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Sharon Duce

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Sharon Duce
Born (1948-01-17) 17 January 1948 (age 76)[1]
Sheffield, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active1970–present
Children2

Sharon D. Duce (born 17 January 1948) is an English actress.

Career

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Born in Sheffield, she trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art then became a stage actress at the Sheffield Repertory Theatre, the York Theatre Royal, and the Theatre in the Round, before joining Ian McKellen and Edward Petherbridge's Actors Company. Apart from her career in film and television, she has had leading roles at the Royal Court Theatre and other West End theatres.[2]

Duce began her acting career in 1970; She made her first appearance on the short-lived ITV crime drama series Parkin's Patch, before going on to many television guest appearances throughout the decade, in shows including Armchair Theatre, Z-Cars, Play for Today and Crown Court, as well as film roles in The Tamarind Seed, which was her film debut, and Absolution. Her television guest roles continued into the 1980s in a number of mainstream productions, such as The Professionals, Tales of the Unexpected, In Loving Memory, Rockliffe, and Doctor Who. She had a main role in the short-lived ITV comedy series Funny Man, and in the BBC One series Big Deal, as Jan Oliver.

Duce was cast in the 1991 film Buddy's Song, based on the 1987 novel of the same name; she plays Carol Clark, the mother of Buddy (Chesney Hawkes), who attempts to make it as a musician with the help of Buddy's father and her estranged husband (Roger Daltrey). In 1992, she guest-appeared in the fourth series drama series of CITV drama Press Gang, followed by the leading role of Pat Hollingsworth in BBC One's Growing Pains. She appeared in The Tomorrow People, the revived version of the 1970s series, Wycliffe and Peak Practice.

In the 2000s, she has had guest roles in Playing the Field, Where the Heart Is and The Royle Family, where she made an appearance in the third series' Christmas special. She had a recurring role in London's Burning, and appearances in soap operas Emmerdale, as Millicent Rudge in 2003, and in Coronation Street as Julie Carp's mother, Paula Carp, she departed the soap on 22 May 2009.[3]

She also had multiple guest roles in long running drama series' Casualty, The Bill and Doctors.

Personal life

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She has two children with the former actor Dominic Guard, with whom she appeared in the 1978 film Absolution.[4]

