Carmen Duncan

Duncan was born in Cooma, New South Wales, in 1942.[2] She graduated in 1961 from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney.[3] Duncan was known to Australian audiences as a character actress in television, stage and films, as well as having appeared in television commercials. Her television roles included the series Hunter (1967)[4] and she appeared in the evening soap opera Number 96 playing Helen Sheridan in 1973.[3] A role on the soap Certain Women followed. She later had an ongoing role in Skyways,[4] and guest starred in several episodes of A Country Practice as Terence Elliott's wife, Rowena.[5][2] Her film roles included Turkey Shoot (1982) and its 2014 reboot.[3]

Duncan emigrated to the United States in the 1980s, where she acted on television.[2] From October 1988 to September 1994, she portrayed Iris Carrington Wheeler on the daytime soap opera Another World.[4] Duncan became a member of Actor's Equity in 1962 and the federal council of the Media and Entertainment Arts Alliance.[2]

Duncan retired from acting in 2006 and became a fundraising manager for the GO Fund, a New South Wales charity associated with gynaecological cancer.[4][6] She served as an ambassador for the Breast Care Centre at the Royal Hospital for Women.[4]

Duncan lived in Sydney. She had two children. Her younger sister is actress Paula Duncan.[2]

Carmen Duncan died on 3 February 2019 from breast cancer, aged 76.[5][2]

FILM

TELEVISION

STAGE/THEATRE

• Make Me A Widow (1963)
• Hamlet (1963)
• Playboy Of The Western World (1965)
• A Man for All Seasons (1965)
• A Scent Of Flowers (1971)
• After The Fall (1972)
• Cactus Flower (1972)
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1973)
• Romeo And Juliet (1974)
• Next (1977)
• Bedroom Farce (1978)
• Top Girls (1983)
• Blithe Spirit (1987)
• Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced (2013)
• The Credeaux Canvas (2015)

• Carmen Duncan at IMDb
• Irises: The Unofficial Beverlee McKinsey and Carmen Duncan Home Page