Phyllis Logan
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Education

Logan was educated at Johnstone High School in Johnstone
Johnstone
Johnstone is a town in the council area of Renfrewshire and larger historic county of the same name in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.The town lies three miles west of neighbouring Paisley and twelve miles west of the centre of the city of Glasgow...

, Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire is one of 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland. Located in the west central Lowlands, it is one of three council areas contained within the boundaries of the historic county of Renfrewshire, the others being Inverclyde to the west and East Renfrewshire to the east...

, Scotland. After school, she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a conservatoire of music, drama, and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Educational Association, it is the busiest performing arts venue in Scotland...

 with the James Bridie
James Bridie
James Bridie was the pseudonym of a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and surgeon whose real name was Osborne Henry Mavor....

 Gold Medal in 1977.

Career

After graduation, she joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre
Dundee Repertory Theatre
Dundee Repertory Theatre or Dundee Rep is a theatre and arts company in the city of Dundee, Scotland. It operates as both a producing house - staging at least six of its own productions each year, and a receiving house - hosting work from visiting companies throughout Scotland and the United...

. She left in 1979 to work on stage in Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

. She also worked regularly on Scottish television. On the BBC Scotland production, The White Bird Passes, she first met writer-director Michael Radford
Michael Radford
Michael Radford is an English film director and screenwriter.-Early life and career:Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford...

. In his first feature film, Another Time, Another Place in 1982, he cast her 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.

She has also had parts in the 1996 Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh
Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...

 film Secrets & Lies and a regular role as Lady Jane Felsham in the television series Lovejoy
Lovejoy
Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia, a less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue. The episodes were based on a series of picaresque novels by John Grant...

. Logan provided the broadcast voice of Ingsoc
Ingsoc
Ingsoc is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian science fiction novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.-Fictionalised origin of Ingsoc:...

 in the film version of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party...

and the Loch Ness Monster
Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to the next....

 in the cartoon Freddie as F.R.O.7
Freddie as F.R.O.7
Freddie as F.R.O.7 is a 1992 British animated film written and directed by Jon Acevski. It is a parody of James Bond. The film was inspired by bedtime stories Acevski told to his son about his favourite toy frog working as a secret agent. -Plot:...

. She was in the radio series Coming Alive and Baggage
Baggage (radio show)
Baggage is a BBC Radio 4 situation comedy which by August 2009 had aired for 4 series, each consisting of 6 30-minute episodes. Series 1 aired from April 2005, Series 2 from July 2006, Series 3 from December 2007 and Series 4 from July 2009....

. She played Inspector Frost's love interest in If Dogs Run Free, the very last story in the A Touch of Frost series, and marries him. She played Mrs Hughes, the housekeeper, in both first and second series of the period drama Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by NBC Universal-owned British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the late Edwardian era and the First World War on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire, and features an...

(2010-11).

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
1977 Red Dress TV movie
1980 The White Bird Passes Janie (Aged 16) TV movie
Shoestring Linda TV series (1 episode: "Mocking Bird")
1981 Play for Today
Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted...

Nancy Parks TV series (1 episode: "The Good Time Girls")
1983 Every Picture Tells a Story
Every Picture Tells a Story
Every Picture Tells a Story is the third album by Rod Stewart, released in the middle of 1971. It went to number one on both the UK and U.S. charts and finished third in the Pazz & Jop critics' poll for best album of 1971...

Agnes Scott
Another Time, Another Place
Another Time, Another Place (1983 film)
Another Time, Another Place is a 1983 British drama film directed by Michael Radford and starring Phyllis Logan, Giovanni Mauriello and Denise Coffey...

Janie BAFTA Film Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer to Film 
BAFTA Film Award for Best Actress
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognise an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.- Winners and nominees :...

 

Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress
Evening Standard British Film Awards
The Evening Standard British Film Awards were established in 1973 by the British London area evening newspaper Evening Standard. The Standard Awards is the only ceremony "dedicated to British and Irish talent," judged by a panel of "top UK critics." Each ceremony honours films from the previous...

1984 The Dress Julia short
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is a dystopian novel about Oceania, a society ruled by the oligarchical dictatorship of the Party...

The Telescreen Announcer
The Chain
The Chain
"The Chain" is a song from Fleetwood Mac's best-selling album Rumours. "The Chain" is unique in being the only song credited to all five members of the Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac lineup: Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie, Stevie Nicks; this is partly because John McVie...

