Duke grew up just north of Richmond in rural Mechanicsville, Virginia. The youngest of five, Duke spent much of his early years lost in his imagination. In fact, you might say his very first experiences with acting meant patrolling the neighborhood, beating up bad guys and saving the world! The "Scottish play" was Duke's first introduction to professional theater when he was 14. In Act III, his father Banquo is murdered. In an attempt to cry actual tears on stage, Duke would smear makeup into his eyes, enduring intense stinging and partial blindness nightly. Even in those early years, what...
