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, for which the BBC recognised her as one of its 100 women in 2014. She lives in Hertfordshire with her partner and son. She grew up a Catholic and is now a Quaker.
Holmes has authored several books: 50 Ways to Find a Lover (Pan, 2009); The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend (Pan, 2010); Unlike A Virgin (Sphere, 2011); Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Boy (Sphere, 2014), winner of the Romantic Novelists Association 'Rom Com of the Year 2015'; 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; and Don't Hold My Head Down (Unbound, 2019) – a memoir about sex. 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.
Actor Theatre
Dates Title Role Venue Notes 2005 The Philadelphia Story cast member Old Vic 2006 Phaedra Ismene Donmar Warehouse Frank McGuiness' reworking "after Racine" 2007 All About My Mother Isabel Old Vic
Television and Film
Year Film Role Notes 2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) Factory Worker Episode "Sauce for the Goose" 2006 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) Polly Episode "Four Funerals and a Wedding" 2007 Trial & Retribution (TV Series) Leanne Taylor Episode "Curriculum Vitae: Part 1" 2012 ROFLMAO (Short) Susan 2013 Foyle's War (TV Series) Evelyn Greene (younger) Episode "The Cage"
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External links
2019 interview in The Friend 2015 interview in Huffington Post 2015 interview on Woman's Hour Lucy-Ann Holmes in The Guardian Lucy-Ann Holmes at Jo Unwin Literary Agency