Scottish stage actresses

Edith MacArthur (8 March 1926 – 25 April 2018) was a Scottish actress noted for her elegant screen presence.

Phyllida Ann Law (born 6 July 1932) is a British actress, known for her numerous roles in film and television.

Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars (6 May 1921 – 30 December 2019) was a Scottish actress.

Morag Hood (12 December 1942 – 5 October 2002) was a British actress who featured in numerous television programmes, stage productions, and audio presentations in the UK from the 1960s up to the late 1990s.

Eileen Herlie (March 8, 1918 – October 8, 2008) was a Scottish-American actress.

Hannah Campbell Grant Gordon (born 9 April 1941) is a Scottish actress and presenter who is known for her television work in the United Kingdom, including My Wife Next Door (1972), Upstairs, Downstairs (1974–75), Telford's Change (1979), Joint Account (1989–90) and an appearance in the final episode of One Foot in the Grave, broadcast in 2000. She has presented the Channel 4 lifestyle show Watercolour Challenge from 1998 to 2001 and played Ann Treves in David Lynch's 1980 film The Elephant Man. She is sometimes credited under her first married name of Hannah Warwick.

Lesley Fitz-Simons (23 September 1961 – 26 January 2013) was a Scottish actress best known for playing the role of Sheila Ramsay in STV's soap opera Take the High Road.
Fitz-Simons was born in Glasgow and brought up in Milton of Campsie, then Stirlingshire, She had an early role as a teenager in the television series The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in 1978. At the age of 21, she joined the cast of Take the High Road and played the role of Sheila Ramsay until the programme was cancelled in 2003.She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009 and died in hospital in Glasgow on 26 January 2013, aged 51. She had one daughter, Marnie.

Janet McLuckie Brown (14 December 1923 – 27 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedian and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher. Brown was the wife of Peter Butterworth, who was best known for his appearances in the Carry On films. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried.

Valerie Edmond (born 1969) is a Scottish actress.
Her first notable role was in The Sunshine Boys at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, directed by Maureen Lipman, soon after she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Lipman was sufficiently impressed to cast her again, as her secretary in an episode of the TV series Agony Again, and would later describe Edmond as "six foot tall, with the bones of a Slav, the legs of a supermodel and the heart of a small fawn" in her 1995 You Can Read Me Like a Book.Her first leading role was the character of Ashley in the BAFTA-nominated The Crow Road, the BBC Scotland adaptation of the novel by Iain Banks. Edmond herself was nominated as Best Actress at the BAFTA Scotland Awards. She would later play the lead in the award-winning One More Kiss, directed by Vadim Jean.

Daniela Nardini (born 26 April 1968, Largs) is a Scottish actress who played Anna Forbes in the BBC Two television series This Life. The role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress award in 1998 and also earned her a Scottish BAFTA. She won a second Scottish BAFTA in 2009 for her role in Annie Griffin's New Town.