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'''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 model]]s on the third page of tabloid newspapers,<ref>{{cite news |last=Parkinson |first=Justin |date=20 January 2015 |title=How Page Three fell out of step with the times |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30899581 |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713031556/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30899581 |archive-date=13 July 2019 }}</ref> for which the BBC recognised her as one of its [[100 Women (BBC)|100 women]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |title=Who are the 100 Women 2014? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-29758792 |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815234600/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-29758792 |archive-date=15 August 2019 }}</ref>
She lives in Hertfordshire with her partner and son.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://unbound.com/books/dont-hold-my-head-down/|title=Don't Hold My Head Down|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712102736/https://unbound.com/books/dont-hold-my-head-down/ |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=unbound.com|isbn=9781783526222|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> She grew up a [[Catholic]] and is now a [[Quaker]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Hardy |first=Rebecca |date=4 April 2019 |title=I would like to… make life kinder, freer and more respectful for the women coming after me |url=https://thefriend.org/article/i-would-like-to-do-what-i-can-to-make-life-kinder-freer-and-more-respectful |work=The Friend |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712123114/https://thefriend.org/article/i-would-like-to-do-what-i-can-to-make-life-kinder-freer-and-more-respectful |archive-date=12 July 2019}}</ref>
'''Lucy-Anne Holmes''' is a British author, actress 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 model]]s on the third page of tabloid newspapers,<ref>{{cite news |last=Parkinson |first=Justin |date=20 January 2015 |title=How Page Three fell out of step with the times |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30899581 |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713031556/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30899581 |archive-date=13 July 2019 }}</ref> for which the BBC recognised her as one of its [[100 Women (BBC)|100 women]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |title=Who are the 100 Women 2014? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-29758792 |publisher=BBC |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815234600/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-29758792 |archive-date=15 August 2019 }}</ref>
She lives in Hertfordshire with her partner and son.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://unbound.com/books/dont-hold-my-head-down/|title=Don't Hold My Head Down|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712102736/https://unbound.com/books/dont-hold-my-head-down/ |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=unbound.com|isbn=9781783526222|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> She grew up a [[Catholic]] and is now a [[Quaker]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Hardy |first=Rebecca |date=4 April 2019 |title=I would like to... make life kinder, freer and more respectful for the women coming after me |url=https://thefriend.org/article/i-would-like-to-do-what-i-can-to-make-life-kinder-freer-and-more-respectful |work=The Friend |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712123114/https://thefriend.org/article/i-would-like-to-do-what-i-can-to-make-life-kinder-freer-and-more-respectful |archive-date=12 July 2019}}</ref>


