Lu Corfield

Lucy "Lu" Corfield (born 1979 or 1980) is a Welsh actress known for her roles as Freya Wilson in Doctors, Ruth in Last Tango in Halifax and Joyce Edevan in Clink. In 2020, she appeared in the BBC Three series In My Skin.

Career Raised in Four Crosses near Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, she became head girl at Welshpool High School. Due to study English at university, she caught the acting bug through appearances with the Montgomeryshire Youth Theatre. After A-Levels, she approached Amnesty International to set up a theatre in education company, with which she toured for two years.

Since her graduation, Corfield has worked in both stage and television.

Television roles include Vera, Agatha Raisin, Game of Thrones, Candy Cabs, Rev, EastEnders, The Wrong Mans, Watson and Oliver, Stella, Holby City, Casualty.

Video game roles include The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

Her theatre work includes shows at The Royal Court Theatre, The Young Vic, Soho Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company and with Headlong Theatre.

She also appeared in The Green Party's 2014 and 2016 Party Political Broadcasts to show her support for the Party.

In April 2019, it was announced that Corfield was cast in new women's prison drama series, Clink, which is the first-ever scripted drama commissioned for 5Star. She portrays the role of Joyce Edevan, a woman convicted of murdering her girlfriend. She appeared in all ten episode of the first series. It is currently not known if or when the series will return.

In 2019, she appeared in Channel 4's The Accident alongside Sarah Lancashire, Adrian Scarborough, and Ruth Madeley.

In 2020, Corfield worked with Lancashire again and joined the cast of Last Tango in Halifax as Ruth, a colleague and potential new love interest for Sarah Lancashire's character, Caroline. Her portrayal of Ruth was highly acclaimed.

Personal life Corfield is a campaigner for LGBTQIA Rights, having appeared in the Diversity Role Models Calendar to show her support towards the prevention of homophobic bullying in UK schools.

Corfield is a Patron of Pride Cymru, and the co-founder of House of Pride, a company that creates a platform and spaces for the queer female and non-binary community.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2008 Consuming Passion: 100 Years of Mills & Boon Anti Student Television film 2011 Quiff and Boot Boot Television film 2011 Random Jane Television film 2011 Isle of Spagg Duck (voice) Short film 2012 The Woman in Black Jannet (voice) Uncredited 2012 Sickness & Disability HR Manager (voice) Short film 2016 Three Women Wait for Death Hester Short film 2016 Firecracker Lotte Short film 2016 Wyrdoes Elsab Short film

Television

Video games Year Title Role Notes 2015 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Lizzie Graves 2015 Tearaway Unfolded Female Gibberish 2015 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone Iris von Everec 2021 Subnautica: Below Zero Lillian Bench (voice)