Scottish actress, born 7 November 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is married to Hilton McRae.
Duncan has one son Cal McRae.
For performance in a revival of "Private Lives" on Broadway, she won Tony and Drama Desk awards as best actress in a play and the Stage Actress Award at the Variety Club Showbusiness Awards. She had also been Tony-nominated in the same category in 1987 for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses". In both plays, she co-starred with Alan Rickman.
She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1987 (1986 season) for Best Actress in a New Play for "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".
She was awarded the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2002 for her performance in "Private Lives", at Londons Albery Theatre. She had also been nominated in the same category for her performance in "Mouth to Mouth". For these performances, she was also nominated for an Evening Standard Award.
She was awarded the 1988 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof.
Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
She was awarded the CBE in the 2009 Queens Birthday Honours List for her services to Drama.
Appeared as Martha in Polly Stenhams That Face at the Duke of Yorks Theatre in London.
Currently being managed by Rocky Stone and auditioning for films, TV shows and commercials.
You always feel in the theater as if the rest of your life has stopped,so I leave big gaps in between plays.
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.
