Robin Duke
Birthday: Born in 1954-03-13 in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Robin Duke (born March 13, 1954) is a Canadian actress, comedian, and voice actress. Duke may be best known for her work on the television comedy series SCTV and, later, Saturday Night Live. She co-founded Women Fully Clothed, a sketch comedy troupe which toured Canada. She teaches writing as a faculty member at Humber College in Toronto and had a recurring role playing Wendy Kurtz in the sitcom Schitt's Creek. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George and Martha
Character:
The humorous everyday lives of happy hippos George and Martha, and the enduring friendship they share. Based on the books by James Marshall....
Atomic Betty
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Seemingly ordinary Betty Barrett lives a double life as she fights crime with the help of a loud-mouthed alien and a know-it-all robot, protecting the galaxy from the evil clutches of Maximus IQ....
FX: The Series
Character: Woman
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?...
Schitt's Creek
Character: Wendy Kurtz
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke....
Man Seeking Woman
Character: Patti
Josh Greenberg is a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love. When his longtime girlfriend dumps him, Josh enters the dating scene, a nightmarish hellscape of untold horror. Despite the agony, Josh continues his search in the hopes of finding someone who will make all the misery worth it....
Monk
Character: Aunt Minn
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways....
The Jane Show
Character: Jane's Mom
Aspiring novelist Jane Black suddenly winds up unemployed. Hoping for a more conventional lifestyle, she goes in search of a job, hoping to find something with a 40-hour work week and maybe even dental insurance. Her adventures in the corporate world are not so ordinary, however, and she learns that a normal life may not be so normal after all....
Second City: First Family of Comedy
Character: Self
The series traces the evolution of one of the world's most successful comedy troupes from its humble beginnings as a stage production in Chicago to the hit late-night TV show....
Bigfoot
Character: Mrs. Howzenduffer (voice)
Controversial megafauna, Bigfoot, finds himself down on his luck. His hunt for meaning, connection, and redemption snacks reveals him to be a complex mix of ego, vulnerability, cool dances, weird smells, and philosophical insight. Can he borrow some money? What is the moon? Please stop honking at Bigfoot? What is a Bigfoot? So many questions..only one Bigfoot....
Shelved
Character: Unhoused Wendy Brown
The eclectic staff and patrons in the underfunded Jameson branch of the Metropolitan Public Library deal with the community and each other’s eccentricities....
Boston Common
Character: Dr. Nidorf
After moving to Boston from Virginia, to spy on his sister who just started college, Boyd finds himself working for the student union where he raises hell more often than he should....
Second City Television
Character: Self - Various Characters
Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984....
Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse
Character: Edna (voice)
Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse is a Canadian animated television show produced by Nelvana. It tells the stories of a young horse named Marvin who is part of a carnival. Among the Executive Producers are Michael Paraskevas and Betty Paraskevas, creators of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast who also created the book that the show is based on. The show first aired on the Treehouse block before moving to just before Tiny Pop. The series also aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch from 2...
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Groundhog Day
Character: Doris the Waitress
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over....
Multiplicity
Character: Ballet School Receptionist
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning....
Club Paradise
Character: Mary Lou
When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials and businessmen who want to claim the resort as their own....
Only You
Character: Mrs. Johnson
Dumped by his fiancée, Clifford Godfrey goes on vacation anyway where he ends up torn between a sober party girl and his travel agent....
The Last Polka
Character: Lemon Twin
A mockumentary that depicts the final concert of Yosh and Stan Shmenge aka the Happy Wanderers....
Rocky Road
Character: Fiona Draper
When a Wall Street firm downsizes, a well-to-do trader finds himself living with his parents and driving their ice cream truck....
Stuart Saves His Family
Character: Cousin Denise
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place....
Hostage for a Day
Character: Elizabeth Kooey
Harried suburban man Warren Kooey fakes a hostage situation in order to get the money he needs to escape his humdrum life....
Motorama
Character: Miss Lawton
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game....
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Before he was The Nutty Professor, before he was Dr. Dolittle, and even before he was the Beverly Hills Cop, Eddie Murphy was an SNL comic! From 1981-1984 he entertained us with sketches as Gumby, Mister Robinson, Buckwheat, Velvet Jones and many more! He was before Chris Rock, Tracey Morgan, and Tim Meadows! And after Garrett Morris!...
Blue Monkey
Character: Sandra Baker
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant gro...
I, Martin Short, Goes Home
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A journey through the life and mind of Martin Short. And some of it is even true. “I, Martin Short, Goes Home” is a Canadian television comedy special, written by and starring comedian Martin Short, which aired on CBC Television in 2012....
Portrait of a Serial Monogamist
Character: Abby Neufeld
Smart, successful, and charming, Elsie is the perfect girlfriend; she also happens to be a serial monogamist, with a long history of broken hearts. When Elsie breaks up with her long-standing girlfriend to pursue another woman, she faces her mother’s disapproval, conflicting advice from friends, and the nagging suspicion that she may have made a big mistake. Set in the Parkdale neighborhood of Toronto, Portrait of a Serial Monogamist invites audiences to peek behind the curtain to a world of sm...
Quints
Character: Fiona
A teenager goes to desperate lengths to get attention when her mother gives birth to quints....
I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood
Character: Drunk Woman
In this HBO special, comedian Martin Short appears in a series of sketches, vignettes and musical performances about Hollywood, featuring some of his classic characters like Ed Grimley, Jackie Rogers Jr., Lawrence Orbach and Troy Soren, and co-starring some of his colleagues from "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live."...
Virtual Mom
Character: Maude Gozmecki
Sometimes it takes something special to bring a mother and daughter together. For thirteen year-old Lucy and her mom, Holly, it took a little magic. One day a strange computer glitch causes Holly to transform into a teenager leading to craziness, fun and ultimately true friendship....
I Love Trouble
Character: Sandra
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy....
There Goes the Neighborhood
Character: The Colangelos
A dying prisoner whispers the location of his loot to the facility's psychologist, who heads to the New Jersey suburbs to find it. Two prisoners overhear the plan and escape to get the millions for themselves. Who will get the money?...