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 was a Catholic growing up 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]
- 2007 Trial & Retribution (TV Series) – Curriculum Vitae: Part 1 (2007) as Leanne Taylor [10]
- 2012 ROFLMAO (Short) as Susan[11]
- 2013 Foyle's War (TV Series), The Cage, as Evelyn Greene (younger)[12]
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
- ^ Parkinson, Justin (2015-01-20). "How Page Three fell out of step with the times". Archived from the original on 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
- ^ "Who are the 100 Women 2014?". BBC. Archived from the original on 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
- ^ Don't Hold My Head Down Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine unbound.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ Hardy, Rebecca (2019-04-04). "I would like to… make life kinder, freer and more respectful for the women coming after me". The Friend. Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
- ^ Wolf, Matt (2005-05-11). "The Philadelphia Story". Variety. Archived from the original on 2019-07-16. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
- ^ Benedict, David (2006-04-25). "Phaedra". Variety. Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
- ^ Benedict, David (2007-09-05). "All About My Mother". Variety. Archived from the original on 2019-07-16. Retrieved 2019-07-16.
- ^ Midsomer Murders Series 9 Episode 8, Four Funerals and a Wedding Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine Radio Times radiotimes.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ Midsomer Murders Series 8 Episode 7, Sauce for the Goose Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine Radio Times radiotimes.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ Trial and Retribution XIII Curriculum Vitae (2007) Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ ROFLMAO Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine Director Simon O'Neill's site. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ Foyle' War Series 8 Episode 2, The Cage Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine Radio Times radiotimes.com Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ 50 Ways to Find a Lover Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine panmacmillan.com, Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine panmacmillan.com, Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ Unlike A Virgin Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine littlebrown.co.uk Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ Shaffi, Sarah (2015-03-17). "Stirling's Struck is Romantic Novel of the Year". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2019-04-17. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
- ^ Just a Girl, Standing in Front of a Boy Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine littlebrown.co.uk Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ How To Start A Revolution Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine Penguin Books Retrieved 12 July 2019
- ^ Don't Hold My Head Down Archived 2019-07-12 at the Wayback Machine unbound.com. Retrieved 12 July 2019
External links
Articles by Lucy-Ann Holmes
- I wanted to explore my own pleasure' – how I rebooted my sex life Article in The Guardian, 18 May 2019.
- If you want to write about feminism online, be ready to take on the haters Article in The Guardian, 1 April 2015.
Other Links
- Lucy-Ann Holmes at Jo Unwin Literary Agency
- 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
- “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.
- Interview by Rebecca Hardy The Friend, 4 April 2019
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