Sharon Duncan-Brewster

Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Born	(1976-02-08) 8 February 1976 London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present

Sharon Duncan-Brewster (born 8 February 1976) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Imperial Planetologist Dr. Liet-Kynes in Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021), and before that as Crystal Gordon in Bad Girls during the first four series (1999–2002); her role as Trina Johnson on EastEnders (2009); and her role as Maggie Cain in the autumn 2009 Doctor Who special, "The Waters of Mars". More recently, she has played Weyland-Yutani scientist Albrecht in Alien: Containment (2019), Senator Tynnra Pamlo across the Star Wars franchise, and a version of Professor Moriarty in Enola Holmes 2 (2022).

Career

From 1999–2002, Duncan-Brewster portrayed the role of Crystal Gordon in the first four series of ITV prison drama series Bad Girls. After leaving the programme at the end of its fourth series, she guest-starred in Holby City, Waking the Dead, Babyfather and daytime soap opera Doctors. From February to September 2009, Duncan-Brewster appeared on the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Trina Johnson, estranged wife of Lucas Johnson. She appeared in the 2009 Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" as Maggie Cain. Duncan-Brewster also appeared on the medical TV series Body Story in 1998, playing a club singer and influenza patient named Holly Jones. In 2011, Duncan-Brewster appeared in all four episodes of the TV drama Top Boy. She originated the role of "C" in the play Crave by Sarah Kane, and played the role of Catherine Hunter, who is Alex Hunter's mother, in the FIFA 17's story mode known as "The Journey". Duncan-Brewster reprised the role of Catherine Hunter in FIFA 18's "The Journey: Hunter Returns" and FIFA 19's "The Journey: Champions". She also portrayed Kitty in the BBC One production of The Long Song in December 2018, and Weyland-Yutani scientist Albrecht in Alien: Containment in March 2019.

In 2022, Duncan-Brewster starred in Enola Holmes 2 portraying a version of Professor Moriarty.

In the Star Wars universe, she portrays Senator Tynnra Pamlo. She first played the character in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and later returned to voice the character in Star Wars: The Bad Batch.

Filmography

Key

†	Denotes works that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Imagine Me & You	Ms. Fosley
2006	Shoot the Messenger	Sharlene
2008	Three and Out	Yvonne	aka A Deal is a Deal
2011	Blooded	Eve Jourdan
2016	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	Senator Pamlo
2018	The Intent 2	Beverly
2019	Alien: Containment	Albrecht	Short film
2021	Dune	Liet-Kynes
2022	Enola Holmes 2	Moriarty / Mira Troy
2023	Earth Mama	Monica
2025	From the World of John Wick: Ballerina †	Nogi	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	2point4 Children	Baby Maureen	Episode: "Love and Marriage"
1992	Starting Out	Lisa	Episode: "Tom & Gerry"
	Grange Hill	Girl in cafe #2	Episode: "Highly Appropriate"
	EastEnders	Andrea	1 episode
	The Bill	Donna	Episode: "Going Soft"
	Between the Lines	Teenage Girl	Episode: "Private Enterprise"
1993	Hope I Die Before I Get Old		TV film
1995	TV Operas	Pupil, Chorus	Episode: "King of Hearts"
	Backup	Janice	Episode: "Clubbing"
1996	The Bill	Aisha Bedford	Episode: "Stop the Music"
1998	Maisie Raine	Informer	Episode: "Happy Families"
	Body Story	Holly Jones	Episode: "The Cold War"
1999	Casualty	Clare Johnson	Episode: "Seeing the Light"
1999–2002	Bad Girls	Crystal Gordon	Series 1–4 (main role, 44 episodes)
2002	Babyfather	Evelyn	2 episodes
2004	Holby City	Louise O'Connor	Episode: "The Buck Stops Here"
2005	Doctors	Rachel Roberts	Episode: "Birthing Pains"
	Waking the Dead	Sarah Baker	2 episodes
2006	Holby City	Carmel Newland	Episode: "Horses to Water"
2007	Coming Up	Annette	Episode: "Spoil"
	Doctors	Cleo Potter	Episode: "The Darker the Berry"
	The Nathan Caton Show	Unknown	Episode(s) unknown
2009	EastEnders	Trina Johnson	15 episodes
	Doctor Who	Maggie Cain	Episode: "The Waters of Mars"
2010	Holby City	Eve King	Episode: 'Til the Grave
2011–2013	Top Boy: Summerhouse	Lisa	8 episodes
2011–2015	Rastamouse	Scratchy (voice)	Animated series; 23 episodes
2013	The Bible	Samson's mother	Episode: "Homeland"
2013–2014	The Mimic	Dionne Coombes	4 episodes
2015	Cucumber	Maureen	2 episodes
	Unforgotten	CPS Lawyer	Episode #1.6
	Cuffs	Karen	Episode #1.4
2017	The Boy with the Topknot	Carol	TV film
2018	The Long Song	Kitty	2 episodes
2019	Years and Years	Fran Baxter	6 episodes
2019–2023	Sex Education	Roz Marchetti	Recurring role
2021	Intergalactic	Tula Quick	8 episodes
	Reset the Stage	Seyi Dunola Balogun	Miniseries
2023	Star Wars: The Bad Batch	Senator Pamlo (voice)	Episode: "The Clone Conspiracy"
	The Swarm	Samantha Crowe	8 episodes
2023–2024	Krapopolis	Hegemone (voice)	2 episodes
TBA	Washington Black †	TBA	Miniseries

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2016	FIFA 17	Catherine Hunter
2017	FIFA 18
2018	FIFA 19

External links

• Sharon Duncan-Brewster at IMDb