Phyllis Logan

Phyllis Logan Biography

Phyllis Margaret Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress, best known for playing Mrs Hughes/Carson in Downton Abbey and Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy.

Education

Logan was educated at Johnstone High School in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. After school, she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with the James Bridie Gold Medal in 1977.

Career

After graduation, she joined the Dundee Repertory Theatre. 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. 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 has a home in Chiswick where she lives with her husband, actor Kevin McNally, and they have a son, David, born June 1996. She met Kevin McNally in 1994, they married in 2011.

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 Evening Standard British 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")

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