Michelle Duncan

Michelle Duncan

Born: April 14, 1978
in Perth, Scotland, U.K.
Michelle Duncan (born 14 April 1978) is a Scottish actress. She was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland Award for her performance in Sea of Souls.

Born in Perth, Duncan trained in acting at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh before studying English and Classics at St Andrew's University. She moved to London in February 2005.

Her roles on TV include Sugar Rush, Doctor Who, "Low Winter Sun", "Lost in Austen", and a TV film, Whatever Love Means, as Princess Diana. She has also appeared in such films as Atonement, The Broken and Driving Lessons, and she co-starred in the award-winning 2006 British short film Sucking Is A Fine Quality In Women And Vacuum Cleaners. On stage she has appeared in plays such as Time and the Conways (on UK tour) and A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Burning at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

In 2007 she was cast as Portia in The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare's Globe, but was unable to continue after the previews and was replaced by Kirsty Besterman.

She now works at Forest School, Snaresbrook, as a Drama and English Teacher. She is also a form tutor of Franklin house.

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Movies for Michelle Duncan...

Title: Star Wars: Andor
Character: Roboda Beehaz
Released: September 21, 2022
Type: TV
The tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor embarks on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.
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Elizabeth Is Missing
Title: Elizabeth Is Missing
Character: Maud's Mother
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
Title: Bohemian Rhapsody
Character: Shelley Stern
Released: October 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
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Blue Christmas
Title: Blue Christmas
Character: Lily
Released: September 9, 2017
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.
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Iona
Title: Iona
Character: Elizabeth
Released: June 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Iona returns to the island where she was born with her teenage son to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Iona's return exposes her tormented son, Bull, to a way of life she rejected when she left the island and sends a shockwave through the family she left behind.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Jeanette Heckford
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Scrubber
Title: Scrubber
Character: Neighbour
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Jenny, a young mother is looking for escape from her daily routine. After being let down by a babysitter she decides to leave her little girl with a neighbour and walk into the surrounding countryside. Here, whilst waiting by the side of the road, she is picked up by a stranger and together they drive into woodland where Jenny must choose between fantasy, escape and home.
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Title: Luther
Character: Kiera Mills
Released: May 4, 2010
Type: TV
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
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The Broken
Title: The Broken
Character: Kate Coleman
Released: November 15, 2008
Type: Movie
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
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Title: Lost in Austen
Character: Charlotte Lucas
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: TV
Modern Amanda enters through a portal in her bathroom, to join the Bennet family and affect events disastrously.
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Atonement
Title: Atonement
Character: Fiona Maguire
Released: February 27, 2007
Type: Movie
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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Low Winter Sun
Title: Low Winter Sun
Character: Louise Cullen
Released: September 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
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Driving Lessons
Title: Driving Lessons
Character: Bryony
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
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Whatever Love Means
Title: Whatever Love Means
Character: Lady Diana Spencer
Released: December 5, 2005
Type: Movie
Strap in for a rollercoaster ride through the emotional worlds of love and royalty in an original WE Channel movie exploring the enduring, 30-year romance shared between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. Decades before the fairy tale wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the young prince and his longtime sweetheart found their growing love tragically clipped by the many demands of royalty and the sometimes rough waters of romance. Though he had previously exchanged vows with the glamorous Diana, Prince Charles never truly forgot about Parker-Bowles, and in this film Anglophiles and royalty scholars alike will finally learn the truth behind one of the highest profile romances in modern history.
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Title: Sugar Rush
Character: Miss Forbes
Released: June 7, 2005
Type: TV
Sugar Rush is an Emmy Award–winning British television comedy drama series developed by Shine Limited and broadcast by Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel of the same name. It follows the trials and tribulations of teenager Kim Daniels, who is dealing with all the usual adolescent issues, plus one - she thinks she might be gay. Her family has recently moved to Brighton from London, and she finds herself with a huge crush on her new best friend, Maria `Sugar' Sweet. Sugar has a bit of a wild side, and frequently gets Kim into trouble, though Kim can find trouble on her own as well. Despite attractions to other girls, and a few attempts at being interested in guys, Kim continues to long for Sugar.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Lady Isobel
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" was aired as a pilot on the evening of October 31, 1991 in the USA and in October 1990 in Canada. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelodeon's SNICK. The series also aired on the Canadian television network YTV from October 30, 1990 until June 11, 2000. A revived series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker, although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by blurring the line between story and "reality".