Lucy Punch

Lucy Punch was born in London, United Kingdom, on December 30, 1977, into a family with Irish roots. Her parents divorced her when she was little, and she has a younger brother. Although she began university studies in her hometown, she would drop out to become an actress, a profession for which she prepared at the National Young Theater between 1993 and 1997. The following year she would debut on television, where she was based for one good season. So she was queen in The New Adventures of Robin Hood , a minor role, to have a presence in 1999 in Let Them Eat Cake , and in 2000 in the miniseries The Tenth Kingdom. His work on the small screen, which he will continue to develop until 2004, is compatible with his interpretation on stage, with works such as “The Graduate” in London’s West End.

In cinema he made his debut with a small role in Flower Power (Like a shower) , a comedy starring Helen Mirren . The truth is that her high-pitched voice, physical attractiveness and her sense of humor make her ideal for the genre, which she has repeated frequently. This has not prevented him from being in dramas like Knowing Julia , which adapts a work by W. Somerset Maugham , Call me Peter , a biopic of actor Peter Sellers , although it can be seen that in both 2004 films there is a point of comedy; In any case, her presence in these films was fleeting, there was still time for Punch to strike, so to speak.

And the coup forced her to continue on television, where she became popular in Doc Martin (2004), a series in which she played the daughter of the leading doctor, and The Class (2006), which took her to the United States. The following year she would be in another film comedy, Fatal Weapon , starring her ineffable compatriots Of Her Simon Pegg and Nick Frost ; and in one of the schools, Supercañeras. Boarding school can be a party . But they were minimal roles, the actress said that when The Class was canceled she had to go to a thousand tests, where she met “actresses who seemed like a vague version of yourself. I didn’t work for a year.” She had to agree to shoot unexciting commercials.

With everything said so far, we could say that Punch could be happy to have a job to pay for the chickpeas. And she then met the man of her dreams, cinematically speaking: Woody Allen . The New York filmmaker had thought of Nicole Kidman for the role of the coarse but showy woman with light helmets with whom the married Anthony Hopkins got involved in You Will Meet the Man of Your Dreams(2010). But the Australian could not or did not want to, and Punch inherited the role. Modesta, declared that Kidman would have done “probably better, he has won the Oscar.” In any case, Punch was active and made suggestions to Allen and Hopkins, such as putting some music in the nightclub scene, the actress assures that they both looked horrified by the obscene lyrics of the song “Put That Pussy On It”. And, more comedy, she was with Steve Carell in Dinner (2010), a failed remake of the French film Dinner for Idiots .

2011 could be the year of the takeoff of Lucy Punch. From the outset, she perfectly supports the role of Squirrel, a rival teacher of Cameron Díaz in Bad Teacher , which is to her credit because her character is tremendously unsympathetic. She’s also set to premiere A Little Bit of Heaven , opposite Kate Hudson , and Nick Cassavetes is directing her in Yellow , where she stars.