Doctor and the Devils | Elizabeth Rock | |
| 1986 | Scotch and Wry | Various | Video |
| 1986 | Screen Two | Anne | TV series (1 episode: "The McGuffin") |
| 1986 | L'inchiesta | Claudia Procula | |
| 1986–1993 | Lovejoy | Lady Jane Felsham | TV series (47 episodes) |
| 1987 | First Sight | Kathy | TV series (1 episode: "Extras") |
| 1987 | The Kitchen Toto | Janet Graham | |
| 1987 | Bust | Sheila Walsh | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 1988 | The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway | Mary Welsh | |
| 1988 | Hannay | Alison Ross | TV series (1 episode: "Act of Riot") |
| 1989 | The Angry Earth | Mary Penrys Jones | |
| 1989 | Screen Two | Alison | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 1989 | And a Nightingale Sang | Helen | TV film |
| 1989 | Golden Eye | Ann Fleming | TV film |
| 1990 | Il Sole Buio | Attorney Camilla Staffa | |
| 1991 | Screen One | Dora | TV series (1 episode: "Happy Feet") |
| 1991 | The Play on One | Dr. Ruth Kovacs | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 1992 | Freddie as F.R.O.7. | Nessie | Voice |
| 1993 | Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life | Frau Bunofsky | Short |
| 1993 | Soft Top Hard Shoulder | Karla | |
| 1993 | Silent Cries | Nancy Muir | |
| 1993 | Love and Reason | Lou Larson | TV serial (3 episodes) |
| 1995 | Kavanagh QC | Samantha Fisher | TV series (1 episode: "A Family Affair") |
| 1995 | The Big One | Mrs Wilde | TV film |
| 1995 | Chiller | Anna Spalinsky | TV series (1 episode: "Here Comes the Mirror Man") |
| 1996 | Pie in the Sky | Det. Supt. Chalmers | TV series (1 episode: "Coddled Eggs") |
| 1996 | Secrets & Lies | Monica Purley | |
| 1996 | Inspector Morse | Julia Stevens | TV series (1 episode: "The Daughters of Cain") |
| 1997 | Shooting Fish | Mrs Ross | |
| 1997 | An Unsuitable Job for a Woman | Elizabeth Leaming | TV series (1 episode: "Sacrifice") |
| 1998 | Invasion: Earth | Squadron Leader Helen Knox | TV series (1 episode: "The Last War") |
| 1999 | Midsomer Murders | Kate Merrill | TV series (1 episode: "Strangler's Wood") |
| 1999 | Holby City | Muriel McKendrick | TV series (8 episodes) |
| 1999 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Jenny Welthorpe | TV series (1 episode: "Commons") |
| 1999 | All the King's Men | Mary Beck | TV film |
| 1999 | Heartbeat | Julia Kendall | TV series (1 episode: "Stag at Bay") |
| 2000 | Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) | Harriet Banks-Smith | TV series (1 episode: "The Best Years of Your Death" |
| 2000 | Hope and Glory | Annie Gilbert | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2001 | Crust | Bill's Girlfriend | |
| 2001 | NCS: Manhunt | Inspector Anne Warwick | TV film |
| 2002 | Cheap Rate Gravity | Elsie | Short |
| 2002 | Dickens | Georgina Hogarth | TV series (1 episode: "Terror to the End") |
| 2002 | Fields of Gold | Rachel Greenlaw | TV film |
| 2002 | The Real Jane Austen | Mrs Austen | TV documentary |
| 2003 | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | Miriam Whitelaw | TV series (1 episode: "Playing for the Ashes") |
| 2003 | Alibi | Linda Brentwood | TV film |
| 2003 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Nurse Hopkins | TV series (1 episode: "Sad Cypress") |
| 2004 | Out of the Shadows | Liz | Short |
| 2004 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Det. Sgt. Jenny Ettrick | TV series (1 episode: "A Game of Soldiers") |
| 2004 | Murder in Suburbia | Wendy Lloyd | TV series (1 episode: "Episode No. 1.6") |
| 2004 | Silent Witness | Helen Wharton | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2005 | Beneath the Skin | DCI Grace Shilling | TV film |
| 2005–2006 | Spooks | Diana Jewell | TV series (2 episodes: "Episode No. 4.8" and "Episode No. 5.10") |
| 2006 | Missing | Karen Foster | TV film |
| 2006 | Sea of Souls | Elaine | TV series (1 episode: "Sleeper") |
| 2006 | Heartbeat | Diane Bell | TV series (1 episode: "Get Back") |
| 2007 | Trial & Retribution | Anna Wildsmith | TV series (1 episode: "Curriculum Vitae: Part 1") |
| 2008 | Honest | Jenny | TV series (1 episode: "Episode No. 1.4") |
| 2008 | Taggart | Kathy | TV series (1 episode: "Trust") |
| 2008 | The Hero's Journey | Short | |
| 2008 | New Tricks | Dr. Mathieson | TV series (1 episode: "Mad Dogs" Seas 5 Ep 8) |
| 2008 | The Royal | Lady George Fawcett | TV series (1 episode: "Pastures New") |
| 2009 | Heartbeat | Rose Brown | TV series (1 episode: "The War of the Roses") |
| 2010 | Wallander | Inga Wallander | TV series (1 episode: "The Fifth Woman") |
| 2010 | Silent Witness | Jennifer Mears | TV series (2 episodes: "Shadows") |
| 2010 | A Touch of Frost | Christine Moorhead | TV series (2 episodes: "If Dogs Run Free") |
| 2010–2015 | Downton Abbey | Mrs Hughes | TV series (52 episodes) |
| 2012 | Day of the Flowers | Brenda | |
| 2012 | Vera | Shirley | TV series (Episode 8 "A Certain Samaritan") |
| 2010, 2012 | Lip Service | Cat's mother | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2014 | Bones | Sandra Zins | TV series (1 episode: "The Lost Love in the Foreign Land") |
References
- ↑ "Renfrewshire Council - Education". Scotsman.com. 24 April 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2013.
- ↑ "My Scotland". Scotland in Trust: 23. OCLC 49921348.
- ↑ "Every Picture Tells a Story" (press release), james-scott.com, 12/20/1984. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ↑ The Glasgow Herald via GoogleNews, 1 August 1983. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- 1 2 Boshoff, Alison (2 October 2015). "How Downton's unlikely lovebird proved you're never too old for marriage! Actress, 55, who plays Mrs Hughes in drama married her own Carson in real life". Daily Mail. UK. Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
Records kept by Clark County, Nevada, reveal that she married Kevin McNally, a fellow actor, on August 15, 2011. ... [The two met] Tin 1994. Two years later, they had a baby, David.
- ↑ Lawrence, Janie (29 October 2012). "I'll stay in Downton Abbey as long as I can says Phyllis Logan". Daily Express. UK. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2013.