Carmen Joan Duncan was an Australian-born stage and screen actress and activist, with a career locally and internationally in the United States that spanned over 50 years.
13 Facts About Carmen Duncan
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Carmen Duncan was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actress for the 1980 film Harlequin, and was known for the film Don't Let It Get You.
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Carmen Duncan played Iris Wheeler in the American soap opera Another World from 1988 to 1994.
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Carmen Duncan was born in Cooma, New South Wales, in 1942.
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Carmen Duncan graduated in 1961 from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
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Carmen Duncan was known to Australian audiences as a character actress in television, stage and films, as well as having appeared in television commercials.
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Carmen Duncan later had an ongoing role in Skyways, and guest starred in several episodes of A Country Practice as Terence Elliott's wife, Rowena.
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Carmen Duncan emigrated to the United States in the 1980s, where she acted on television.
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Carmen Duncan succeeded Beverlee McKinsey in the role after a long absence.
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Carmen Duncan became a member of Actor's Equity in 1962 and the federal council of the Media and Entertainment Arts Alliance.
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Carmen Duncan retired from acting in 2006 and became a fundraising manager for the GO Fund, a New South Wales charity associated with gynaecological cancer.
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Carmen Duncan served as an ambassador for the Breast Care Centre at the Royal Hospital for Women.
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Carmen Duncan died on 3 February 2019 from breast cancer, aged 76.