Janine Duvitski was born on Christine Janine Drzewicki; 28 June 1952 and is a British actress, known for her roles in the BBC television sitcom series Waiting for God, One Foot in the Grave and Benidorm.
11 Facts About Janine Duvitski
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Janine Duvitski was born in Morecambe, Lancashire to a Polish father and an English mother.
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Janine Duvitski trained at East 15 Acting School in Essex.
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Janine Duvitski has four children, Jack, Albert, Ruby, and Edith Bentall, with her actor husband Paul Bentall.
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Shortly after leaving drama school, Janine Duvitski was given a couple of small roles in television dramas but had no agent, and placed an advert in the Spotlight agency catalogue with a photograph.
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Janine Duvitski has appeared in the one-off production of Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter, as well as in episodes of Foyle's War, Brush Strokes, Cowboys, Citizen Smith, Minder, Midsomer Murders, My Family, Man About the House, The Georgian House, The New Statesman, The Black Stuff by Alan Bleasdale, The Knowledge, Z-Cars, The Worst Week of My Life, Little Dorrit, Still Open All Hours and, in 2013, as Emily Scuttlebutt in the CBeebies show Old Jack's Boat.
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In 2015 Janine Duvitski starred in the BBC sitcom Boy Meets Girl.
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Janine Duvitski had a small role opposite Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence in Dracula, and appeared in the 1980 rock music film Breaking Glass.
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Janine Duvitski appeared in Michael Crichton's The First Great Train Robbery, The Madness of King George, About a Boy, The New World and Angel.
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Janine Duvitski first came to national attention in Abigail's Party, written and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh.
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Janine Duvitski played the Vegetable Fairy in the 2017 Sunderland Empire Theatre pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk.