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''; and her role as Maggie Cain in the autumn 2009 ''

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'' special, ''

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''. More recently, she has played Imperial

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in Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's ''Dune''.

Career

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 ''

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'', '' Waking the Dead'', ''

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'' and daytime

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'' Doctors''. From February to September 2009 Duncan-Brewster appeared on the BBC soap opera ''

'' as Trina Johnson, estranged wife of

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. She appeared in the 2009 ''

'' special "

" 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 TV drama ''

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''. She originated the role of "C" in the play '' Crave'' by

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, and played the role of Catherine Hunter, who is

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's mother, in the

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's story mode known as "The Journey". Duncan-Brewster reprised the role of Catherine Hunter in

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's The Journey: Hunter Returns and

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's The Journey: Champions. She also portrayed Kitty in the

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production of ''

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'' in December 2018.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

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* Living people Actresses from London 21st-century English actresses English film actresses English television actresses Black British actresses 20th-century English actresses English people of Jamaican descent 1976 births {{England-tv-actor-stub