Phyllida Law
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Phyllida Ann Law, D.Litt OBE (born 8 May 1932) is a Scottish actress, known for her numerous roles in film and television.
Early life
Law was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Meg "Mego" and William Law, a journalist. Prior to the Second World War, her father was a journalist with the Glasgow Herald who "kept odd hours"; when the war broke out, he went into the air force and separated from his wife, later divorcing. Law would not see her father again until she was 18. Law's mother Meg worked in a dress shop in Glasgow during the war. The family also included Law's brother, James, her elder by five years, and their maternal grandmother, the wife of a Presbyterian minister, and "a fierce Presbyterian" herself whom Law "did not like as a child but can now admire."
After attending Glasgow Girls High up to age seven, the war began in September 1939 and Law and her brother were evacuated to family friends outside Glasgow in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, and attended a local school there, before Law transferred to Skelmorlie, Ayrshire, and then a school near the Clyde. At 13 she passed an entrance exam for Badminton School in Bristol, and became a boarder there. Leaving the school at 17, she initially accepted a place at university to read French and Literature, but disliked the experience and left. She then auditioned for the Bristol Old Vic School, intending to train as a stage designer, and discovered – by "happy mistake" – that she wanted to act instead.
She was married to actor Eric Thompson from 1957 until his death in 1982. Their daughters, Emma and Sophie Thompson, are both actresses.
Career
Law has worked extensively in television, including appearances in Dock Green, Rumpole of the Bailey, and the Bellona Club's 1972 version of Lord Peter Wimsey's The Unpleasantness. She appeared in films including Peter's Friends (1992), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) (playing Ursula with daughter Emma as Beatrice) and The Winter Guest (1997) (playing Elspeth, alongside daughter Emma as Frances).
In 1986, she appeared in La Cage aux Folles in London, portraying Jacqueline.
May Beauchamp appeared in the Rosemary & Thyme episode "Orpheus in the Undergrowth" in 2004. In 2007, she appeared in two Doctor Who spin-off adventures; Bea Nelson-Stanley in The Sarah Jane Adventures' "Eye of the Gorgon" and Beldonia in the audio drama Doctor Who: The Bride of Peladon. In 1963, one of the original four regular leads in Doctor Who, "Miss McGovern" auditioned. She did not win the role, although the role's name was later changed to Barbara Wright.
She appeared in the drama Kingdom with Stephen Fry in 2007. In 2008, she appeared in Foyle's War as a guest star.
Law published her first book in November 2009. Notes from my Mother-In-Law: The 17-year law's mother-in-law lived with the family from the mid-1960s to her death. She appeared with Tony Slattery on Ready Steady Cook in January 2010. In a short film entitled Love at First Sight that was shortlisted for an Oscar in 2012, she appeared alongside John Hurt.