There was something about driving to work every day and you go past the ruins of the forum and think, God, you know, these people actually walked the Earth. It really, really brings it home to you, that Rome existed as a place that we're trying to describe in this drama.
"Lindsay Vere Duncan", Order of the British Empire/CBE is a United Kingdom/Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony Award for her performance in Private Lives, and another Tony Award/Tony Award nomination for her role in Les liaisons dangereuses (play)/Les Liaisons dangereuses. Duncan has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her most famous roles on television include: Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. (TV series)/G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii in the HBO/BBC/RAI series Rome (TV series)/Rome (2005–2007), and Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" (2009). On film she voiced the android TC-14 in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), and she played Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)/Alice in Wonderland (2010). She was appointed CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2009 for services to drama.
More Lindsay Duncan on Wikipedia.Aristocratic women definitely had influence in ancient Rome and knew how to influence powerful men.
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