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Lucy DeCoutere is the last born (and tallest daughter) of a family of four. Her parents, a British child psychiatrist and a Czech born oboist/ knitting enthusiast knew from the beginning that she would amount to… something. "Whenever she was lost in the mall, we knew we would inevitably find her in front of a full-length mirror, belting out the songs from Cabaret." Well, since those humble beginnings, Lucy's love for performing has bloomed. Introduced to the stage through dance (if being a spinning top in a Grade 1 Christmas pageant really counts), Lucy did a number of productions through high school and minored in theatre in university. Immediately after graduation, Lucy traveled across the country with a theatre company for five months and started dabbling in the film industry shortly thereafter.
Lucy has held a number of 'straight' jobs, from teaching kindergarten in Korea to dealing Inuit art to copyediting and public relations, but after finishing grad school in Montreal, she is finally working in film and television production in Halifax, both in front of and behind the camera. She has just finished a production of the Vagina Monologues and is now playing around with a variety of film projects.
Lucy first encountered Mike Clattenburg at a party during a film festival a few years ago. Mike had seen a short film she had starred in and approached her about "writing a part for her" in his new movie. It wasn't until she was snuggled up with John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells in a bungalow in deepest darkest Dartmouth a few months later that she realized what a sh--storm she was suddenly involved in. The rest, as they say, is history.
"Trailer Park Boys has been awesome from start to finish. People seem to really get it, like, ladies in their sixties come up to me and say how much they think it rocks. Amazing. And I am very excited about watching the whole project evolve as we enter our third season this summer. This whole experience – phenomena, if you will – is fascinating and I'm loving the ride."
Lucy is a strict vegetarian and doesn’t drink or smoke, and when she isn’t at dance class or yoga, she chugs lattes. Lucy is a Virgo.