Lucy Spiller

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Lucy Spiller
Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller
First appearance	Pilot
Information
Age	Late 30s
Occupation	Editor for DirtNow magazine
Relationships	Holt McLaren (fuckbuddy) Tina Harrod (ex-fuckbuddy)
Relatives	Leo Spiller (brother)
Episode count	13
Portrayed by	Courteney Cox

Lucy Spiller is a fictional character on the FX television series Dirt, played by Courteney Cox.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Characterization
2 Character history
3 Trivia
4 References

[edit] Characterization

Lucy is a workaholic with a brilliant eye for a story and little remorse about the lives she tangles with. She is constantly burdened with the guilt of the suicide of her father and the feelings of loneliness which stem from this. She does however, truly and unconditionally loves her best friend Don Konkey and her brother Leo. For Don, she goes to great lengths to keep him healthy - on his medication, and she and her brother are also close. She finds herself unable to reach orgasm with anything other than her vibrator until she meets Holt McLaren.

[edit] Character history

As a teenager, Lucy came home to find her father had committed suicide by hanging himself, which his suicide note promised was for her benefit. Childhood friend Don Konkey was the only one there for her after her mother, and to an extent her brother had tried to move on from this while she was left still grieving.

After graduating college, Lucy went to work for TV Guide where her career was launched by an article on Sammy Winter, the child star of Buster Rules, a fictional Charles in Charge-style 80s sitcom. While working there she befriend future rival Tina Harrod (played by Jennifer Aniston) with whom she would have several sexual encounters, which she later dismisses. She later was chosen to manage both Dirt!, a fictional tabloid and Now, an American institution before deciding she could merge them into a glossy tabloid.

Lucy Spiller runs the magazine DirtNow, (previously two separate magazines), which is marketed as a respectable tabloid. Lucy is under constant pressure to get concrete information on gossip to publish, even bribing her own brother to get photos of his "in closet" star boyfriend. After the suicide of her father when they were younger, Lucy has not had outstanding relationships with men and has trouble having an orgasm, which she mainly gets through her vibrator. However, she slept with Holt McLaren several times and each one had an orgasm. He however seems to want to end that relationship as soon as possible but is drawn to her anyway.

For a period of time, Lucy is stalked by a mysterious stranger who she refuses to accept could be longtime schizophrenic friend Don Konkey, but is more disturbed when it is revealed it had been her brother. She berates her brother on his "sexual indecision" and mislaid projection of his pain over his father's suicide after he accuses her of making victims out of the celebrities she does stories about. After he reveals that he had been suicidal, like her father, he echoes the words in his suicide note, upsetting Lucy.

Celebrity couple Holt McLaren and Julia Mallory's lives are turned upside down by Lucy. Julia's life takes several unfortunate turns, while Holt's career is on the up, but neither of them are happy. After Tina Harrod reveals to Julia about Lucy's relations with Holt - personal and professional, Julia stabs Lucy repeatedly, savagely, at her home. Lucy tells Don to come and take pictures of her as she is, and then to call 911 afterwards. The episode ends with her lying in a pool of blood, cradled in his arms.