Phyllis Logan

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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