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She was made a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2009 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to drama.

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 (2002). 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 1988 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress in Cat on A Hot Tin Roof.

She was awarded the 2002 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress of 2002 for her performance in "Private Lives", at London's 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.

Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Duncan has one son Calvin "Cal" McRae of Clan Macrae (b. September 1991).

Of Clan Duncan.

Appeared as Martha in Polly Stenham's 'That Face' at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.