Arlene Duncan

Acting

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

• 2025A Change In Heart — Gladys
• 2025Date at Your Own Risk — Nia
• Mistletoe Murders — Vera Van Dorne
• The Spiderwick Chronicles — Melvina
• 2023Loving Every Minute — Carol
• 2022Little Bird
• 2022Serving Elizabeth — Mercy / Patricia
• 2022The Great Holiday Bake War — Sophie
• 2021It Takes a Christmas Village — Jo
• 2020My Father's Other Family — Detective Laura Maples
• 2019A Dog's Journey — Hilda
• Diggstown — Velma Diggs
• 2019Easy Land — Mrs. Fraser
• 2019Nostalgic Christmas — Alicia Gregory
• Star Falls — Sales Woman
• The Romanoffs — Prosecutor Dion
• Titans — Dean
• 2017Flint — Claire McClinton
• Private Eyes — Peggy
• Second Jen — Tilda
• Remedy — Lizzy Kray
• Teenagers — Sandra
• 2012Silent Hill: Revelation 3D — Teacher
• Suits — Emma Powell
• 2010Chloe — Party Guest
• Rookie Blue — Nancy Corden
• Little Mosque on the Prairie — Fatima Dinssa
• 2006Playing House — Dr. Nandha
• 2005Get Rich or Die Tryin' — Judge Juvenile Court
• 2005I Do, They Don't — Cocktail Waitress
• 2005Plague City: SARS in Toronto — Brenda
• ReGenesis — Clinic Nurse, Mrs. Nichols
• This Is Wonderland — Ms. Penny
• 2003Eloise at Christmastime — Lily the Night Maid
• Missing — Janine Eberhard
• 2003The Music Man — Town Woman #1
• Wild Card — Casino Cashier
• Puppets Who Kill
• 2002The Scream Team — Sheriff
• 2001A Mother's Fight for Justice — Female Judge
• Degrassi
• 2001Don't Say a Word — Aide
• 2000Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble — Harriet
• 2000Mail to the Chief — Operator #2
• Soul Food — Vanessa
• Little Men — Ruth
• 1998Moonlight Becomes You — Nurse
• Earth: Final Conflict — Nurse
• 1996Extreme Measures — E.R. Nurse
• FX: The Series — Nurse
• 1994Car 54, Where Are You? — Officer Kagan
• 1994I Know My Son Is Alive — Clinic Nurse
• 1991F/X2 — Hooker
• 1979An American Christmas Carol — Jennie Reeves