Lucy Punch is an English actress. Her credits include the television shows Doc Martin

Doc Martin

Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson and Dominic Minghella. The show is filmed on location in the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, United Kingdom, with filming of most interior scenes...

and The Class, and the films Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz

Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action dark comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced...

and Bad Teacher

Bad Teacher

Bad Teacher is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan based on a screenplay by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and starring Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, and Jason Segel...

.

Life and career

Born in Hammersmith

Hammersmith

Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...

, London

London

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, Punch performed with the National Youth Theatre

National Youth Theatre

The National Youth Theatre is a registered charity in London, Great Britain, committed to creative, personal and social development of young people through the medium of creative arts....

 from 1993 to 1997, and began a course at University College London

University College London

University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

 before dropping out to become an actress.

Punch made her debut in a 1998 episode of The New Adventures of Robin Hood

The New Adventures of Robin Hood

The New Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1997-1998 live action TV series on Turner Network Television. It was filmed in Vilnius, Lithuania and produced and distributed by Dune Productions, M6, and Warner Bros. International. The tone of the series resembled its contemporaries Hercules: The Legendary...

. Her other TV credits include the naive daughter of Alison Steadman

Alison Steadman

Alison Steadman OBE is an English actress. She established her career with roles such as Beverley in Abigail's Party and Candice Marie in Nuts in May for the director Mike Leigh, to whom she was once married. In addition to her stage and radio work, she has had lead roles in The Singing Detective,...

's character in the short-lived French and Saunders

French and Saunders

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act....

 series, Let Them Eat Cake

Let Them Eat Cake

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation to English of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread...

. She starred as a football player in the kids TV show Renford Rejects

Renford Rejects

Renford Rejects was a teen sitcom produced and broadcast by Nickelodeon UK between 1998 and 2001. The show briefly aired in the United States on Nick GaS....

.

In 2000, she made her stage debut as Elaine in Terry Johnson

Terry Johnson (dramatist)

Terry Johnson is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte...

's West End

West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...

 adaptation of The Graduate

The Graduate

The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama motion picture directed by Mike Nichols. It is based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay was by Buck Henry, who makes a cameo appearance as a hotel clerk, and Calder...

. She has also worked at the Royal Court

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...

 and Bush Theatre

Bush Theatre

The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house by Brian McDermott, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. An intimate venue renowned for its close-up...

s, both in London.

She left the television show The Class after appearing in all but one of the first 12 episodes.

In 2006, she won the best actress award at the Monaco International Film Festival

Monaco International Film Festival

The Monaco International Film Festival, one of the premiere European film festivals, is an annual international special interest film festival held in Monaco. It is a non-profit organization, formed in December 2003. The festival focuses on Non-Violent films, screening productions from around the...

 for her performance in Are You Ready For Love?

Are You Ready for Love?

This article refers to the film. For the Elton John song see Are You Ready for LoveAre You Ready For Love? is a British romantic comedy feature film, directed by Helen M Grace, produced by Carnaby Films, 2006.- Plot :...

.

Punch starred in Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

's 2010 film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 English-language Spanish-American co-production comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It features Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts, Roger Ashton-Griffiths and Pauline...

, having replaced Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an American-born Australian actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel, and humanitarian. After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, Kidman's breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm...

. In August 2010, she appeared in BBC Two

BBC Two

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's three part police comedy-drama Vexed

Vexed (TV series)

Vexed is a comedy-drama, police procedural television series for BBC Two. Created and written by Howard Overman, the series stars Lucy Punch as D.I. Kate Bishop and Toby Stephens as D.I. Jack Armstrong, a detective duo with a fractious relationship. Jack is lazy and disorganised but charming...

alongside Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens is an English stage, television and film actor who has appeared in films in both Hollywood and Bollywood. He is best known for playing megavillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film Die Another Day , Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of Jane Eyre and Philip...

.

In 2011, Punch starred alongside Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress and former model. She became famous during the 1990s with roles in the movies The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary. Other high-profile credits include the two Charlie's Angels films, voicing the character Princess Fiona...

 and Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician and actor. He achieved early fame when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate JC Chasez...

 in Jake Kasdan

Jake Kasdan

Jake Kasdan is an American television and film director.Kasdan was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Meg , a writer, and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan. His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer...

's Bad Teacher

Bad Teacher

Bad Teacher is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan based on a screenplay by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and starring Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, and Jason Segel...

.

