Lucy Punch

About Lucy Punch

Lucy Punch (born December 30, 1977) is an English film, stage and television actress. Her feature film credits include "Hot Fuzz", "Bad Teacher"," You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger", Dinner for "Schmucks", and "Into the Woods".

Lucy Punch was born Lucy Alice Punch on December 30, 1977 in Hammersmith, London England. Her parents run a market research company. Punch was educated privately at Godolphin School and then Latymer Upper School. She performed with the National Youth Theatre from 1993 to 1997 and began a course at University College London before dropping out to become an actress.

Since 2006 Punch has lived in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States.

Punch made her debut in a 1998 episode of The New Adventures of Robin Hood. Her other TV credits include the naive daughter of Alison Steadman's character in the short-lived series Let Them Eat Cake which starred French and Saunders. She starred as a football player in the kids TV show Renford Rejects. In 2000 she made her stage debut as Elaine in Terry Johnson's West End adaptation of The Graduate. She has also worked at the Royal Court and Bush theatres, both in London.

In 2004 Punch played the cheeky, kooky receptionist, Elaine Denham, in the television show Doc Martin. 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 for her performance in Are You Ready For Love?.

Punch starred in Woody Allen's 2010 film You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, having replaced Nicole Kidman. In August 2010 she appeared in BBC Two's three-part police comedy-drama Vexed alongside Toby Stephens. In 2011 Punch starred alongside Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake in Jake Kasdan's Bad Teacher.

Punch was cast as Deena Pilgrim, the female lead in the TV pilot Powers for the FX channel, but the role was recast.

In 2002 to 2005 Punch was in a relationship with James D’Arcy after they met during filming of the TV film Come Together. She began a relationship with artist Dinos Chapman, in 2014 in Los Angeles. With Chapman she gave birth to her first child, a son, in 2015. They had another son about six years later.