Lucy Gaskell

Lucy Gaskell (born 10 July 1980 in Wigan) is an English actress. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1998.

Career

Gaskell made her professional stage debut in the Oxford Stage Company's production of The Cherry Orchard which toured the UK in June/July 2003. Gaskell was nominated for the Best Newcomer 2003 award by the Royal Television Society for her role in Cutting It.

Gaskell is known for the roles of Ruby Ferris in the BBC1 drama series Cutting It and Kirsty Clements in Casualty. She has also appeared in television and in theatre in numerous roles including Waking the Dead, Holby City, and Where the Heart Is. Other recent roles include Kathy Costello Nightingale in the 2007 Doctor Who episode "Blink" and Judy in Lesbian Vampire Killers. In 2010 she began a recurring role in the BBC horror drama Being Human as Sam, the love interest of main character George. From 2010 to 2011, she starred in Casualty, playing nurse Kirsty Clements, starring alongside schoolfriend Georgia Taylor, who plays Dr Ruth Winters. When she joined Casualty she said in interviews that she was contracted indefinitely, but her pregnancy meant that she left after only one year.

Personal life

Gaskell is married to actor Mark Bonnar (since 28 December 2007) and gave birth to their first child, Martha, in July 2011.

Television

• Crossing Lines (series 1, episode 7) - Fox (2013)
• Great Night Out - Mandy (2013)
• Misfits - Lola (2012)
• Casualty - Kirsty Clements (2010–11)
• Being Human - Sam
• Paradox (TV series) 2009 (Episode 3) - Katie
• Whatever it Takes 2009 - Fiona
• Holby Blue 2008 - Anna
• Doctor Who 2007 (Blink) - Kathy Nightingale
• Nuclear Secrets 2007 - Genia Peierls
• Director's Debut 2006 (Baby Boom) - Eve Warner
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire 2006 (Constantine) - Constantia
• Vincent 2006 - Dawn Rice
• Waking the Dead 2004 (Shadowplay -Episodes 1+2) - Fay Harding
• From Bard to Verse 2004 - Various Roles
• Would like to meet 2010 (series 5, episode 1) -Hayley
• Cutting It 2002–04 (Series 1-3) - Ruby Ferris
• Holby City 2002 (Ghosts) - Joanne Townsend
• Where the Heart Is 2002 (Count On Me) - Jeanette Bryant

Film

• Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009) - Judy
• The Last Drop (2005) - Benitta
• Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005) - Ormaline

Theatre

• The Big House (Lennox Robinson) 2007 - Abbey Theatre, Dublin - Kate Alcock
• Taking Stock (Rob Johnstone) 2005 - The Studio, Manchester
• The Lunatic Queen (Torben Betts) 2005 - Riverside Studios, London - Princess Juana
• All the Ordinary Angels (Nick Leather) 2005 - Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre - Lulu
• Portugal (Zoltán Egressy) 2004 Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre London - Ribbon
• The Cherry Orchard 2003 Oxford Stage Company national tour - Dunyasha

Radio

• Leona Cash 2008 BBC Radio 4 - Leona Cash

Other work

• Sapphire and Steel: Water Like a Stone - The Girl
• Sapphire and Steel: Cruel Immortality - The Carer
• Fable III - Various Voices
• Being Human - Bad Blood - Audiobook Reader

External links

• Lucy Gaskell at the Internet Movie Database
• Lucy Gaskell Fan Site