[3] Duarte died on 17 April 2020, during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal, at the age of 46 due to an acute myocardial infarction.
He started his acting career with several stage plays under the renowned theater directors Adolfo Gutkin, Rogério de Carvalho, Geraldo Touché, Francisco Salgado, Carlos J. Pessoa, Laila Ripol and Miguel Seabra.
On the television screen, he acted in the telefilm Teorema de Pitágoras, directed by Gonçalo Galvão Telles.
When he became a popular actor with the serials, he played the leading role in the series Ecuador which was based on the novel by Miguel Sousa Tavares.
At the time of his death in 2020, he was recording the Brazilian soap opera Amor de Mãe, showing on SIC, joined the cast of the film Nothing Ever Happened directed by Gonçalo Galvão Teles.