Personal Info
Birth date
1952-06-28 (73 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Also known as
Janine Drzewicki
Janine Duvitski
Biography
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.
Filmography
Midsomer Murders
7.508
Overview:
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 young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
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 than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Minder
6.8
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.Foyle's War
7.898
Overview:
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 opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
6.616
Overview:
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 Rohan, and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg.Benidorm
7.5
Overview:
Set in the Solana all-inclusive Resort, Benidorm follows the antics of regulars and first-time holiday makers on their journeys abroad.Trial & Retribution
6.769
Overview:
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.Playhouse
7
Overview:
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.Plebs
7.281
Overview:
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 happens to be ancient Rome.The Worst Week of My Life
8.1
Overview:
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 between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, The Worst Christmas of My Life was shown during December 2006. It was written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni.The Couple Next Door
5.9
Overview:
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 shape of the couple next door, alpha traffic cop Danny and his wife, glamorous yoga instructor Becka, but after Danny and Evie share a passionate night together there is trouble ahead.Little Dorrit
7.806
Overview:
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 London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.One Foot in the Grave
7.561
Overview:
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 programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. The series was largely filmed on location in Walkford, near New Milton in Hampshire, although several clues show that the series may have been set in Hampshire – possibly Winchester. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.Waiting for God
7.3
Overview:
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 destined to make life difficult at the Bayview Retirement Village.The New World
6.5
Overview:
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.Houdini & Doyle
6.523
Overview:
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 what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?Citizen Smith
6.2
Overview:
Classic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie forms the Tooting Popular Front with a small group of his friends. However, he soon finds himself struggling to get his ambitious plans off the ground due to his laid back attitude and lack of organisation.The First Great Train Robbery
6.7
Overview:
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.Still Open All Hours
6
Overview:
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 featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original seriesA Young Doctor's Notebook
7.102
Overview:
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 impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.The Madness of King George
6.786
Overview:
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.About a Boy
6.692
Overview:
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 imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.A Bit of Fry & Laurie
7.947
Overview:
A British comedy television series with turns of phrase and elaborate wordplay, written by and starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.Brush Strokes
5.9
Overview:
Jacko (Karl Howman) is a painter and decorator with an eye for the ladies. He works with Eric (Mike Walling), who's married to his sister Jean (Nicky Croydon). The painting and decorating firm they work for is owned by Lionel Bainbridge (Gary Waldhorn). Other characters include Lionel's wife, Veronica (Elizabeth Counsell), his daughter Lelsey (Kim Thomson, later Erika Hoffman) and wine bar owner Elmo Putney (Howard Lew Lewis).Murder, They Hope
7.333
Overview:
After their trip to Middlesbrough turned a little more explosive than they thought, Gemma and Terry finally decide to pack up the smouldering remains of their coach tour business and set out on a new adventure as fully-fledged private detectives.Little Joe
5.7
Overview:
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 supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.Dracula
6.4
Overview:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.Angel
5.5
Overview:
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.Acting
TBANikhil & Jay (13 Episodes) as Nana
2024The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Old Pennicruik (voice)
2023The Couple Next Door (6 Episodes) as Gloria
2023Tom Jones (4 Episodes) as Mrs. Wilkins
2021Agatha Raisin: Kissing Christmas Goodbye as Doris Crampton
2021Murder, They Hope (1 Episode) as Betty
2019Little Joe as Lady
2018Benidorm: 10 Years on Holiday as Herself
2017Hospital People (6 Episodes) as Mrs. Leydon
2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves as Pippa (archive footage) (uncredited)
2016Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
2016Houdini & Doyle (1 Episode) as Martha
2016Doctor Thorne (3 Episodes) as Lady Scatcherd
2015Boy Meets Girl (12 Episodes) as Peggy
2014Still Open All Hours (1 Episode) as Elsie Bridges
2013Plebs (1 Episode) as Soothsayer
2013Old Jack's Boat (25 Episodes) as Emily Scuttlebutt
2012A Young Doctor's Notebook (1 Episode) as Belladonna Zbinka
2011The Big Quiz (1 Episode) as Self - Panellist
2010This Is Jinsy (16 Episodes) as Mrs. Goadion
2009Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire (1 Episode) as Unknown
2008Little Dorrit (14 Episodes) as Mrs. Meagles
2007All About 'Abigail's Party' as Self
2007Angel as Aunt Lottie
2007Benidorm (72, 3 Episode) as Jacqueline Stewart, Jacqueline
2006All Star Family Fortunes (1 Episode) as Self - Contestant
2006The Children's Party at the Palace as Maid
2005The New World as Mary
2004The Worst Week of My Life (17 Episodes) as Eve
2002George Eliot: A Scandalous Life as Gossip
2002Foyle's War (1 Episode) as Eve Redmond
2002About a Boy as Caroline / SPAT
1998Vanity Fair (6 Episodes) as Mrs. Bute Crawley
1998Swept from the Sea as Unknown
1997Trial & Retribution (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1997Midsomer Murders (1, 1 Episode) as Dierdre Tibbs, Hattie Bainbridge
1996Starbound as Pippa
1996Megamaths (10 Episodes) as Queen of Hearts
1995The Wisdom Of The Witch as Pippa
1994The Madness of King George as Margaret Nicholson
1994The Man Who Blew Away as Pippa
1994Giorgino as Josette
1991The Man In The Long Black Coat as Pippa
1991Came Out, It Rained, Went Back In Again as Speaking Woman
1991Director: Alan Clarke as Unknown
1990Who's Listening as Pippa
1990Waiting for God (45 Episodes) as Jane Edwards
1990One Foot in the Grave (9 Episodes) as Pippa
1989A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1 Episode) as Unknown
1988Number 27 as Traffic Monitor
1988Drowning by Numbers as Marina Bellamy
1987East of Ipswich as Betty
1986Casualty (1 Episode) as Joyce
1986Brush Strokes (1 Episode) as Natasha
1985The Bride as Serving Girl
1982The Missionary as Millicent
1982Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
1981Sons and Lovers as Beatrice
1980Grown-Ups as Sharon
1980Breaking Glass as Jackie
1980Cowboys (7 Episodes) as Muriel
1980The Black Stuff as Student
1979Minder (1 Episode) as Carol
1979Dracula as Annie
1979Afternoon Off as Doreen
1979Blue Remembered Hills as Audrey
1979The Knowledge as Receptionist
1978The First Great Train Robbery as Maggie
1978Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf as Maureen
1978One of These Nights I'm Gonna Get an Early Day as Vi
1978Scully's New Year's Eve as Vera
1978Alphabetical Order as Unknown
1977Abigail's Party as Angela
1977Citizen Smith (2 Episodes) as Phillipa
1977Jabberwocky as Fanatic
1976A Collier's Friday Night as Gertie
1976The Georgian House (6 Episodes) as Ariadne
1975Diane as Diane
1974Playhouse (1, 1 Episode) as Diane Weaver, Sharon
1970Play for Today (1, 1 Episode) as Vera, Audrey