Michelle Duncan

The Perth-born Duncan studied acting at Queen Margaret University before studying English and classics at St Andrews University.

Duncan's television roles include Sugar Rush, Doctor Who,[1] Low Winter Sun, and Lost in Austen. She played Princess Diana in a TV film, Whatever Love Means, opposite Olivia Poulet as Camilla Parker Bowles and Laurence Fox as Prince Charles.[2][3]

Film work includes: Atonement, The Broken, and as Rupert Grint's love interest[4] in Driving Lessons with Julie Walters. Duncan's role in Atonement was particularly praised by The New Yorker theatre critic Anthony Lane:[5] Duncan's stage work includes Time and the Conways (Bath Theatre Royal/ touring), A Midsummer Night's Dream [6] and The Burning at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Further television work includes: New Tricks[7][8] Call the Midwife.[9] Duncan lent her voice to an adaptation of "The Little Mermaid"[10] by Hans Christian Andersen at Little Angel Puppet Theatre in 2006 alongside Dame Judi Dench, Sir Michael Gambon, Rory Kinnear, Claudie Blakley, Rosamund Pike, Claire Rushbrook and Peter Wight.

In 2007 she was cast as Portia [11] in The Merchant of Venice at Shakespeare's Globe, but was unable to continue after the previews and was replaced by Kirsty Besterman. In 2012 Duncan appeared alongside Amanda Hale in Scrubber,[12] a film written and directed by Romola Garai. In 2013, Duncan appeared in the third series of the BBC TV drama Luther[13] and Case Histories.[14] In 2014, she appeared in the ITV drama Grantchester.

In 2015 she starred alongside Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall and Tom Brooke in Scott Graham's[15] Film "Iona".[16] The closing gala film of the Edinburgh Film Festival.[17] She took the role of Bea[18] (originally performed by Helen Baxendale) in Deborah Bruce's play The Distance, directed by Charlotte Gwinner, for Sheffield and the Orange Tree Theatres.[19][20]

In 2017 she starred opposite Jamie Robson in Oscar nominated director Charlotte Wells' short film "Blue Christmas". Then in the following year she played Shelley Stern in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.

In 2022, Duncan was cast in "Star Wars: Andor" where she plays the role of Roboda Beehaz. In the same year, Duncan starred opposite Dougray Scott in the short film "Slay and Prepare the Animal for Meat" directed by Oisin Kearney and written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth. She also played the role of Caroline Dupayne opposite Bertie Carvel in Dalgliesh Series 2: The Murder Room.

In 2023 Viaplay announced that Duncan had been cast in the Rebus reboot series based on the crime novels of author Ian Rankin.[21]

• Michelle Duncan at IMDb