Lucy Gaskell

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|birth_place = Wigan, Greater Manchester, England

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|years_active = 2002–present

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Lucy Gaskell (born 10 July 1980) is a British actress. She studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1998.

Career

Gaskell made her professional stage debut in the Oxford Stage Company's production of The Cherry Orchard which toured the UK in June/July 2003. Gaskell was nominated for the Best Newcomer 2003 award by the Royal Television Society for her role in Cutting It.

Gaskell is known for the roles of Ruby Ferris in the BBC One drama series Cutting It and Kirsty Clements in Casualty. She has also appeared in television and in theatre in numerous roles including Waking the Dead, Holby City, and Where the Heart Is. Other roles include Kathy Costello Nightingale in the 2007 Doctor Who episode "Blink" and Judy in Lesbian Vampire Killers. In 2010 she began a recurring role in the BBC horror drama Being Human as Sam, the love interest of main character George. From 2010 to 2011, she starred in Casualty, playing nurse Kirsty Clements, starring alongside schoolfriend Georgia Taylor, who plays Dr Ruth Winters. When she joined Casualty, she said in interviews that she was contracted indefinitely, but her pregnancy meant that she left after only one year.

Personal life

Gaskell has been married to actor Mark Bonnar since 28 December 2007. They have two children: Martha, born July 2011, and Samuel, born June 2015.{{cite news |url=http://www.sundaypost.com/fp/mark-bonnar-on-upcoming-drama-unforgotten-and-stepping-into-the-shoes-of-a-legend-for-porridge-remake/ |title=Mark Bonnar on Unforgotten and stepping into the shoes of a legend for Porridge remake |first=Bill |last=Gibb |newspaper=The Sunday Post |date=11 January 2017}}

Gaskell has been an ambassador for the domestic violence survivors' charity Women's Aid since 2015.{{cite web |title=Patrons and Ambassadors |url=https://www.womensaid.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are/patrons-and-ambassadors/ |publisher=Women's Aid |access-date=12 January 2024 |quote=joined us in 2015}}

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

rowspan="2"|2006

|{{sortname|The|Last Drop}}

|Benitta

Rolling the Dice: Adapting the Game to the Screen

|Herself

|Video Documentary Short

2009

|Lesbian Vampire Killers

|Judy

2015

|All the Ordinary Angels

|Mimi

2018

|Final Score

|Rachel

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

rowspan="3"|2002

|Where the Heart Is

|Jeanette Bryant

|rowspan="3"|1 Episode

Holby City

|Joanne Townsend

RI:SE

|Herself

2002–04

|Cutting It

|Ruby Ferris

|18 Episodes

rowspan="3"|2004

|From Bard to Verse

|rowspan="2"|Herself

|Unknown

GMTV

|1 Episode

Waking the Dead

|Fay Harding

|Episode: "Shadowplay"

2005

|Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God

|Ormaline

|Television Movie

rowspan="2"|2006

|Vincent

|Dawn Rice

|Episode: "Under Fire"

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

|Constantia

|Episode: "Constantine"

rowspan="5"|2007

|Nuclear Secrets

|Genia Peierls

|Episode: "Superspy"

Director's Debut

|Eve Warner

|rowspan="1"|1 episode

Doctor Who

|Kathy Nightingale

|Episode: "Blink"

Blue Murder

|Gunner Tracey Ruff

|Episode: "Crisis Management"

Sarah Parish's Story: Director's Debut

|Herself

|Television Movie Documentary

2008

|HolbyBlue

|Anna

|rowspan="2"|1 Episode

rowspan="2"|2009

|Paradox

|Katie

Whatever It Takes

|Fiona

|Television Movie

rowspan="2"|2010

|Coming Up

|Hayley

|1 Episode

Being Human

|Sam

|4 Episodes

2010–11

|Casualty

|Kirsty Clements

|45 Episodes

2012

|Misfits

|Lola

|3 Episodes

rowspan="2"|2013

|Great Night Out

|Mandy

|2 Episodes

Crossing Lines

|Fox

|1 Episode

2015

|Suspects

|Natalie Grainger

|Episode: "Connections"

2016

|DCI Banks

|Rachel Li

|Episode: "A Little Bit of Heart"

2017

|Ransom

|Aunt Gina

|1 Episode

= Video games =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

2010

|Fable III

|Additional Voices (Voice)

Theatre

The Big House (Lennox Robinson) 2007 – Abbey Theatre, Dublin – Kate Alcock
Taking Stock (Rob Johnstone) 2005 – The Studio, Manchester
The Lunatic Queen (Torben Betts) 2005 – Riverside Studios, London – Princess Juana
All the Ordinary Angels (Nick Leather) 2005 – Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre – Lulu
Portugal (Zoltán Egressy) 2004 Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre London – Ribbon
The Cherry Orchard 2003 Oxford Stage Company national tour – Dunyasha