Sharon Duncan-Brewster

Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Born	London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present

Sharon Duncan-Brewster is a British actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Crystal Gordon on the Bad Girls during the first four series, her role as Trina Johnson on EastEnders and her role as Maggie Cain in the autumn 2009 Doctor Who special, The Waters of Mars.

Biography

She portrayed the role of Crystal Gordon in the first four series of ITV prison drama series Bad Girls. After leaving the programme at the end of its fourth series she guest-starred in Holby City, Waking the Dead, Babyfather and daytime soap opera Doctors. From February to September 2009 she appeared on the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Trina Johnson, estranged wife of Lucas Johnson. The character was killed off during a row with Lucas, who pushed her, impaling her throat on a rake. Brewster appeared in the 2009 Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" as Maggie Cain. Sharon also appeared on the medical TV series "Body Story" in 1998. In the episode, Sharon played a club singer and influenza patient named Holly Jones. The episode documented the radical transformations her character's body went through in order to stop the influenza virus. In 2011, she appeared in all four episodes of TV drama Top Boy. Brewster originated the role of "C" in the play Crave by Sarah Kane.

Personal life

Sharon attended Raines Foundation School in Bethnal Green, 1987–91.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1993	Hope I Die Before I Get Old	Role Unknown
2001	Love Is Not Enough	Mary Carter
2005	Imagine Me & You	Ms. Fosley
2006	Shoot the Messenger	Sharlene
2008	Three and Out	Yvonne
2011	Blooded (film)	Eve
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	2point4 Children	Maureen	One Episode: Love and Marriage
1992	Grange Hill	Girl in Cafe No.2	One Episode: Episode No.15.13
	Between the Lines	Teenage Girl	One Episode: Private Enterprise
1995	Backup	Janice	One Episode: Clubbing
1996	The Bill	Role Unknown	One Episode: Stop the Music
1999	Casualty	Clare Johnson	One Episode: Seeing the Light
1999–2002	Bad Girls	Crystal Gordon	Forty-Four Episodes
2002	Babyfather	Evelyn	Two Episodes: Episode No.2.2 and Episode No.2.3
2004–06	Holby City	Louise O'Connor and Carmel Newland	Two Episodes: The Buck Stops Here and Horses to Water
2005	Waking the Dead	Sarah Baker	Two Episodes: Undertow: Part I
2005–07	Doctors	Rachel Roberts and Cleo Potter	Two Episodes: Birthing Pains and The Blacker the Berry
2007	Coming Up	Annette	One Episode: Spoil
	The Nathan Caton Show	Role Unknown	Episode(s) Unknown
2009	EastEnders	Trina Johnson	Fifteen Episodes
	Doctor Who	Maggie Cain	One Episode: The Waters of Mars
2011	Rastamouse	Scratchy	Animated series, voice only
	Top Boy	Lisa	Four Episodes
2013	The Mimic	Dionne	Four Episodes
	Top Boy	Lisa	Series 2

External links

• Sharon Duncan-Brewster at the Internet Movie Database