Punch has been cast as Deena Pilgrim, the female lead in the TV pilot Powers

Powers (FX TV series)

Powers is an FX Network American television adaptation of the Powers comic book series that has finished shooting and is expected to begin airing in 2012.-Cast:* Jason Patric as Christian Walker* Lucy Punch as Deena Pilgrim* Charles S...

for the FX

FX

- Entertainment :* FX , an international cable/satellite television network * F/X, a movie set in the world of special effects* F/X: The Series, a television program based on the movie...

 channel. The pilot will be based on the popular comic book series of the same name

Powers (comics)

Powers is an American creator-owned police procedural comic book series by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming. The series' first volume was published by Image Comics from 2000 to 2004...

.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1998	The New Adventures of Robin Hood The New Adventures of Robin Hood The New Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1997-1998 live action TV series on Turner Network Television. It was filmed in Vilnius, Lithuania and produced and distributed by Dune Productions, M6, and Warner Bros. International. The tone of the series resembled its contemporaries Hercules: The Legendary...	Queen Stephanie	TV movie (1 episode: "Orphans")
1999	Renford Rejects Renford Rejects Renford Rejects was a teen sitcom produced and broadcast by Nickelodeon UK between 1998 and 2001. The show briefly aired in the United States on Nick GaS....	Sue White	TV series (13 episodes)
	Days Like These Days Like These Days Like These is a British TV series remake of the popular American sitcom That '70s Show. Directed by Bob Spiers, it was broadcast Fridays at 8.30pm on ITV in 1999 and used many of the same names , or slight alterations . It was set in Dunstable, Bedfordshire...	Helen Foreman	TV series (2 episodes)
	Let Them Eat Cake Let Them Eat Cake (TV series) Let Them Eat Cake is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 1999. Starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, it is one of the few programmes in which French and Saunders have appeared which they did not create themselves.-Plot:...	Eveline	TV series (4 episodes)
	Big Bad World	Melissa	TV series (4 episodes: 1999–2001)
2000	Cinderella Cinderella (2000 TV film) Cinderella is a TV film released on January 1, 2000 in the UKand directed by Beeban Kidron. The cast is led by movie legend Kathleen Turner who plays the Wicked Stepmother Claudette...	Regan	TV movie
	The 10th Kingdom The 10th Kingdom The 10th Kingdom is an American epic fantasy miniseries written by Simon Moore and produced by Britain's Carnival Films, Germany's Babelsberg Film und Fernsehen, and the USA's Hallmark Entertainment...	Sally Peep	TV series (3 episodes)
	Greenfingers Greenfingers Greenfingers is a 2000 British comedy film directed and written by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on a true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England.-Cast:...	Holly
2001	It's Not Me, It's You	Rose
	People Like Us People Like Us People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer...	Kate	TV series (1 episode: "The Actor")
	Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...	Melissa Townsend	TV series (1 episode: "Tainted Fruit")
	Goodbye, Mr Steadman	Linda Mortimer	TV movie
2002	Come Together	Amy	TV movie
	I Saw You	Esther	TV series (1 episode: "Episode 1.1")
2003	Second Nature	Car Rental Girl	TV movie
	Dinotopia Dinotopia (TV miniseries) Dinotopia is a four-hour TV miniseries co-produced by Walt Disney Television and Hallmark Entertainment. It is based on the fictional world of Dinotopia, a utopia in which sentient dinosaurs and humans coexist, created by American author James Gurney...	Shayna	TV series (1 episode: "Night of the Wartosa")
2004	Ella Enchanted Ella Enchanted (film) Ella Enchanted is a 2004 British-American romantic-comedy film loosely based on Gail Carson Levine's 1997 novel of the same name. The film stars Anne Hathaway as Ella and Hugh Dancy as Prince Charmont. It plays with the usual fairy-tale genre...	Hattie
	My Family	Sarah	TV series (1 episode: "Luck Be a Lady Tonight")
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers The Life and Death of Peter Sellers The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 film about the life of English comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis' book of the same name...	Lead Stewardess
	Being Julia Being Julia Being Julia is a 2004 drama film with comic undertones directed by István Szabó and starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on the 1937 novel Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham...	Avice Crichton
