Arlene Duncan

Arlene Duncan


in Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Arlene Duncan is a Canadian actress and singer from Oakville, Ontario. Her father is African Canadian, with ancestors from Nova Scotia. Duncan has appeared in more than 80 film and television roles, in addition to many theatrical productions. She is best known for her television role as Fatima, a diner owner in the CBC situation comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie.

Movies for Arlene Duncan...

Title: The Spiderwick Chronicles
Character: Melvina
Released: April 19, 2024
Type: TV
The coming-of-age story of the Grace Family, as they move from New York to Michigan and into their family's ancestral home. Upon arrival, the family not only uncovers mysteries hidden inside their great grandfather's Spiderwick Estate, but also discovers a secret, fantastical world around them.
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Loving Every Minute
Title: Loving Every Minute
Character: Carol
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: Movie
When Stephanie inherits a watch, she learns that it allows her to travel back in time five minutes, once a day. But as she uses it more and more, her life, and romance with her coworker Hunter, doesn't shake out the way she hoped.
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The Great Holiday Bake War
Title: The Great Holiday Bake War
Character: Sophie
Released: December 3, 2022
Type: Movie
When former pastry school rivals Julian and Brianna meet years later in a TV baking competition, the sparks – and the flour – fly! Each has their own plans for the winning prize money, but only one can win…unless they work together. While Brianna struggles to support her daughter Willow and Julian longs to escape his mother’s shadow, they learn that collaboration can create a new recipe for success – and love.
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Little Bird
Title: Little Bird
Released: September 22, 2022
Type: Movie
When her mother’s depression spirals out of control, Fionna, a scrappy 7-year-old, lands in the foster care system again. A year later, her now beloved foster mom's health has taken a turn for the worse, and her caseworker’s arrival looms with the promise of yet another upheaval. Across town, having recently survived an interrupted adoption, her soon-to-be new moms struggle with their own fears that history will repeat itself. In the end, Fionna will be left to make a decision, as a family’s fate hangs in the balance.
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Serving Elizabeth
Title: Serving Elizabeth
Character: Mercy / Patricia
Released: February 7, 2022
Type: Movie
In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern on a TV drama series about the British royal family – while also pursuing a writing project of her own. These parallel narratives seem only coincidentally connected – until a surprising twist reveals a deeper relationship between the two.
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It Takes a Christmas Village
Title: It Takes a Christmas Village
Character: Jo
Released: December 4, 2021
Type: Movie
When construction on Main Street threatens to put the town's shops out of business, mayor Alex Foster decides to throw a Christmas market to boost sales. To do it though, she'll have to convince the reclusive Darcy Hawkins to host it at his family's old mill, bringing up old family feuds and sparking romance in the process.
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My Father's Other Family
Title: My Father's Other Family
Character: Detective Laura Maples
Released: April 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Shelby is devastated after her father's death. Curious about her family connections, she decides to look up the DNA-based family tree, and is surprised to find out that her father had another daughter. She goes on a mission to find her sibling and meets Rose, her half-sister. But as the initial euphoria dies down and the question of who gets her father's inheritance crops up, things begin to change.
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Nostalgic Christmas
Title: Nostalgic Christmas
Character: Alicia Gregory
Released: October 31, 2019
Type: Movie
When Anne helps her father close the family's toy store, what she finds will help inspire an entire town that is need of some Christmas cheer.
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Easy Land
Title: Easy Land
Character: Mrs. Fraser
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.
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A Dog's Journey
Title: A Dog's Journey
Character: Hilda
Released: May 3, 2019
Type: Movie
A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.
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Title: Titans
Character: Dean
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: TV
A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.
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Title: The Romanoffs
Character: Prosecutor Dion
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: TV
An anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day descendants of the Romanov family.
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Flint
Title: Flint
Character: Claire McClinton
Released: October 28, 2017
Type: Movie
A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family.
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Title: Second Jen
Character: Tilda
Released: October 27, 2016
Type: TV
In Toronto, best friends Jen and Mo decide to become roommates when Mo's parents move back to the Philippines and Jen takes the opportunity to live independent from her Chinese immigrant parents.
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Title: Private Eyes
Character: Peggy
Released: May 26, 2016
Type: TV
Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.
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Title: Remedy
Character: Lizzy Kray
Released: February 24, 2014
Type: TV
Griffin Conner, a med-school dropout having left in a haze of disgrace, is forced to return to Bethune General Hospital as its newest orderly and work alongside his family.
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Title: Teenagers
Character: Sandra
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: TV
A web series that depicts the intersecting lives of several off-beat 21st century teenagers.
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Title: Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Character: Teacher
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand, Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and the disappearance of her father, Heather discovers she's not who she thinks she is. The revelation leads her deeper into a demonic world that threatens to trap her forever.
