Lucy Cohu

Television

Cohu's first acting job after graduating from drama school was at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, in a production of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. She made her television debut in an episode of Casualty.^[2] She went on to work extensively in television, including playing the role Major Jessica Bailey in the popular ITV show Soldier Soldier followed by many parts in British television. In 2005, she portrayed Princess Margaret in the semi-fictional version of her life, The Queen's Sister, for Channel 4, for which she was nominated for Emmy and BAFTA awards. She was widely praised for the role; for example, Variety disliked the "somewhat tawdry biopic", but said that "Cohu makes it all worth watching".^[3] Cohu herself said she played Margaret like a proper woman with an insatiable and tremendous energy for life: previous images in her mind had been of a bloated and sick elderly princess confined to a wheelchair. She hoped the production hadn't offended anyone as she really liked the Queen.^[4]

Cohu has also appeared in Cape Wrath, Ballet Shoes, as Theo Danes,^[5] and Torchwood: Children of Earth, as Alice Carter, the daughter of Captain Jack Harkness. She played Madame Maigret in the ITV television series Maigret starring Rowan Atkinson.

Film

Cohu has appeared in several films, including Gosford Park and Becoming Jane.

Theatre work

In 2018 Cohu appeared in a production of Speaking in Tongues at the Duke of York's Theatre, opposite John Simm, Ian Hart and Kerry Fox.^[6] Cohu received positive reviews for this performance.^[7] In February 2010 she began a five-week run in a production of An Enemy of the People at the Crucible Theatre, starring alongside Sir Antony Sher as Katrina Stockmann, and later appeared in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass at the Tricycle Theatre. She is due to appear in Dawn King’s play ‘The Trials’ at the Donmar Warehouse in London from 12 August 2022 to 27 August.

Television

Film