Holmes has authored several books: ''50 Ways to Find a Lover'' (Pan, 2009);<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lucy-anne-holmes/50-ways-to-find-a-lover/9780330458399|title=50 Ways to Find a Lover|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712121258/https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lucy-anne-holmes/50-ways-to-find-a-lover/9780330458399 |archivedate=12 July 2019 |website=panmacmillan.com|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> ''The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend'' (Pan, 2010);<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lucy-anne-holmes/the-im-perfect-girlfriend/9780330534147|title=The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712121305/https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lucy-anne-holmes/the-im-perfect-girlfriend/9780330534147 |archivedate=12 July 2019 |website=panmacmillan.com|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> ''Unlike A Virgin'' (Sphere, 2011);<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/lucy-anne-holmes/unlike-a-virgin/9780748127702/|title=Unlike A Virgin|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712113645/https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/lucy-anne-holmes/unlike-a-virgin/9780748127702/ |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=littlebrown.co.uk|date=29 January 2019|isbn=9780748127702|accessdate=12 July 2019|last1=Holmes|first1=Lucy-Anne}}</ref> ''Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy'' (Sphere, 2014), winner of the Romantic Novelists Association 'Rom Com of the Year 2015';<ref>{{cite news |last=Shaffi |first=Sarah |date=17 March 2015 |title=Stirling's Struck is Romantic Novel of the Year |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/stirlings-struck-romantic-novel-year |work=The Bookseller |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417224626/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/stirlings-struck-romantic-novel-year |archive-date=17 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/lucy-anne-holmes/just-a-girl-standing-in-front-of-a-boy/9780748127917/|title=Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712113642/https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/lucy-anne-holmes/just-a-girl-standing-in-front-of-a-boy/9780748127917/ |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=littlebrown.co.uk|date=29 January 2019|isbn=9780748127917|accessdate=12 July 2019|last1=Holmes|first1=Lucy-Anne}}</ref> ''How To Start A Revolution'' (Transworld Digital, 2015) – described a how-to for making change happen, and the history of the No More Page 3 campaign;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1109964/how-to-start-a-revolution/9781473526570.html|title=How To Start A Revolution|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712121301/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1109964/how-to-start-a-revolution/9781473526570.html |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=Penguin Books|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> and ''Don't Hold My Head Down'' (Unbound, 2019) – a memoir about sex.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://unbound.com/books/dont-hold-my-head-down/|title=Don't Hold My Head Down|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712102736/https://unbound.com/books/dont-hold-my-head-down/ |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=unbound.com|isbn=9781783526222|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> In 2021, her ''Women on Top of the World: What Women Think About When They're Having Sex'', written after interviewing 51 women around the world, was published.<ref>{{cite web |title=Book: Women on Top of the World, edited by Lucy-Anne Holmes |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2021/03/the-a-list-what-to-do-at-home-this-week |work=Vanity Fair |date=1 March 2021 |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>
Holmes has authored several books: ''50 Ways to Find a Lover'' (Pan, 2009);<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lucy-anne-holmes/50-ways-to-find-a-lover/9780330458399|title=50 Ways to Find a Lover|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712121258/https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lucy-anne-holmes/50-ways-to-find-a-lover/9780330458399 |archivedate=12 July 2019 |website=panmacmillan.com|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> ''The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend'' (Pan, 2010);<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lucy-anne-holmes/the-im-perfect-girlfriend/9780330534147|title=The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712121305/https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/lucy-anne-holmes/the-im-perfect-girlfriend/9780330534147 |archivedate=12 July 2019 |website=panmacmillan.com|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> ''Unlike A Virgin'' (Sphere, 2011);<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/lucy-anne-holmes/unlike-a-virgin/9780748127702/|title=Unlike A Virgin|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712113645/https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/lucy-anne-holmes/unlike-a-virgin/9780748127702/ |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=littlebrown.co.uk|date=29 January 2019|isbn=9780748127702|accessdate=12 July 2019|last1=Holmes|first1=Lucy-Anne}}</ref> ''Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy'' (Sphere, 2014), winner of the Romantic Novelists Association 'Rom Com of the Year 2015';<ref>{{cite news |last=Shaffi |first=Sarah |date=17 March 2015 |title=Stirling's Struck is Romantic Novel of the Year |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/stirlings-struck-romantic-novel-year |work=The Bookseller |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417224626/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/stirlings-struck-romantic-novel-year |archive-date=17 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/lucy-anne-holmes/just-a-girl-standing-in-front-of-a-boy/9780748127917/|title=Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712113642/https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/lucy-anne-holmes/just-a-girl-standing-in-front-of-a-boy/9780748127917/ |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=littlebrown.co.uk|date=29 January 2019|isbn=9780748127917|accessdate=12 July 2019|last1=Holmes|first1=Lucy-Anne}}</ref> ''How To Start A Revolution'' (Transworld Digital, 2015) – described a how-to for making change happen, and the history of the No More Page 3 campaign;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1109964/how-to-start-a-revolution/9781473526570.html|title=How To Start A Revolution|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712121301/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1109964/how-to-start-a-revolution/9781473526570.html |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=Penguin Books|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> and ''Don't Hold My Head Down'' (Unbound, 2019) – a memoir about sex.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://unbound.com/books/dont-hold-my-head-down/|title=Don't Hold My Head Down|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712102736/https://unbound.com/books/dont-hold-my-head-down/ |archivedate=12 July 2019|website=unbound.com|isbn=9781783526222|accessdate=12 July 2019}}</ref> In 2021, her ''Women on Top of the World: What Women Think About When They're Having Sex'', written after interviewing 51 women around the world, was published.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Book: Women on Top of the World, edited by Lucy-Anne Holmes |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2021/03/the-a-list-what-to-do-at-home-this-week |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=1 March 2021 |access-date=15 June 2021}}</ref>


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== External links ==
==External links==
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* {{IMDb name|nm1882597|Lucy-Ann Holmes}}
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* [https://thefriend.org/article/i-would-like-to-do-what-i-can-to-make-life-kinder-freer-and-more-respectful 2019 interview] in ''[[The Friend (Quaker magazine)|The Friend]]''
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* [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/08/lucy-ann-holmes-no-more-page-3-the-sun_n_6826762.html 2015 interview] in ''[[Huffington Post]]''
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sc6v8 2015 interview] on ''[[Woman's Hour]]''
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* [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lucy-anne-holmes Lucy-Ann Holmes] in ''[[The Guardian]]''
* [https://www.jounwin.co.uk/lucy-anne-holmes Lucy-Ann Holmes] at Jo Unwin Literary Agency


