From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phyllis Logan (born 11 January 1956) is a Scottish actress, known for playing Lady Jane Felsham in Lovejoy (1986–1993) and Mrs Hughes (later Carson) in Downton Abbey (2010–2015). She won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the 1983 film Another Time, Another Place. Her other film appearances include Secrets & Lies (1996), Shooting Fish (1997), Downton Abbey (2019) and Misbehaviour (2020).

Filmography

• A Taste for Murder — Elena Da Vinale
• 2026Village Idiot — Barbara
• 2025Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale — Elsie Hughes
• Miss Austen — Mrs. Austen
• Murder Most Puzzling — Cora Felton
• Play for Today — Barbara Honeybone
• The Bombing of Pan Am 103 — Moira Shearer
• 2024No Way Up — Mardy
• 2023Surprised by Oxford — Provost Regina Knight
• 2022Downton Abbey: A New Era — Mrs Hughes
• 2022Harold & Mary — Mary
• 2022Rocketry: The Nambi Effect — Mrs Cleaver
• Elliott from Earth
• 2021Ladybaby — Sheena Dunbar
• 2021Last Train to Christmas — Auntie Vi
• 2021The Last Bus — Mary
• 2021You Really Got Me — Older Linda
• 2020Misbehaviour — Evelyn Alexander
• 2020Our Queen at War — Narrator (voice)
• 2019Downton Abbey — Mrs Hughes
• Guilt — Maggie Lynch
• The Adventures of Paddington — Mrs. Bird (voice)
• Girlfriends — Linda
• The Good Karma Hospital — Maggie Smart
• 2013Day of the Flowers — Brenda
• Shetland — Grace Bain
• Vera — Shirley
• Downton Abbey — Mrs. Hughes
• Lip Service
• 2009Nativity! — Mrs. Lore
• Honest
• 2006Missing — Karen Foster
• Missing: All Secrets Have a Price
• 2005Beneath the Skin — DCI Grace Shilling
• Bones — Sandra Zins
• Doctor Who — Andinio
• Murder in Suburbia — Wendy
• New Tricks — Dr. Mathieson
• Sea of Souls — Elaine
• 2003Alibi — Linda Brentwood
• The Royal — Lady George Fawcett
• Dickens — Georgina Hogarth
• 2002Fields of Gold — Rachel Greenlaw
• Spooks — Diana Jewell
• The Inspector Lynley Mysteries — Miriam Whitelaw
• 2002The Real Jane Austen — Mrs. Austen
• Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
• 1999All the King's Men — Mary Beck
• Hope and Glory — Annie Gilbert
• Invasion: Earth — Sqn. Ldr. Helen Knox
• 1998The Game — Betty
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman — Elizabeth Leaming
• Midsomer Murders — Kate Merrill
• 1997Shooting Fish — Mrs Ross
• Dalziel and Pascoe — DS Jenny Ettrick
• 1996Secrets & Lies — Monica Purley
• Silent Witness — Helen Wharton
• Chiller — Anna Spalinsky
• 1995Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life — Frau Bunofsky
• Kavanagh Q.C. — Samantha Fisher
• 1995Mirror Man — Anna Spalinsky
• 1995Rik Mayall Presents: The Big One — Mrs Wilde
• Pie in the Sky — Det. Supt. Chalmers
• Rik Mayall Presents — Mrs. Wilde
• 1993Silent Cries — Nancy Muir
• 1993Soft Top Hard Shoulder — Karla
• A Touch of Frost — Christine Moorhead
• 1992Freddie As F.R.O.7. — Nessie (voice)
• Heartbeat — Diane Bell, Julia Kendall, Rose Brown
• 1991And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon — Andrea
• 1991Effie's Burning — Dr Ruth Kovacs
• 1991Happy Feet — Dora Jackson
• 1990The Dark Sun — Attorney Camilla Staffa
• Agatha Christie's Poirot — Nurse Hopkins
• 1989And a Nightingale Sang — Helen
• 1989Defrosting the Fridge — Lee
• 1989Goldeneye — Ann Fleming
• Screen One — Dora
• 1989Sitting Targets — Alison
• 1989The Angry Earth — Mary Penrys Jones
• Hannay
• 1988The Kitchen Toto — Janet Graham
• 1988The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway — Mary Welsh
• The Play on One — Andrea, Dr Ruth Kovacs
• Bust — Sheila Walsh
• First Sight — Kathy
• Lovejoy — Lady Jane Felsham (archive footage)
• 1986The Inquiry — Claudia Procula
• 1986The McGuffin — Anne
• 1985Off Peak — Janet
• Screen Two — Anne, Alison, Lee
• 1985The Doctor and the Devils — Elizabeth Rock
• 1985Time and the Conways — Kay Conway
• 1984End of the Line — Rose
• 1984Every Picture Tells a Story — Agnes Scott
• 1984Nineteen Eighty-Four — The Telescreen Anouncer (voice)
• 1984The Chain — Alison
• 1984The Dress — Julia
• 1983Another Time, Another Place — Janie
• 1981The Good Time Girls — Nancy Park
• 1980The White Bird Passes — Janie (age 16)
• Shoestring — Linda
• Play for Today — Nancy Park

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2025Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale — Self
• 2019Downton Abbey Live! — Self
• 2013The Sarah Millican Television Programme - Best of Series 1-2 — Self
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• Wogan — Self