Filmography

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Film
Year Title Role Notes
1974 The Tamarind Seed Sandy Mitchell
1978 Absolution Louella
1981 Outland Prostitute
1989 Blackwater Summer Wife Short
1990 Shooting Stars Paula
1991 Buddy's Song Carol
1994 Super Grass Mum
1999 Rogue Trader Patsy Sims
2000 Secret Society Janice
2008 Six and Seven (unknown role) Video short
2024 Look to the Light Nan
TBA Signs of Life Joyce
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1970 Parkin's Patch Bobby Tupper Series 1, episode 17
1971 Armchair Theatre Veronica Series 13, episode 7
1971 Thirty-Minute Theatre Mirabelle Series 7, episode 5
1971 ITV Playhouse Sheila Series 5, episode 3
1971 Z-Cars WPC Cameron Series 7, episodes 30, 31 & 51
1972 Softly, Softly: Task Force Mrs. Nicholson Series 3, episode 21
1972 Scene Girl Series 4, episode 12
1972 Mistress of Hardwick Lady Series 1, episode 7
1972 Crime of Passion Yvette Series 3, episode 4
1972 Thirty-Minute Theatre Rosemary Series 7, episode 33
1972 New Scotland Yard Tricia Series 1, episode 12
1972 Villains Alice Series 1, episode 5
1973 Full House Erm in George Reborn Series 1, episode 12
1973 Away from It All Beth Series 1, episode 6
1973 Helen: A Woman of Today Carole Series 1 (7 episodes)
1975 2nd House Actress in Knots Series 2, episode 10
1975 Z-Cars Yvonne James Series 10, episode 23
1975 Dawson's Weekly Sandra Evans Series 1, episode 6
1975 The Wild West Show Sheila Series 1, episodes 1 & 4
1976 Centre Play Freda Hayes Series 3, episode 10
1976 Bill Brand Sian Series 1, episode 11
1976 Play for Today Joyce Series 7, episode 5
1976 Crown Court Sylvia Turner Series 5, episodes 60, 61 & 62
1977 The House That Jack Built Lu Miniseries (6 episodes)
1977 The Foundation Mrs. Sherwood Series 1, episode 4
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week Ada Series 1, episode 3
1978 Crown Court Anne Charlton Series 7, episodes 34, 35 & 36
1978 Send in the Girls Diane Series 1, episode 7
1978 A Woman's Place? Leila Series 1, episode 1
1978 BBC2 Play of the Week Aline Charigist Series 2, episode 11
1980–81 Coming Home Sheila Maddocks Pilot & Series 1 (6 episodes)
1980 The Professionals Annie Series 4, episode 6
1980 Premiere Mrs. Hammond Series 4, episode 2
1981 BBC2 Playhouse Bridget Series 7, episode 14
1981 Funny Man Kath Gibson Series 1 (11 episodes)
1981 Take the Stage Herself Series 1, episode 6
1982 Tales of the Unexpected Sophie Trent Series 5, episode 1
1981 In Loving Memory Hermione Hepworth Series 3, episode 6
1983 The Hard Word Vicky Clough Series 1 (6 episodes)
1983 The Bounder Doreen Series 2, episode 1
1984 Weekend Playhouse Susan Series 1, episode 7
1984–86 Big Deal Jan Oliver Series 1–3 (30 episodes)
1987 Running Wild Wanda Series 1, episode 6
1988 Casualty Thea Series 3, episode 9
1988 First Born Emily Jessop Miniseries (episode 2)
1988 Rockliffe Judy Maidment Series 3: Rockliffe's Folly, episodes 1 & 2
1988 Boon Anita Wilberforce Series 3, episode 4
1989 Singles Stephanie Series 2, episode 3
1989 Doctor Who Control Serial: "Ghost Light"
1991 The Bill Mrs. Cook Series 7, episode 21
1991 The Play on One Joan Glenn Series 4, episode 1
1992 Press Gang Katherine Hill Series 4, episodes 5 & 6
1992–93 Growing Pains Pat Hollingsworth Series 1–2 (20 episodes)
1992 Natural Lies Maggie Fell Series 1, episodes 1, 2 & 3
1994 99-1 Ronnie Series 1, episode 3
1995 The Tomorrow People Penny Weston Serial: "The Living Stones"
1995 Trafford Tanzi Tanzi's Mum TV movie short
1996 Casualty Isabel McEnery Series 10, episode 19
1996 Into the Fire Anita Miniseries (3 episodes)
1996 Shakespeare's Shorts Maria Series 1, episode 4
1996 Short Sharp Shocks Mother Series 1, episode 3
1997 Wycliffe Supt. Le Page Series 4, episodes 2, 3 & 5
1997 Peak Practice Carol-Anne Kern Series 5, episode 14
1998 The Bill Cathy Cross Series 14, episode 77
1998 Maisie Raine Eileen Slayburn Series 1, episode 6
2000 Holby City Jill O'Hanlon Series 2, episode 16
2000 Playing the Field Sheila Hurst Series 3, episode 5 & Series 4, episode 4
2000 Where the Heart Is Shelley Wilson Series 4, episodes 11 & 12
2000 The Royle Family Valerie Kavanagh Series 3, episode 7 (Christmas special)
2001–02 London's Burning Elaine Reeve Series 13–14 (18 episodes)
2001 Merseybeat Holly Ormerod Series 1, episode 9
2001 Doctors Rachel Wilson Series 3 (5 episodes)
2002 Clocking Off Vicky Sullivan Series 3, episodes 4, 6 & 8
2003 Grease Monkeys Bernie Series 1, episode 5
2003 Emmerdale Millicent Rudge 5 episodes
2004 Casualty Alesia Pamboris Series 18, episode 22
2004 Conviction Sandra Buliegh Miniseries (5 episodes)
2005 Dalziel and Pascoe Jenny Challoner Series 9, episodes 3 & 4
2006 The Royal Norma Smithson Series 5, episode 3
2006 Sorted Helena Series 1, episode 6
2008 Casualty Sheila Denham Series 22–23 (3 episodes)
2008 HolbyBlue Linda Jackson Series 2, episode 7
2008 The Bill Doreen Hutton Series 24, episode 40
2008 Missing Mrs. Susan Greenside Miniseries (2 episodes)
2009 Moving On Sue Morgan Series 1, episode 3
2009 Coronation Street Paula Carp 16 episodes
2010 A Passionate Woman Christine Miniseries (episode 2)
2012 Midsomer Murders Mandy Gideon Series 15, episode 2
2015 Doctors Celia Armstrong Series 16, episode 171
2015 Black Work Barbara Miniseries (3 episodes)
2016 Vera Marcia Series 6, episode 1
2016 Casualty Meg Stuart Series 30, episodes 26 & 27
2019 Doctors Sandra Blackwell Series 20, episode 55
Podcast series
Year Title Role Notes
2022 Cupid Hera, Fury 2

References

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  1. ^ "Duce, Sharon D." in Register of Births for Sheffield Registration District, vol. 2d (1948), p. 27
  2. ^ Sharon Duce at acting-speaking-coach.co.uk
  3. ^ Green, Kris (6 May 2009). "Corrie bosses deny character cost cuts". Digital Spy. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  4. ^ Harvey Fenton, David Flint, Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the 1970s (FAB, 2001), p. 288
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