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'''Articles by Lucy-Ann Holmes'''
*[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/18/i-wanted-to-really-explore-my-own-pleasure-how-i-rebooted-my-sex-life I wanted to explore my own pleasure' – how I rebooted my sex life] Article in [[The Guardian]], 18 May 2019.
*[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/apr/01/if-you-want-write-abaout-feminism-online-be-ready-to-eal-with-the-haters If you want to write about feminism online, be ready to take on the haters] Article in [[The Guardian]], 1 April 2015.
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'''Other Links'''
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*[http://www.jounwin.co.uk/portfolio/lucy-anne-holmes/ Lucy-Ann Holmes] at Jo Unwin Literary Agency
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*[https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/08/lucy-ann-holmes-no-more-page-3-the-sun_n_6826762.html No More Page 3's Lucy-Anne Holmes Talks Activist Burnout, Being Skint And (Probably) Winning Her Fight Against The Sun] Huffington Post article by Louise Ridley, 8 March 2015
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sc6v8 “I just felt a lot of passion” No More Page Three founder, Lucy-Anne Holmes on how she spread her idea] BBC, 28 May 2015.
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*[https://thefriend.org/article/i-would-like-to-do-what-i-can-to-make-life-kinder-freer-and-more-respectful Interview by Rebecca Hardy] The Friend, 4 April 2019

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Lucy-Anne Holmes is a British author, actress 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 son.[3] She grew up a Catholic and is now a Quaker.[4]

Holmes has authored several books: 50 Ways to Find a Lover (Pan, 2009);[5] The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend (Pan, 2010);[6] Unlike A Virgin (Sphere, 2011);[7] Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy (Sphere, 2014), winner of the Romantic Novelists Association 'Rom Com of the Year 2015';[8][9] How To Start A Revolution (Transworld Digital, 2015) – described a how-to for making change happen, and the history of the No More Page 3 campaign;[10] and Don't Hold My Head Down (Unbound, 2019) – a memoir about sex.[11] In 2021, her Women on Top of the World: What Women Think About When They're Having Sex, written after interviewing 51 women around the world, was published.[12]

Actor

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Theatre

Dates Title Role Venue Notes Ref.
2005 The Philadelphia Story cast member Old Vic [13]
2006 Phaedra Ismene Donmar Warehouse Frank McGuiness' reworking "after Racine" [14]
2007 All About My Mother Isabel Old Vic [15]

Television and Film

Year Film Role Notes Ref.
2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) Factory Worker Episode "Sauce for the Goose" [16]
2006 Midsomer Murders (TV Series)[a] Polly Episode "Four Funerals and a Wedding" [17]
2007 Trial & Retribution (TV Series) Leanne Taylor Episode "Curriculum Vitae: Part 1" [18]
2012 ROFLMAO (Short) Susan [19]
2013 Foyle's War (TV Series) Evelyn Greene (younger) Episode "The Cage" [20]

Notes

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  1. ^ as Lucy-Anne Holmes

References

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  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. ISBN 9781783526222. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  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. ^ "50 Ways to Find a Lover". panmacmillan.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  6. ^ "The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend". panmacmillan.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  7. ^ Holmes, Lucy-Anne (29 January 2019). Unlike A Virgin. ISBN 9780748127702. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Holmes, Lucy-Anne (29 January 2019). Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy. ISBN 9780748127917. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  10. ^ "How To Start A Revolution". Penguin Books. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  11. ^ Don't Hold My Head Down. ISBN 9781783526222. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  12. ^ "Book: Women on Top of the World, edited by Lucy-Anne Holmes". Vanity Fair. 1 March 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  13. ^ Wolf, Matt (11 May 2005). "The Philadelphia Story". Variety. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  14. ^ Benedict, David (25 April 2006). "Phaedra". Variety. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  15. ^ Benedict, David (5 September 2007). "All About My Mother". Variety. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  16. ^ "Midsomer Murders Series 8 Episode 7, Sauce for the Goose". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  17. ^ "Midsomer Murders - what time is it on TV? Episode 8 Series 9 cast list and preview". 12 July 2019. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  18. ^ "Trial and Retribution XIII Curriculum Vitae (2007)". bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  19. ^ "ROFLMAO". Director Simon O'Neill's site. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  20. ^ "Foyle's War Series 8 Episode 2, The Cage". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
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