2000s
Lindsay's longest running role has been Ben Harper in the popular BBC sitcom My Family (2000–11) in which Zoe Wanamaker played his on-screen wife Susan.
In October 2005 he starred in an ITV drama series Jericho, about a Scotland Yard detective investigating murder and kidnapping in London's Soho in the 1950s. In January and February 2006, he was the only actor (as Sneath) to appear in two loosely linked Stephen Poliakoff dramas, Friends and Crocodiles and Gideon's Daughter, shown on BBC One.
He has also portrayed Prime Minister Tony Blair in the Channel 4 satires A Very Social Secretary and The Trial of Tony Blair. In 2003 he appeared in an episode in Absolutely Fabulous, and also narrated the BBC documentary series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003).
Lindsay appeared in the 8th Ricky Gervais Video Podcast in which Gervais announced that Lindsay would be in the second series of Extras. He appeared in the last episode of the series (transmitted in 2006) playing an arrogant, mean-spirited version of himself. He also appeared in the romantic comedy Wimbledon, as the tennis club manager who hires Peter Colt. In 2007 at the Old Vic Theatre, Lindsay played Archie Rice in John Osborne's The Entertainer, a role first performed by Olivier in 1957. In 2009 he played the protagonist, Maddox, from the Radio 4 comedy Electric Ink by Alistair Beaton.
In 2010 he starred in the title role of Derby Live's production of Onassis before its transfer to London's West End. Lindsay stars in the British Sitcom Spy which debuted in October 2011 on Sky 1. (He is to return to the cast in 2012 for a second series.) In November 2011 he starred as Henry in a revival of The Lion in Winter by James Goldman at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, a production which also featured Joanna Lumley as Eleanor, and was directed by Trevor Nunn.
In 2012 he appeared in the Sky detective television series Falcón, episode "The Silent and the Damned", as Pablo Ortega.
Lindsay sings the recorded version of Derby County F.C.'s song "Steve Bloomer's Watchin'", played and sung by the fans at the beginning of every home game, and usually at the start of the second half and after a good win.
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