About
Australian comedian, actress, writer, and television personality known for her stand-up comedy career and for television projects such as Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey, Judith Lucy Is All Woman, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, Disappointments, Overwhelmed and Dying, and Overwhelmed and Living.
Before fame
She attended Curtin University in Perth where she studied theatre and arts before eventually moving to Melbourne, Victoria when she was 20 years old to pursue a career in performance and comedy. She rose to prominence in the 1990s Australian comedy scene through successful solo stage shows such as No Waiter I Ordered the Avocado in 1991, King of the Road in 1995, An Impossible Dream in 1996, The Show in 1998, The Show 2 in 1999, Colour Me Judith in 2000, and I'm Going to Learn How to Fly in 2001. Her career expanded into television in the 2010s with major documentary-style comedy series. She created and starred in Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey in 2013 which explored religion and belief around the world. She followed it with Judith Lucy Is All Woman in 2015 which was a documentary comedy series examining feminism and gender issues. She also became a regular panelist on the Australian news-comedy program The Weekly with Charlie Pickering in 2019.
Trivia
She won the 2006 Age Critics Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for her show I Failed! She won the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer in 2015 for her show Ask No Questions of the Moth. She co-created the stage show Disappointments which became one of the biggest comedy hits of the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and won the People's Choice Award. She has also launched podcast projects including Overwhelmed and Dying and Overwhelmed and Living. She is the author of the memoir The Lucy Family Alphabet and the book Drink, Smoke, Pass Out. She once considered becoming a nun while growing up in a Catholic household.
Family life
She was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She was raised by her adoptive parents Anne and Tony Lucy. She had a close relationship with her brother Niall Lucy who passed away in 2014.
Associated with
She collaborated with fellow Australian comedian Denise Scott on creating the stage show Disappointments.
