Carmen Duncan

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, 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

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Awards and nominations Year Work Award Category Result Ref. 1962 A Man for All Seasons Theatre Critics Awards Best Actress 1965 After the Fall Best Actress 1980 Harlequin Australian Film Institute Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role Penguin Awards Best Actress Touch and Go Best Actress 1990 Another World Soap Opera Digest Awards Outstanding Female Newcomer: Daytime 1992 Outstanding Villainess: Daytime