Charlotte Lucas

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Charlotte Lucas (born 29 May 1976) is an English actress and painter.

Charlotte Lucas Actress

Early life[]

Born into an acting family, Lucas is the granddaughter of Linden Travers, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and Guy Leon. Charlotte is the great niece of Bill Travers who appeared in Born Free. Charlotte's mother is Susan Travers who starred in Peeping Tom.

Lucas is the second cousin of actresses Penelope Wilton, Bill Travers' son Will and Richard Morant. Her first cousin is BBC newsreader, Alice Bhandhukravi.[citation needed]

Career[]

She is best known for her role as Selena Geeson in Bad Girls. She also starred in the 2003 film Oh Marbella!, as well as a number of other TV roles including EastEnders, Midsomer Murders, Doctors, Not Going Out, and an episode of Adventure Inc. when filming transferred to the UK for four episodes. Lucas played the role of Mrs Bassat in BBC One's 2014 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel Jamaica Inn.

Lucas attended Drama and Theatre Studies at Birmingham University, before concluding her studies at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.

Lucas' theatre credits include Red Velvet (Tricycle), Posh (West End and Royal Court Theatre), The Changeling (Young Vic), Yes, Prime Minister (West End), Fast Labour (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Hampstead), World’s End (Trafalgar Studios), Called to Account, Darfur – How Long is Never? and Fabulation (Tricycle), Habeas Corpus (Royal Theatre Northampton), A Thought in Three Parts (BAC) and Sharp Relief and Fen (Salisbury Playhouse).

She starred as Ellen Tree in Indhu Rubasingham’s critically acclaimed production of Red Velvet at St Ann’s Warehouse, New York, following a transfer from the Tricycle Theatre, London in March 2014, and then David Hare's, The Absence of War in February 2015. She went on to star in The Distance at The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. Then she joined Kenneth Branagh's Company to reprise her role as Ellen Tree at the Garrick theatre in 2016.

She went on to film the third series of BroadChurch and in 2017 starred as the lead at the Hampstead Studio theatre's premier of Dave Florez's play Experience, and in the London premiere of the hit American comedy play Speech and Debate by Stephen Karam at the Trafalgar Studios.

Art[]

She paints and her work is held in a number of private collections in the U.K. and Europe. She is currently represented by a London-based art gallery, GV Art, where recent work showcased portraiture.

Coaching and training[]

Lucas recently launched a new venture working with businesses to assist with training and communications, called Red Alert Speech. The company is a joint venture with actress, Celia Adams.[1]

Filmography[]

Film
Year Title Role Director
1999 Digging Holes Berne’s Andrew Clements
2003 Oh Marbella! Emily Piers Ashworth
2006 These Foolish Things Lily Evans Julia Taylor-Stanley
2008 Last Chance Harvey Gwen Joel Hopkins
2011 A Thousand Kisses Deep Stella Dana Lustig
2012 Cleanskin Nurse Hadi Hajaig
2018 Ride Mrs. Lucas Jeremy Ungar
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2003 Adventure Inc. Lady Fay Sandringham Series 1 (guest; #1.15)
2003 EastEnders Yvonne Soap opera (recurring; 5 episodes)
2003–04 Bad Girls Selena Geeson Series 5–6 (regular; 14 episodes)
2005 Down to Earth Sgt. Prosser Series 5 (guest; #5.3)
2005 Holby City Lexie Robbins Series 7 (guest; #7.49)
2006 Judge John Deed Sasha Bard Series 5 (guest; #5.6)
2006 The Bill Andrea Manning Series 22 (guest; #22.83)
2008 Midsomer Murders Sophie Hammond Series 11 (guest; #11.1)
2009 Doctors Cat Jennson Series 11 (guest; #11.13)
2009 Casualty Ronnie King Series 24 (guest; #24.16)
2011 Doctors Amy Layfield Series 12 (guest; #12.178)
2012 Not Going Out Dr. Kingsley Series 5 (guest; #5.5)
2014 Jamaica Inn Mrs. Bassat Miniseries (supporting; 2 episodes)
2015 WPC 56 Charlotte Briggs Series 3 (supporting; 5 episodes)
2017 Broadchurch Sarah Elsey Series 3 (guest; #2.3 & #2.4)
2017 Father Brown Rose Marie Sturgess Series 6 (guest; #6.1)
2018 A Very English Scandal Janet Lawrence Miniseries (supporting; 1 episode)
2020 Call the Midwife Miss Williams Series 9 (guest; #9.6)
2020 The Queen's Gambit Mrs. Dodge Miniseries (supporting; 1 episode)

References[]

  1. ^ "Red Alert Speech". Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2020-07-18.

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