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Janine Duvitski
Born: 28th Jun 1952 Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Dept: Acting
Janine Duvitski (born Christine Janine Drzewicki) is a British actress, known for her roles in the BBC TV sitcom series Waiting for God, One Foot in the Grave and Benidorm. Duvitski first came to national attention in the play Abigail's Party, written and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 93
Film: 49 (53%)
Television: 44 (47%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Animation, Adventure, Reality, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Talk, Kids, Action, War & Politics, Soap, Music, Thriller
Filmography
Jan 2026 (first aired)
The revival of the Cartoon Cartoons Program, featuring many new shorts across the Cartoon Network Studios Team Staff. ... view
Character:
Jean (voice) (1 ep.)
2025
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron. ... view
Character:
Sharon
2024
A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Roha ... view
Character:
Old Pennicruik (voice)
Oct 2024 (first aired)
Follow the adventures of two young brothers whose Mum is Indian by heritage and Dad is English. With both Indian and English grandparents, their life ... view
Character:
Nana (52 ep.)
Nov 2023 (first aired)
Evie and Pete move into an upscale neighborhood and find themselves in a world of curtain twitching and status anxiety. They find friendship in the sh ... view
Character:
Gloria (6 ep.)
Apr 2023 (first aired)
A reimagining of Henry Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling," the tale of an illegitimate young man's love for an heiress and his attempt ... view
Character:
Mrs. Wilkins (4 ep.)
2021
Agatha's in need of a well-earned break and with Christmas just around the corner it looks like the perfect opportunity to relax. When she receives a ... view
Character:
Doris Crampton
May 2021 (first aired)
After their trip to Middlesbrough turned a little more explosive than they thought, Gemma and Terry finally decide to pack up the smouldering remains ... view
Character:
Betty (1 ep.)
2019
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is s ... view
Character:
Lady
2018
Ahead of the start of the tenth series of the award-winning ITV sitcom, this special programme talks to the show's creator and writer Derren Litten ab ... view
Character:
Herself
Apr 2017 (first aired)
Set in a fictional hospital, this mockumentary follows the lives of porters, hospital radio DJs, chaplains and managers asking who exactly are all the ... view
Character:
Mrs. Leydon (6 ep.)
2016
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a tri ... view
Character:
Pippa (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers. ... view
Character:
Self
Jun 2016 (first aired)
Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detec ... view
Character:
Doris Crampton (1 ep.)
Mar 2016 (first aired)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and ... view
Character:
Martha (1 ep.)
Mar 2016 (first aired)
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate. ... view
Character:
Lady Scatcherd (3 ep.)
Sep 2015 (first aired)
A romantic comedy about the unexpected relationship between Judy and Leo, a 40-something transgender woman and a down on his luck, 26-year-old man. Di ... view
Character:
Peggy (12 ep.)
Dec 2014 (first aired)
Still Open All Hours is a sitcom set in a grocer's shop. It is a sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and ... view
Character:
Elsie Bridges (1 ep.)
Oct 2014 (first aired)
Two families of four participate in a series of hilarious mini-games for the chance to win prizes whilst the celebrities in the drop zone must give hi ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
Nov 2013 (first aired)
Crackanory is a storytelling television series aimed at adults, inspired by the popular children's series Jackanory. Each episode features two 15-minu ... view
Character:
Various (6 ep.)
Jun 2013 (first aired)
Ben Shephard hosts the quiz show in which three celebrities take on an extraordinary machine in the hope of winning 20,000 pounds for charity. ... view
Character:
Self - Contestant (1 ep.)
Mar 2013 (first aired)
Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just h ... view
Character:
Soothsayer (1 ep.)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Old Jack's Boat is a British pre-school children's television series that stars Bernard Cribbins as Old Jack, the owner of a multi-coloured boat calle ... view
Character:
Emily Scuttlebutt (25 ep.)
Dec 2012 (first aired)
A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and ... view
Character:
Belladonna Zbinka (1 ep.)