	Doc Martin Doc Martin Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Mark Crowdy, Craig Ferguson and Dominic Minghella. The show is filmed on location in the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, United Kingdom, with filming of most interior scenes...	Elaine Denham	TV series (6 episodes)
2005	Festival	Nicky Romanowski
	Survivors	Juliet Savage	TV series (1 episode: "In Deep Water")
2006	Agatha Christie: Poirot	Susannah Henderson	TV series (1 episode: "After the Funeral")
	Are You Ready For Love?	Melanie	Monaco International Film Festival – Angel Award for Best Actress
	Stingray	Lucy
2007	Two Families	Irene	TV movie
	The Class	Holly Ellenbogen	TV series (13 episodes)
	Hot Fuzz Hot Fuzz Hot Fuzz is a 2007 British action dark comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three had previously worked together on the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead as well as the television series Spaced...	Eve Draper
	Grindhouse	Blonde in 'Don't' Trailer	uncredited
	Comedy Showcase: Ladies and Gentlemen Comedy Showcase Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much earlier Comedy Playhouse....	Alice	TV pilot
	The Sarah Silverman Program The Sarah Silverman Program The Sarah Silverman Program is an American television series that starred comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, who created the series with Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab...	Sally	TV series (1 episode: "Ah, Men")
	The Omid Djalili Show The Omid Djalili Show The Omid Djalili Show was a British sketch comedy/stand-up comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. Writing by Omid Djalili, Will Smith, Roger Drew, Ian Stone, Ricky Grover with script editor Steve Punt...	Miss Fanny Dashett	TV series ("Episode 1.2")
	St. Trinian's	Verity Thwaites
2008	1%	Candace	TV movie
	Fairytales	Fenola Gay	TV series (1 episode: "Cinderella")
	Wainy Days Wainy Days Wainy Days is an internet video series starring David Wain that is hosted on the website, My Damn Channel. It is currently running in its fourth season. The web series follows a fictionalized version of Wain through his everyday life as he tries to form relationships with numerous women and...	Angel	Internet series (1 episode: "Angel")
2009	Big Breaks	Alexis
	(Untitled)	The Clarinet
2010	Elektra Luxx Elektra Luxx Elektra Luxx is a 2010 comedy film directed and written by Sebastian Gutierrez featuring Carla Gugino. The film is a sequel to the ensemble comedy, Women in Trouble. The film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival 2010, and was released to the rest of the country on March 11, 2011...
	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 English-language Spanish-American co-production comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It features Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts, Roger Ashton-Griffiths and Pauline...	Charmaine
	Dinner For Schmucks Dinner for Schmucks Dinner for Schmucks, a 2010 screwball comedy film, is the American adaptation of the French film Le Dîner de Cons , being described by the director as "inspired by" the original rather than a remake of it...	Darla
	Vexed Vexed (TV series) Vexed is a comedy-drama, police procedural television series for BBC Two. Created and written by Howard Overman, the series stars Lucy Punch as D.I. Kate Bishop and Toby Stephens as D.I. Jack Armstrong, a detective duo with a fractious relationship. Jack is lazy and disorganised but charming...	DI Kate Bishop	TV series (3 episodes)
2011	A Little Bit of Heaven A Little Bit of Heaven (2011 film) A Little Bit of Heaven is a 2011 romantic comedy film directed by Nicole Kassell and starring Kate Hudson and Gael García Bernal.- Plot :...	Sarah Walker
	Take Me Home Tonight	Shelly
	Bad Teacher Bad Teacher Bad Teacher is a 2011 comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan based on a screenplay by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and starring Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, and Jason Segel...	Amy Squirrel
	A Good Old Fashioned Orgy	Kate
2012	Cottage Country	Masha	filming
	The Giant Mechanical Man The Giant Mechanical Man -Plot:The film tells the story of a street performer , and a zoo worker that falls for him.-Cast:*Jenna Fischer as Janice*Chris Messina as Tim*Topher Grace as Doug, a pompous motivational speaker...	Pauline	completed
	Powers Powers (FX TV series) Powers is an FX Network American television adaptation of the Powers comic book series that has finished shooting and is expected to begin airing in 2012.-Cast:* Jason Patric as Christian Walker* Lucy Punch as Deena Pilgrim* Charles S...	Deena Pilgrim	post-production
	The Wedding Video		filming
	Yellow	Amanda	post-production

Theatre

Year	Production	Role	Venue	Notes
2000	The Graduate	Elaine	Gielgud Theatre
2001	Boy Gets Girl	Harriet	Royal Court Theatre
2002	A Carpet, A Pony and A Monkey	Kate	Bush Theatre

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