Alison
1985 Time and the Conways
Time and the Conways
Time and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory Of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937...

Kay TV movie
The Doctor and the Devils
The Doctor and the Devils
The Doctor and the Devils is a 1985 horror film directed by Freddie Francis. It stars Timothy Dalton and Jonathan Pryce.-Cast:*Timothy Dalton as Doctor Thomas Rock*Jonathan Pryce as Robert Fallon*Twiggy as Jennie Bailey*Julian Sands as Dr. Murray...

Elizabeth Rock
1986 Scotch and Wry
Scotch and Wry
Scotch and Wry was a Scottish comedy sketch show which was broadcast on BBC One Scotland and starred Rikki Fulton. After two series, in 1978 and 1979, the programme continued as a regular part of the channel's Hogmanay celebrations between 1980 and 1992...

Various video
Screen Two Anne TV series (1 episode: "The McGuffin")
L'inchiesta Claudia Procula
Lovejoy
Lovejoy
Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia, a less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue. The episodes were based on a series of picaresque novels by John Grant...

Lady Jane Felsham TV series (47 episodes: 1986-1994)
1987 First Sight Kathy TV series (1 episode: "Extras")
The Kitchen Toto
The Kitchen Toto
The Kitchen Toto is a 1987 British drama film directed by Harry Hook and starring Edwin Mahinda, Bob Peck and Phyllis Logan. In Kenya 1950, a British policeman takes a murdered black priest's son to live with him at his home as a houseboy.-Cast:...

Janet Graham
Bust Sheila Walsh TV series (6 episodes)
1988 The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Hannay Alison Ross TV series (1 episode: "Act of Riot")
1989 The Angry Earth Mary Penrys Jones
Screen Two Alison TV series (2 episodes)
And a Nightingale Sang
And a Nightingale Sang
And a Nightingale Sang is a play by British playwright C.P. Taylor and commissioned by Newcastle upon Tyne's Live Theatre Company. The play was made into a TV play in 1989 by Jack Rosenthal for Tyne Tees Television....

Helen TV movie
Goldeneye
GoldenEye
GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming...

Ann Fleming TV movie
1990 Il Sole Buio Attorney Camilla Staffa
1991 Screen One
Screen One
Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 between 1989 to 1993.Following the demise of the BBC's Play For Today which ran from 1970 to 1984, producer Kenneth Trodd was asked to formulate a new series of one-off television dramas...

Dora TV series (1 episode: "Happy Feet")
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
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life is a short comic film for BBC Scotland. It was written and directed by Peter Capaldi, it stars Richard E. Grant as Franz Kafka, and co-stars Ken Stott....

Frau Bunofsky short
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Soft Top Hard Shoulder is a 1993 British comedy drama film directed by Stefan Schwartz, produced by Richard Holmes and starring Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Jeremy Northam and Richard Wilson. A man has to reach his estranged father's birthday party in time to inherit a large sum of money. Winner...

Karla
Silent Cries Nancy Muir
Love and Reason Lou Larson TV mini-series (3 episodes)
1995 Kavanagh QC
Kavanagh QC
Kavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. It has been shown on ITV3 as recently as August 2011; series 1–6 are available on Region 2 DVDs....

Samantha Fisher TV series (1 episode: "A Family Affair")
The Big One Mrs Wilde TV movie
Chiller
Chiller
A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid via a vapor-compression or absorption refrigeration cycle. This liquid can then be circulated through a heat exchanger to cool air or equipment as required.-Use in air conditioning:...

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")
Secrets & Lies Monica Purley
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse is a fictional character in the eponymous series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, as well as the 33-episode 1987–2000 television adaptation of the same name, in which the character was portrayed by John Thaw. Morse is a senior CID officer with the Thames Valley...

Julia Stevens TV series (1 episode: "The Daughters of Cain")
1997 Shooting Fish
Shooting Fish
Shooting Fish is a 1997 British film co-written by Richard Holmes and Stefan Schwartz. Holmes produced and Schwartz directed. It co-starred Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as two con men with Kate Beckinsale as their unwilling assistant. It was produced by Winchester Films and partly funded by...

Mrs Ross
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
An Unsuitable Job For A Woman is the title of a 1972 detective novel by P. D. James - and also the title of a TV series of four dramas developed from that novel....

Elizabeth Leaming TV series (1 episode: "Sacrifice")
1998 Invasion: Earth
Invasion: Earth (TV series)
Invasion: Earth is a BBC science fiction TV series. It was made in collaboration with the Sci Fi Channel, and released in 1998 as six fifty minute episodes.-Creation and production:...