Dec 2011 (first aired)
Stephen Mulhern hosts a titanic clash between ITV's biggest soaps. ... view
Character:
Self - Panellist (1 ep.)
Mar 2010 (first aired)
This Is Jinsy is a British comedy series. The pilot first aired on 1 March 2010 on BBC Three. The programme is about the bizarre residents of the fict ... view
Character:
Mrs. Goadion (16 ep.)
Apr 2009 (first aired)
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire is a British-American comedic sword and sorcery series created by Peter A. Knight, co-produced by Hat Tri ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 2008 (first aired)
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in ... view
Character:
Mrs. Meagles (14 ep.)
2007
A look at the production of Play for Today: Abigail's Party (1977). ... view
Character:
Self
2007
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tast ... view
Character:
Aunt Lottie
Feb 2007 (first aired)
Set in the Solana all-inclusive Resort, Benidorm follows the antics of regulars and first-time holiday makers on their journeys abroad. ... view
Character:
Jacqueline Stewart (72 ep.)
Jacqueline (3 ep.)
Oct 2006 (first aired)
The second series of All Star Family Fortunes began on ITV on 27 October 2007. It ran for ten weeks and aired every Saturday night, with the exception ... view
Character:
Self - Contestant (1 ep.)
2006
To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. She has invited many classic characters f ... view
Character:
Maid
2005
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century. ... view
Character:
Mary
Mar 2004 (first aired)
The Worst Week of My Life is a British comedy television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second series was aired be ... view
Character:
Eve (17 ep.)
2002
Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexu ... view
Character:
Gossip
Oct 2002 (first aired)
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War ope ... view
Character:
Eve Redmond (1 ep.)
2002
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imag ... view
Character:
Caroline / SPAT
Nov 1998 (first aired)
In early 19th-century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. ... view
Character:
Mrs Bute Crawley (5 ep.)
1998
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. Whe ... view
Character:
Mar 1997 (first aired)
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his ... view
Character:
Dierdre Tibbs (1 ep.)
Hattie Bainbridge (1 ep.)
1996
The Meldrews find a man living in their shed; he turns out to be a drug-dealer. Victor takes a gardening job, working for Patrick's new boss and deali ... view
Character:
Pippa
Sep 1996 (first aired)
Megamaths is an Educational programme about Maths that originally aired on BBC2 between 1996 and 2001. Each episode was 20 minutes long and was writte ... view
Character:
Queen of Hearts (10 ep.)
Original title: Neil Simon's London Suite
1996
On one day at an English Hotel, four different stories are shown. Diana is in London to promote her Television Series and her ex-husband Sidney shows ... view
Character:
Emma - Nanny
1995
A witch predicts an untimely end for Victor; Patrick and Pippa prepare to move far away from the Meldrews, but Patrick gets stuck with Victor while tr ... view
Character:
Pippa
1994
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confu ... view
Character:
Margaret Nicholson
1994
The Meldrews get a surprise visit from Mr. Foskett, whom they know only because they stayed in the same guest house 17 years ago. ... view
Character:
Pippa
1994
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of ... view
Character:
Josette
1991
Relations between Patrick and Victor reach a new low via an unending stream of post-it notes; during a visit from a council health inspector, Victor l ... view
Character:
Pippa
1991
A short film in which an innocent northern girl discovers her sexual identity on a trip to London, where she goes into a lesbian bar/club, and conside ... view
Character:
Speaking Woman
1991
Alan Clarke's films exposed a real, raw world as no other films have. Works such as "Scum," "Made in Britain," "The Firm," "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" and ... view
Character:
1990
The Meldrews become acquainted with a reverend who thinks he has lost his faith, and Victor learns more about a video shop clerk with whom he had a co ... view
Character:
Pippa
Jun 1990 (first aired)
Refusing to succumb to old age, Tom Ballard and Diana Trent are a pair of seasoned delinquents that cause many headaches. Their uneasy alliance is des ... view
Character:
Jane Edwards (45 ep.)