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Title: Suits
Character: Emma Powell
Released: June 23, 2011
Type: TV
While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by hiring Mike on the spot after he recognizes his raw talent and photographic memory.
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Chloe
Title: Chloe
Character: Party Guest
Released: February 25, 2010
Type: Movie
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
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Title: Little Mosque on the Prairie
Character: Fatima Dinssa
Released: January 9, 2007
Type: TV
The series focuses on the Muslim community in the fictional prairie town of Mercy, Saskatchewan (population 14,000).
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Playing House
Title: Playing House
Character: Dr. Nandha
Released: March 24, 2006
Type: Movie
A young, ambitious editor finds out she's pregnant just as she lands her big break.
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Title: Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Character: Judge Juvenile Court
Released: November 9, 2005
Type: Movie
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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Plague City: SARS in Toronto
Title: Plague City: SARS in Toronto
Character: Brenda
Released: May 29, 2005
Type: Movie
The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city. Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments.
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I Do, They Don't
Title: I Do, They Don't
Character: Cocktail Waitress
Released: March 20, 2005
Type: Movie
A Vegas wedding spells trouble back at home, as Carrie (Bissett) and Jim (Estes) each break the news to their kids. Can the newlyweds -- and their new household -- survive?
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Eloise at Christmastime
Title: Eloise at Christmastime
Character: Lily the Night Maid
Released: November 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York's Plaza Hotel. The owner's daughter is getting married, but Eloise discovers that the fiance has devious plans to defraud kind Rachel! When her true love is revealed to be none other than Eloise's best friend Bill who works in the kitchen, Eloise goes on a mission to bring about a Christmas miracle and get the starcrossed lovers back together.. will things work out in time for a happy holiday ending?
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Title: Missing
Character: Janine Eberhard
Released: August 2, 2003
Type: TV
Jess Mastriani was a normal person who only wanted to take over her parents' restaurant in Indiana. But that changed when she was hit by lightning. After that she began seeing visions of missing people. Jess decides to use her newfound ability to be a consultant to the FBI, helping locate missing individuals. Eventually, she is hired by the bureau full-time and trained to become an agent, but her by-the-book nature sometimes clashes with the personality of her partner. Jess and her colleagues work out of the FBI's Washington, D.C., office.
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The Scream Team
Title: The Scream Team
Character: Sheriff
Released: October 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Eccentric Frank Carlyle ran a horror shop in small-town Steeple Falls, which takes pride in and profit from its Halloween traditions. Frank's widower grandson Richard grudgingly returns there from Boston with his own kids, bright Ian and bratty Claire, to settle the inheritance. Ian discovers great-grandpa's house is really haunted, and not just, as legend holds, by historic owner Zachariah Kull, who was burned on the stake.
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Title: Puppets Who Kill
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: TV
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.
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Title: Degrassi
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: TV
The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
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Don't Say a Word
Title: Don't Say a Word
Character: Aide
Released: September 28, 2001
Type: Movie
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..
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A Mother's Fight for Justice
Title: A Mother's Fight for Justice
Character: Female Judge
Released: February 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A mother's quest for justice when her son is critically injured by a drunk driver.
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Title: Soul Food
Character: Vanessa
Released: June 28, 2000
Type: TV
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.
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Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Title: Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Character: Harriet
Released: April 23, 2000
Type: Movie
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
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Moonlight Becomes You
Title: Moonlight Becomes You
Character: Nurse
Released: January 11, 1998
Type: Movie
At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway—one of the fashion world’s most successful photographers—is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and she invites Maggie to spend a few weeks at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala murdered, apparently by a burglar. Heartbroken, Maggie is stunned to learn she had inherited Nuala’s stunning Victorian home...and horrified when she begins to suspect that Nuala’s death was not random, but part of a diabolical plot conceived by a twisted mind.
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Title: Earth: Final Conflict
Character: Nurse
Released: October 6, 1997
Type: TV
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.
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Extreme Measures
Title: Extreme Measures
Character: E.R. Nurse
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
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Title: FX: The Series
Character: Nurse
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
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F/X2
Title: F/X2
Character: Hooker
Released: April 16, 1991
Type: Movie
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike's boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it wasn't. Obviously, Silak is involved with Mike's death, so he calls on Leo McCarthy, the cop from the last movie, who is now a P.I., for help and they discover it's not just Silak they have to worry about.
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An American Christmas Carol
Title: An American Christmas Carol
Character: Jennie Reeves
Released: December 16, 1979
Type: Movie
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.