Paula Duncan

Paula Duncan

Born: September 15, 1952
in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
Paula Margaret Duncan is an Australian actress. Her numerous television roles include playing Nurse Lisa Brooks in The Young Doctors, Detective Danni Francis in Cop Shop, for which she twice won the Logie Award for Most Popular Actress, Lorelei Wilkinson in Prisoner, Janet Bryant in Richmond Hill and Bridget Jackson in Home and Away.

Movies for Paula Duncan...

Unsound
Title: Unsound
Character: Angela
Released: February 25, 2020
Type: Movie
A disillusioned musician's romantic spark is ignited by a young trans man as they work together to save his community nightclub for the deaf.
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Title: First Dates Australia
Character: Herself
Released: February 3, 2016
Type: TV
When the First Dates restaurant sets the table, hopeful singles from across the country will have a chance of meeting their dream partner. They’ve turned their backs on online dating in the hope of meeting someone special face-to-face, and they’ll meet their potential love match for the very first time in the restaurant.
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Braille
Title: Braille
Character: Madam
Released: September 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Nick's blindness is symbolic to his regret for leaving his friend Michael behind during a diamond heist in Sierra Leone. He is unable to 'face his own reflection'. The 'black' world that Nick lives in becomes a punishment he places upon himself, almost like an extended prison sentence. He has lived in this world for so long that, he is afraid to see the 'light'. This is until the day he sets out to right his wrongs. Upon returning back to Australia after the incident in Sierra Leone, Nick is arrested for diamond smuggling. Undiscovered by the authorities, the most precious diamond is hidden inside him. Once incarcerated, he hides the diamond in his prison cell. This is where he is blinded by the people he stole the diamond from. 15 years on he lives alone and forgotten. The day he realizes he has cancer is the day he faces the regret and remorse for his friend Michael. He decides to finish what he started, to get back the diamond he once hid in the prison cell
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Title: East of Everything
Character: Pauline
Released: March 30, 2008
Type: TV
East of Everything is an Australian drama television series which began screening on 30 March 2008 on the ABC. It is produced by Deborah Cox, Fiona Eagger and Roger Monk. Two seasons were produced. East of Everything revolves around a globe-trotting travel writer who returns home for his Mum's funeral to a neglected resort town, Broken Bay, on the easternmost point of Australia. He is challenged by a crooked local council, his brother who is trying to cheat him out of his inheritance, his first love who broke his heart when he was a teenager and the son he hasn't seen in ten years. The setting was named by combining the names of Byron Bay and Broken Head.
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Strange Bedfellows
Title: Strange Bedfellows
Character: Yvonne Philpot
Released: April 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
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Title: Breakers
Released: February 2, 1998
Type: TV
Breakers is an Australian television series, that was made and aired on Network Ten between 1998 and 1999. It was shown in Ireland on TV3 and City Channel. It was also screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom and TV4 in New Zealand.
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Academy
Title: Academy
Character: Jennifer Haywood
Released: December 31, 1996
Type: Movie
Jennifer Haywood, a high profile actress, moves to the Gold Coast to start a new life for her daughter, Natalie, and herself. She brings with her a colourful household: her boyfriend William; Lilly, the nanny; Doris, the cleaner; and Mopsy, the dog. Life seems almost perfect until her ex-husband Jack is cast as her lover in the series in which she is currently starring.
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Title: Paradise Beach
Released: May 31, 1993
Type: TV
Paradise Beach is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow Pictures. It is associated with New World Television for the Nine Network that aired between 1993 and 1994. The series is set around characters living and working on Queensland's Gold Coast and was filmed largely on location, offering views of crashing waves, golden beaches and scantily clad young women and men. Paradise Beach was intended not only as a rival to Australian soaps Neighbours and Home and Away but also to be the first breakthrough Australian soap to make it in America.
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Title: Richmond Hill
Released: January 27, 1988
Type: TV
Richmond Hill was an Australian television
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Jenny Kissed Me
Title: Jenny Kissed Me
Character: Gaynor
Released: February 6, 1986
Type: Movie
A woman moves away from her boyfriend because she suspects his feelings towards her pre-teen daughter. He tries to find them in the sordid side of Melbourne.
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Matthew and Son
Title: Matthew and Son
Character: Barbara Dean
Released: August 5, 1984
Type: Movie
A widowed police surgeon tries to save the world at the same time as maintaining a bond with his teenage son.
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Cass
Title: Cass
Released: October 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Torn by the conflict between society and her own life, as well as her failing marriage and love for another woman, Cass desperately tried to pull together the pieces of her shattered life.
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Title: Cop Shop
Character: Danni Francis
Released: November 28, 1977
Type: TV
Cop Shop is a long running Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that ran for eight seasons between 1977 and 1984. It comprised 582 one hour episodes.
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Title: The Young Doctors
Released: November 8, 1976
Type: TV
The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, rather than typical medical issues and procedures. It screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March 1983.
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Polly My Love
Title: Polly My Love
Released: June 1, 1975
Type: Movie
An Australian-set romance starring Jacki Weaver.
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Title: Number 96
Released: March 13, 1972
Type: TV
Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon of the Cash Harmon Television production company, produced the series for Network Ten, which requested a Coronation Street-type serial, and specifically one that explored adult subjects. The premise, original story outlines, and the original characters were devised by David Sale who also wrote the scripts for the first episodes and continued as script editor for much of the show's run. The series proved to be a huge success, running from 1972 until 1977. Number 96 was so popular it spawned a feature film version, filmed in December 1973. Number 96 was known for its sex scenes and nudity, somewhat risque at the time, and for its comedy characters. The series was the first Australian soap opera to feature an openly gay character.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Kitty
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.