Phyllida Law is drawing 122x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Phyllida Ann Law was a Scottish television, film and stage actress. Having trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, she appeared in television series such as Dixon of Dock Green, Rumpole of the Bailey, Kingdom and Foyle's War. Her film credits included Peter's Friends (1992), Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and The Winter Guest (1997). Her daughters Emma and Sophie Thompson are also actresses.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 33 edits to this article on 2026-08-18, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Career

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,469 characters that day. The largest single addition was 819 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-08-18 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

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