The Tall Guy
James has been nominated four times for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress; for "Dummy" (1977), "The Jewel in the Crown" (1984), "Band of Gold" (1995) and "The Sins" (2000). For her role as Portia in the 1989 Broadway revival of "The Merchant of Venice", she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. She also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1989 Venice Film Festival for "She's Been Away". Her film credits include "Gandhi" (1982), "The Tall Guy" (1989), "Sherlock Holmes" (2009), "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2011), and "45 Years" (2015). Since 2017, she has starred in the Netflix series "Anne with an E" as Marilla Cuthbert, and in the 2019 film "Downton Abbey" as Queen Mary.