Sharon Duce

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Sharon Duce
Born (1948-01-17) 17 January 1948 (age 77) [1]
Sheffield, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationActress
Years active1970–present
Children2

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

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Career

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 , Minder , 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

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

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1974 The Tamarind Seed Sandy Mitchell
1978 Absolution Louella
1981 Outland Prostitute
1989Blackwater SummerWifeShort
1990Shooting StarsPaula
1991 Buddy's Song Carol
1994Super GrassMum
1999 Rogue Trader Patsy Sims
2000Secret SocietyJanice
2008Six and Seven(unknown role)Video short
2024Look to the LightNan
TBASigns of LifeJoyce
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1970 Parkin's Patch Bobby TupperSeries 1, episode 17
1971 Armchair Theatre VeronicaSeries 13, episode 7
1971 Thirty-Minute Theatre MirabelleSeries 7, episode 5
1971 ITV Playhouse SheilaSeries 5, episode 3
1971 Z-Cars WPC CameronSeries 7, episodes 30, 31 & 51
1972 Softly, Softly: Task Force Mrs. NicholsonSeries 3, episode 21
1972 Scene GirlSeries 4, episode 12
1972Mistress of HardwickLadySeries 1, episode 7
1972Crime of PassionYvetteSeries 3, episode 4
1972 Thirty-Minute Theatre RosemarySeries 7, episode 33
1972 New Scotland Yard TriciaSeries 1, episode 12
1972 Villains AliceSeries 1, episode 5
1973Full HouseErm in George RebornSeries 1, episode 12
1973Away from It AllBethSeries 1, episode 6
1973Helen: A Woman of TodayCaroleSeries 1 (7 episodes)
19752nd HouseActress in KnotsSeries 2, episode 10
1975 Z-Cars Yvonne JamesSeries 10, episode 23
1975 Dawson's Weekly Sandra EvansSeries 1, episode 6
1975The Wild West ShowSheilaSeries 1, episodes 1 & 4
1976Centre PlayFreda HayesSeries 3, episode 10
1976 Bill Brand SianSeries 1, episode 11
1976 Play for Today JoyceSeries 7, episode 5
1976 Crown Court Sylvia TurnerSeries 5, episodes 60, 61 & 62
1977The House That Jack BuiltLuMiniseries (6 episodes)
1977The FoundationMrs. SherwoodSeries 1, episode 4
1977BBC2 Play of the WeekAdaSeries 1, episode 3
1978 Crown Court Anne CharltonSeries 7, episodes 34, 35 & 36
1978Send in the GirlsDianeSeries 1, episode 7
1978A Woman's Place?LeilaSeries 1, episode 1
1978BBC2 Play of the WeekAline CharigistSeries 2, episode 11
1980–81Coming HomeSheila MaddocksPilot & Series 1 (6 episodes)
1980 The Professionals AnnieSeries 4, episode 6
1980 Minder Beryl SharpSeries 2, episode 6
1980PremiereMrs. HammondSeries 4, episode 2
1981 BBC2 Playhouse BridgetSeries 7, episode 14
1981 Funny Man Kath GibsonSeries 1 (11 episodes)
1981Take the StageHerselfSeries 1, episode 6
1982 Tales of the Unexpected Sophie TrentSeries 5, episode 1
1981 In Loving Memory Hermione HepworthSeries 3, episode 6
1983The Hard WordVicky CloughSeries 1 (6 episodes)
1983 The Bounder DoreenSeries 2, episode 1
1984 Weekend Playhouse SusanSeries 1, episode 7
1984–86 Big Deal Jan OliverSeries 1–3 (30 episodes)
1987Running WildWandaSeries 1, episode 6
1988 Casualty TheaSeries 3, episode 9
1988 First Born Emily JessopMiniseries (episode 2)
1988 Rockliffe Judy MaidmentSeries 3: Rockliffe's Folly, episodes 1 & 2
1988 Boon Anita WilberforceSeries 3, episode 4
1989 Singles StephanieSeries 2, episode 3
1989 Doctor Who ControlSerial: "Ghost Light"
1991 The Bill Mrs. CookSeries 7, episode 21
1991 The Play on One Joan GlennSeries 4, episode 1
1992 Press Gang Katherine HillSeries 4, episodes 5 & 6
1992–93 Growing Pains Pat HollingsworthSeries 1–2 (20 episodes)
1992Natural LiesMaggie FellSeries 1, episodes 1, 2 & 3
1994 99-1 RonnieSeries 1, episode 3
1995 The Tomorrow People Penny WestonSerial: "The Living Stones"
1995Trafford TanziTanzi's MumTV movie short
1996 Casualty Isabel McEnerySeries 10, episode 19
1996 Into the Fire AnitaMiniseries (3 episodes)
1996Shakespeare's ShortsMariaSeries 1, episode 4
1996Short Sharp ShocksMotherSeries 1, episode 3
1997 Wycliffe Supt. Le PageSeries 4, episodes 2, 3 & 5
1997 Peak Practice Carol-Anne KernSeries 5, episode 14
1998 The Bill Cathy CrossSeries 14, episode 77
1998 Maisie Raine Eileen SlayburnSeries 1, episode 6
2000 Holby City Jill O'HanlonSeries 2, episode 16
2000 Playing the Field Sheila HurstSeries 3, episode 5 & Series 4, episode 4
2000 Where the Heart Is Shelley WilsonSeries 4, episodes 11 & 12
2000 The Royle Family Valerie KavanaghSeries 3, episode 7 (Christmas special)
2001–02 London's Burning Elaine ReeveSeries 13–14 (18 episodes)
2001 Merseybeat Holly OrmerodSeries 1, episode 9
2001 Doctors Rachel WilsonSeries 3 (5 episodes)
2002 Clocking Off Vicky SullivanSeries 3, episodes 4, 6 & 8
2003Grease MonkeysBernieSeries 1, episode 5
2003 Emmerdale Millicent Rudge5 episodes
2004 Casualty Alesia PamborisSeries 18, episode 22
2004 Conviction Sandra BulieghMiniseries (5 episodes)
2005 Dalziel and Pascoe Jenny ChallonerSeries 9, episodes 3 & 4
2006 The Royal Norma SmithsonSeries 5, episode 3
2006 Sorted HelenaSeries 1, episode 6
2008 Casualty Sheila DenhamSeries 22–23 (3 episodes)
2008 HolbyBlue Linda JacksonSeries 2, episode 7
2008 The Bill Doreen HuttonSeries 24, episode 40
2008 Missing Mrs. Susan GreensideMiniseries (2 episodes)
2009 Moving On Sue MorganSeries 1, episode 3
2009 Coronation Street Paula Carp16 episodes
2010 A Passionate Woman ChristineMiniseries (episode 2)
2012 Midsomer Murders Mandy GideonSeries 15, episode 2
2015 Doctors Celia ArmstrongSeries 16, episode 171
2015 Black Work BarbaraMiniseries (3 episodes)
2016 Vera MarciaSeries 6, episode 1
2016 Casualty Meg StuartSeries 30, episodes 26 & 27
2019 Doctors Sandra BlackwellSeries 20, episode 55
Podcast series
YearTitleRoleNotes
2022CupidHera, Fury 2

References

  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