Lucy Speed
| Lucy Speed | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Lucy Renee Speed 31 August 1976 Croydon, London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse(s) | Spencer Hayler (September 2009 – present) |
| Children | 1 |
Lucy Renee Speed (born 31 August 1976) is an English actress best known for her television roles as Natalie Evans (née Price) in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, and as DS Stevie Moss in the ITV1 police drama series The Bill.
Speed is the second of two children born to Sue (née Salter) and Sid Speed, having an older brother, Dan. Her career in performing began at the age of seven after her ballet teacher saw potential and advised her parents to get her an agent. She attended a local after-school theatre group in south Croydon alongside actor Nigel Harman, whom she would later work with in EastEnders. Speed spent two terms at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
At the age of seven she modelled clothes for Kays catalogue and she went on to appear in commercials for Sunpat peanut butter, then for gas, paint, soup and the children's toy My Little Pony. By the age of eight she was acting on stage at London's National Theatre in Neap Tide, a controversial play about lesbianism and women's oppression. Speed has commented "Mum wasn't keen for me to be a child actress — she thought I'd be even more precocious than I already was… I worked constantly and I loved it."
Speed appeared in several films during her youth, which included playing the role of Josephine Stitch in the 1987 film Scoop when she was eleven. She went on to secure the role of 'young Aurora' in the film Impromptu (1991), which was about Polish pianist Frédéric Chopin and starred Hugh Grant.
Speed made an early appearance on television when she filmed at Windsor Safari Park with television presenter Johnny Morris. She went on to have roles in legal drama Rumpole of the Bailey in 1987, and later appeared in an episode of Saracen in 1989. In 1991 she starred in the award winning Dodgem alongside actor Sean Maguire.Dodgem was a six-part televised drama for children's BBC, written and adapted by Bernard Ashley. Speed played Rose Penfold, a streetwise love interest for Maguire's character, Simon; they meet at a children's home and then run away to be together.
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