Gary Lucy

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Gary Edward Lucy (born 27 November 1981 in Chigwell, Essex), is an English television actor.

His mother Rosemary (Ros) and father Gary Senior still live in Essex, and he also has an older sister Samantha. Growing up, Lucy wanted to be a professional footballer, even trying out for the Tottenham and Watford youth teams. However, he didn't make the grade and turned his attention to acting.

1 Acting career
2 Personal life
3 Filmography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Acting career

Lucy cut his acting teeth in shows like Grange Hill and Dream Team before getting the role that brought him to public attention, Luke Morgan in Hollyoaks. In this teen soap Lucy did a male rape storyline, for which he won the 'best newcomer' award at the 2000 British Soap Awards.

Lucy then went on to do three series of the ITV1 drama Footballers' Wives where he played footballer Kyle Pascoe. This gave him an even higher profile with the public, partly due to the role and partly due to his offset tabloid escapades. In 2004 Lucy starred alongside Ray Winstone in the ITV drama She's Gone as Micheal Sands.

Lucy can currently be seen as PC Will Fletcher in ITV's The Bill, and has appeared in SkyOne's The Match.

[edit] Personal life

During his appearance on Footballers Wives, Lucy had a high tabloid profile thanks to encounters with Liberty X's Michelle Heaton, EastEnders Michelle Ryan, Where The Heart Is star Kelly Wenham and Coronation Streets Nikki Sanderson earned him a bit of a reputation, and he even won the Bachelor Of The Year from Company magazine ^[1]

He has been dating paediatric nurse Natasha Gray for the last couple of years, and on 30 August 2005 Gray gave birth to the couple's first child at their home in Essex, India Jasmine. According to Lucy, they do plan to marry but are in no real rush to do so.

In 2003, a Woman Of The Year competition run by the magazine Slimming World rewarded the winner a meeting with Lucy. The eventual winner was a woman who had lost 19 stone, although there was fierce competition from other including Kerry Londors^[2] and Claire Di Palma^[3]

A motorcycle fan (something he shares with his Bill character), in September 2006 he came off his Honda CBR600RR outside Elstree studios and badly bruised himself, delaying the filming schedule on The Bill ^[4]