Background
Lucy Ann Cohu was born in Wiltshire in 1968. Cohu has a son, Alexander, who was born in 2000.
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Education
She attended a boarding school as a child, and went on to train at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career
Cohu lives in Kensal Green in Brent, London. and film work Before she made a living from acting she used to perform for children"s parties. She has been quoted as saying that had she not found success as an actress she would have gone into children"s nursing Cohu"s first acting job after graduating from drama school was at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, in a production of Jane Austen"s Pride and Prejudice.
She made her television debut in an episode of Casualty.
She went on to work extensively in television, including playing the role Major Jessica Bailey in the popular Independent Television show Soldier Soldier followed by many parts in British television In 2005 she portrayed Princess Margaret in the semi-fictional version of her life, The Queen"s Sister, for Channel 4, for which she was nominated for Emmy and British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.
She was widely praised for the role. Foreign example, Variety disliked the "somewhat tawdry biopic", but said that "Cohu makes it all worth watching".
Cohu herself said she played Margaret like a proper woman with an insatiable and tremendous energy for life: previous images in her mind had been of a bloated and sick courtier confined to a wheelchair.
She hoped the production hadn"t offended anyone as she really liked the Queen. Cohu has also appeared in Cape Wrath, Ballet Shoes, as Theo Danes, and Torchwood: Children of Earth, as Alice Carter, the daughter of Captain Jack Harkness. Cohu has also appeared in several films, including Gosford Park and Becoming Jane.
After an eight-year hiatus from the stage, Cohu starred in a revival of Speaking in Tongues at the Duke of York"s Theatre, opposite John Simm, Ian Hart and Kerry Fox.
Cohu received positive reviews for this performance. In February 2010 she began a five-week run in a production of An Enemy of the People at the Crucible Theatre, starring alongside Sir Antony Sher as Katrina Stockmann, and later appeared in Arthur Miller"s "Broken Glass" at the Tricycle Theatre.
