Clifton Duncan

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Duncan showed signs of creative aptitude from an early age, dabbling in music, poetry, and even fiction, but preferred illustration and cartooning above all. As the son of a mother who was in the US Armed Forces, Duncan split his formative years between Hampton Roads, Virginia and Europe, spending his prepubescence in Belgium. In his senior year of high school, the hitherto-introverted Duncan enrolled in a drama class, and later made his first stage appearance as Hugo in "Bye Bye, Birdie!". Despite being accepted into the Savannah College of Art and Design, Duncan instead decided to study acting at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he eventually earned the faculty's Theatrical Promise Award, as well as the Bobby Chandler Award for Excellence in Theatre. After limited success working as a non-union actor in Washington, D.C., Duncan decided to further his training and got accepted into New York University's prestigious Graduate Acting Pr