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Carmen Joan Duncan (7 July 1942 – 3 February 2019) was an Australian actress and activist, with a career locally and internationally that spanned over 50 years. She was nominated for an AFI/AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the film Harlequin (1980), and was also known for her role as Iris Wheeler on the American soap opera Another World from 1988 to 1994.

Early life

Duncan was born in Lismore in 1942, and grew up in Cooma, New South Wales, Her family moved to Double Bay in Sydney in the late 1950s,

Career

Duncan was known to Australian audiences as a character actress in television, stage and film, as well as having appeared in television commercials.

Duncan relocated to England early in her career, spending the 1960s in London and the UK appearing in weekly repertory theatre. She went on to play the lead in Make Me a Widow in the West End. She also starred in 1982 Ozploitation film Turkey Shoot (1982) and later, its 2014 reboot. She served as an ambassador for the Breast Care Centre at the Royal Hospital for Women.

in 1968. Together, they had two children

Death

In 2000, Duncan was diagnosed and treated for early stage breast cancer. She died in hospital in Sydney, on 3 February 2019, aged 76.

|Ihaka: Blunt Instrument

|Mrs. Renton

|TV movie

| 2000; 2002

| Farscape

| Leslie Crichton

| 2 episodes

| rowspan="3" | 2001

| Water Rats

| Geraldine St. Clare

| 1 episode

| 2001 || On Approval || || Glen St Theatre, Sydney

| 2013 || A Murder is Announced || Mrs Swettenham || Sydney Theatre, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne

| rowspan="2"|2015 || The Credeaux Canvas || Tess || Seymour Centre, Sydney

| Anything Goes || Evangeline Harcourt

Awards and nominations

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| 1962 || A Man for All Seasons || rowspan="2" |Theatre Critics Awards || Best Actress || ||