[2] Duce began her acting career in 1970; She made her first appearance on the short-lived ITV crime drama series Parkin's Patch, before going on to many television guest appearances throughout the decade, in shows including Armchair Theatre, Z-Cars, Play for Today and Crown Court, as well as film roles in The Tamarind Seed, which was her film debut, and Absolution.
Her television guest roles continued into the 1980s in a number of mainstream productions, such as The Professionals, Tales of the Unexpected, In Loving Memory, Rockliffe, and Doctor Who.
She appeared in The Tomorrow People, the revived version of the 1970s series, Wycliffe and Peak Practice.
In the 2000s, she has had guest roles in Playing the Field, Where the Heart Is and The Royle Family, where she made an appearance in the third series' Christmas special.
[3] She also had multiple guest roles in long running drama series' Casualty, The Bill and Doctors.