Lucy Cohu

Lucy Ann Cohu (born 2 October 1968) is an English stage and film actress, known for portraying Princess Margaret in The Queen's Sister, Evelyn Brogan in Cape Wrath and Alice Carter in Torchwood: Children of Earth.

Early life Lucy Ann Cohu was born in Wiltshire in 1968. She attended a boarding school, Stamford High School, as a child, and went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Career Before she made a living from acting, she used to perform for children's parties. She has been quoted as saying that had she not found success as an actress she would have gone into children's nursing.

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. 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 who used a wheelchair. She hoped the production hadn't offended anyone as she really liked the Queen.

Cohu has also appeared in Cape Wrath, Ballet Shoes, as Theo Danes, 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. Cohu received positive reviews for this performance. 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 appeared in Dawn King's play The Trials at the Donmar Warehouse in London in August 2022.

Personal life Cohu lives in Kensal Green in Brent, London.

Awards In November 2008, Cohu won an International Emmy award for Best Actress for her role in the true-life drama Forgiven.

Filmography

Television

Film