Countess Lydia Deborah Findlay When Anna leaves, Lydia Ivanovna, a society matron, arrives at Karenin's home and announces that she will run the house and advise him on personal matters. She uses religion to keep him close and to demonize Anna, and she succeeds in convincing Karenin that Seriozha should not see his mother. Deborah Findlay won Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for Stanley in 1997. She appeared in Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991) and The End of the Affair (1999) with Ralph Fiennes and will star as Miss Phoebe in ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre's Wives and Daughters.