Squadron Leader Helen Knox TV series (1 episode: "The Last War")
1999 Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...

Kate Merrill TV series (1 episode: "Strangler's Wood")
Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...

Muriel McKendrick TV series (8 episodes)
Rab C. Nesbitt
Rab C. Nesbitt
Rab C. Nesbitt is a Scottish sitcom which began in 1988. Produced by BBC Scotland, it stars Gregor Fisher as an alcoholic Glaswegian who believed unemployment was the life for him...

Jenny Welthorpe TV series (1 episode: "Commons")
All the King's Men
All the King's Men
All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men....

Mary Beck TV movie
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
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory (TV series)
Hope and Glory is a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with closure...

Annie Gilbert TV series (6 episodes)
2001 Crust Bill's Girlfriend
NCS: Manhunt
NCS: Manhunt
NCS: Manhunt is a British crime drama television series starring David Suchet, and based on the National Crime Squad. Created by Malcolm McKay, the first series premiered with two episodes on BBC One on 26—27 March 2001...

Inspector Anne Warwick TV movie
2002 Cheap Rate Gravity Elsie short
Dickens Georgina Hogarth TV series (1 episode: "Terror to the End")
Fields of Gold Rachel Greenlaw TV movie
The Real Jane Austen Mrs Austen TV documentary
2003 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a series of BBC television programmes about Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers...

Miriam Whitelaw TV series (1 episode: "Playing for the Ashes")
Alibi Linda Brentwood TV movie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...

Nurse Hopkins TV series (1 episode: "Sad Cypress
Sad Cypress
Sad Cypress is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March 1940 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year...

")
2004 Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows
Out Of The Shadows is a 1962 rock album by British group The Shadows. It was their second album.-Track listing:-Chart positions:-Personnel:* Hank Marvin – Lead Guitar, piano and vocals* Bruce Welch – Rhythm guitar and vocals...

Liz short
Dalziel and Pascoe
Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)
Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...

Det. Sgt. Jenny Ettrick TV series (1 episode: "A Game of Soldiers)
Murder in Suburbia
Murder in Suburbia
Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005.-Plot summary:The series focused on various murders in the fictional suburban England town of Middleford; filming took place in North West London, including Northwood.-Regular cast and characters:-Episode...

Wendy Lloyd TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.6")
Silent Witness
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...

Helen Wharton TV series (2 episodes)
2005 Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin
-Track listing:#Violet's Dance - 3:17#Beneath the Skin - 6:18#Falling Up - 5:01#Deep - 3:17#Black - 4:13#Strange - 5:18#Dreams & Illusions - 6:12#Have Faith - 4:58#Pandora's Box - 7:56#95&7 - 2:21#Deep - 3:42...

DCI Grace Shilling TV movie
Spooks
Spooks
Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...

Diana Jewell TV series (1 episode: "Episode #4.8")
2006 Missing Karen Foster TV movie
Sea of Souls
Sea of Souls
Sea of Souls is a BBC paranormal drama series, based around the fictional activities of a group of investigators into psychic and other paranormal events. Produced in-house by BBC Scotland, initially in association with Sony Pictures Television International, the series debuted on BBC One in the UK...

Elaine TV series (1 episode: "Sleeper")
Spooks
Spooks
Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...

Diana Jewell TV series (1 episode: "Episode #5.10")
Heartbeat Diane Bell TV series (1 episode: "Get Back")
2007 Trial and Retribution Anna Wildsmith TV series (1 episode: "Curriculum Vitae: Part 1")
2008 Honest Jenny TV series (1 episode: "Episode #1.4")
Taggart
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme, created by Glenn Chandler, who has written many of the episodes, and made by STV Productions for the ITV network...

Kathy TV series (1 episode: "Trust")
The Hero's Journey short
New Tricks Dr. Mathieson TV series (1 episode: "Mad Dogs")
The Royal
The Royal
The Royal is a British medical drama series produced by ITV. The show comprises one hour episodes which were normally first aired on ITV in the Sunday early evening slot....

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")
Silent Witness
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...

Jennifer Mears TV series (2 episodes)
A Touch of Frost Christine Moorhead TV series (2 episodes)
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by NBC Universal-owned British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the late Edwardian era and the First World War on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire, and features an...

Mrs Hughes TV series (7 episodes)
Day of the Flowers Brenda post-production

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