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Lucy-Anne Holmes

British author, actor and campaigner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

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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]
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2005Midsomer Murders (TV Series)Factory WorkerEpisode "Sauce for the Goose"[16]
2006Midsomer Murders (TV Series)[a]PollyEpisode "Four Funerals and a Wedding"[17]
2007Trial & Retribution (TV Series)Leanne TaylorEpisode "Curriculum Vitae: Part 1"[18]
2012ROFLMAO (Short)Susan[19]
2013Foyle's War (TV Series)Evelyn Greene (younger)Episode "The Cage"[20]
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  1. as Lucy-Anne Holmes

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