Lucy-Anne Holmes

Lucy-Anne Holmes is a British author, actor and campaigner. She is best known for founding the No More Page 3 campaign in 2012 to convince editors to cease publishing images of topless female glamour models on the third page of tabloid newspapers,[1] for which the BBC recognised her as one of its 100 women in 2014.[2] She lives in Hertfordshire with her partner and young son.[3] She grew up a Catholic and is now a Quaker.[4]

Actor

Stage

2006 Cast member for The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic.[5]

2006 Ismene in Frank McGuiness' reworking "after Racine" of Phaedra at the Donmar Warehouse.[6]

2007 Isabel in All About My Mother at the Old Vic.[7]

Television and Film appearances

  • 2005–2006 Midsomer murders (TV Series)
Four Funerals and a Wedding (2006) – Polly (as Lucy-Anne Holmes)[8]
Sauce for the Goose (2005) – Factory Worker[9]

Author
  • 50 Ways to Find a Lover (Pan, 2009)[13]
  • The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend (Pan, 2010)[14]
  • Unlike A Virgin (Sphere, 2011)[15]
  • Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy (Sphere, 2014) winner of the Romantic Novelists Association 'Rom Com of the Year 2015'[16][17]
  • How To Start A Revolution (Transworld Digital, 2015) – a how-to for making change happen, and the history of the No More Page 3 campaign.[18]
  • Don't Hold My Head Down (Unbound, 2019) – a memoir about sex.[19]

References
  1. Parkinson, Justin (20 January 2015). "How Page Three fell out of step with the times". Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. "Who are the 100 Women 2014?". BBC. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. Don't Hold My Head Down Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine unbound.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
  4. Hardy, Rebecca (4 April 2019). "I would like to… make life kinder, freer and more respectful for the women coming after me". The Friend. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  5. Wolf, Matt (11 May 2005). "The Philadelphia Story". Variety. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  6. Benedict, David (25 April 2006). "Phaedra". Variety. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  7. Benedict, David (5 September 2007). "All About My Mother". Variety. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  8. Midsomer Murders Series 9 Episode 8, Four Funerals and a Wedding Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Radio Times radiotimes.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
  9. Midsomer Murders Series 8 Episode 7, Sauce for the Goose Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Radio Times radiotimes.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
  10. Trial and Retribution XIII Curriculum Vitae (2007) Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2019
  11. ROFLMAO Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Director Simon O'Neill's site. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  12. Foyle' War Series 8 Episode 2, The Cage Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Radio Times radiotimes.com Retrieved 12 July 2019
  13. 50 Ways to Find a Lover Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine panmacmillan.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
  14. The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine panmacmillan.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
  15. Unlike A Virgin Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine littlebrown.co.uk Retrieved 12 July 2019
  16. Shaffi, Sarah (17 March 2015). "Stirling's Struck is Romantic Novel of the Year". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  17. Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine littlebrown.co.uk Retrieved 12 July 2019
  18. How To Start A Revolution Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Penguin Books Retrieved 12 July 2019
  19. Don't Hold My Head Down Archived 12 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine unbound.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019

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