Arlene Duncan
Acting
Biography
Arlene Duncan is a Canadian actress and singer from Oakville, Ontario. Her father is African Canadian, with ancestors from Nova Scotia. Duncan has appeared in more than 80 film and television roles, in addition to many theatrical productions. She is best known for her television role as Fatima, a diner owner in the CBC situation comedy Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Filmography
53 credits
It Takes a Christmas Village
Movie • 2021
Jo
Chloe
Movie • 2010
Party Guest
Little Bird
Movie • 2022
A Mother's Fight for Justice
Movie • 2001
Female Judge
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Movie • 2000
Harriet
Serving Elizabeth
Movie • 2022
Mercy / Patricia
Plague City: SARS in Toronto
Movie • 2005
Brenda
The Great Holiday Bake War
Movie • 2022
Sophie
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Movie • 2005
Judge Juvenile Court
Loving Every Minute
Movie • 2023
Carol
Moonlight Becomes You
Movie • 1998
Nurse
An American Christmas Carol
Movie • 1979
Jennie Reeves
Playing House
Movie • 2006
Dr. Nandha
Extreme Measures
Movie • 1996
E.R. Nurse
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Movie • 2012
Teacher
Flint
Movie • 2017
Claire McClinton
Eloise at Christmastime
Movie • 2003
Lily the Night Maid
A Dog's Journey
Movie • 2019
Hilda
Easy Land
Movie • 2019
Mrs. Fraser
Nostalgic Christmas
Movie • 2019
Alicia Gregory
I Do, They Don't
Movie • 2005
Cocktail Waitress
The Scream Team
Movie • 2002
Sheriff
Don't Say a Word
Movie • 2001
Aide
F/X2
Movie • 1991
Hooker
My Father's Other Family
Movie • 2021
Detective Laura Maples
A Change In Heart
Movie • 2025
Gladys
Car 54, Where Are You?
Movie • 1994
Officer Kagan
Date at Your Own Risk
Movie • 2025
Nia
Mail to the Chief
Movie • 2000
Operator #2
The Music Man
Movie • 2003
Town Woman #1
Degrassi
TV • 2001
Soul Food
TV • 2000
Vanessa
Little Mosque on the Prairie
TV • 2007
Fatima Dinssa
Puppets Who Kill
TV • 2002
FX: The Series
TV • 1996
Nurse
Remedy
TV • 2014
Lizzy Kray
Missing
TV • 2003
Janine Eberhard
Private Eyes
TV • 2016
Peggy
Teenagers
TV • 2014
Sandra
Suits
TV • 2011
Emma Powell
Second Jen
TV • 2016
Tilda
Titans
TV • 2018
Dean
Earth: Final Conflict
TV • 1997
Nurse
The Spiderwick Chronicles
TV • 2024
Melvina
The Romanoffs
TV • 2018
Prosecutor Dion
Rookie Blue
TV • 2010
Nancy Corden
ReGenesis
TV • 2004
Clinic Nurse
ReGenesis
TV • 2004
Mrs. Nichols
This Is Wonderland
TV • 2004
Ms. Penny
Diggstown
TV • 2019
Velma Diggs
Little Men
TV • 1998
Ruth
Star Falls
TV • 2018
Sales Woman
Mistletoe Murders
TV • 2024
Vera Van Dorne