1990
An hour long special from the British political satire The New Statesman. After surviving an attempt on his life, Alan B’Stard returns to politics a ... view
Character:
Interpreter
Jan 1990 (first aired)
One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series. The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The ... view
Character:
Pippa (9 ep.)
Jan 1989 (first aired)
A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fr ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1988
Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a young property developer arrives at her front door to ... view
Character:
Traffic Monitor
1988
Cissie Colpitts drowns her cheating husband and, in the ensuing cover-up, enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett, an old friend with a long ... view
Character:
Marina Bellamy
1987
Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage gi ... view
Character:
Betty
Sep 1986 (first aired)
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional ... view
Character:
Joyce (1 ep.)
Sep 1986 (first aired)
Jacko is a painter and decorator with an eye for the ladies. He works with Eric, who's married to his sister Jean. The painting and decorating firm th ... view
Character:
Natasha (1 ep.)
1985
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed w ... view
Character:
Serving Girl
Character:
Betty (1 ep.)
1983
A housewife struggles to come to terms with her husband's imminent retirement. She finds solace in her greenhouse with her cacti. ... view
Character:
Maureen
1982
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment ... view
Character:
Millicent
1982
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays. ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
1981
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel ... view
Character:
Beatrice
1980
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next ... view
Character:
Sharon
1980
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manag ... view
Character:
Jackie
Sep 1980 (first aired)
Cowboys is a British sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s.
The show was created by Peter Learmouth whom would go on to create ... view
Character:
Muriel (7 ep.)
1980
A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrati ... view
Character:
Student
Oct 1979 (first aired)
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ... view
Character:
Carol (1 ep.)
1979
In 1913, charming, seductive and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride. ... view
Character:
Annie
Jul 1979 (first aired)
Behind a picture perfect middle class wedding resentment is brewing between the family and their guests which eventually turns to murder. ... view
Character:
Gail (4 ep.)
Apr 1979 (first aired)
Anthology of plays, each featuring an element of the 'flipside'. ... view
Character:
Gina (5 ep.)
1979
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in ... view
Character:
Doreen
1979
On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around, t ... view
Character:
Audrey
1979
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers. ... view
Character:
Receptionist
1978
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. ... view
Character:
Maggie
1978
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother. ... view
Character:
Maureen
1978
When Mal Leyton's modern jazz quintet sets out to play an unlikely gig at a college concert, the musicians really need their legendary sense of humour ... view
Character:
Vi
1978
Scully invites his mates to gatecrash his mum's New Year's Eve party. ... view
Character:
Vera
1978
Michael Frayn play part of TV series ITV Sunday Night Drama. ... view
Character:
1977
Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose teenage daughter, Abigail, is having a party. Over d ... view
Character:
Angela
May 1977 (first aired)
Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978. ... view
Character:
Leslie (1 ep.)
Apr 1977 (first aired)
Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie form ... view
Character:
Phillipa (2 ep.)
1977
After the death of his father, young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened ... view
Character:
Fanatic
1976
A glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the family quarrel and squabble incessantly with one a ... view
Character:
Gertie
Jan 1976 (first aired)
Two children travel back in time and attempt to help a Black slave boy who possesses strange powers. ... view
Character:
Ariadne (6 ep.)
1975
Teenager Diane Weaver lives in a small council flat with her brooding father, the groundskeeper of a local church. What no one realises, is how close ... view
Character:
Diane
Mar 1974 (first aired)
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC. ... view
Character:
Diane Weaver (1 ep.)
Sharon (1 ep.)
Aug 1973 (first aired)
Man About the House is a British sitcom created and written by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer, and starring Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett, Richard O' ... view
Character:
Sheila (1 ep.)
Oct 1970 (first aired)
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more tha ... view
Character:
Vera (1 ep.)
Audrey (1 ep.)