Lucy Forbes

Lucy Forbes

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BiographyLucy Forbes is a BAFTA winning drama and comedy director from London. Her work includes This is Going to Hurt, The End of The F***ing World Season 2 and In My Skin. Featured on the Alice Initiative's Emerging Female Directors list 2019 and amassing multiple awards for her work in just a few years of directing scripted drama, Lucy has rapidly earned international acclaim. With a background in comedy, Lucy directed a wide range of comedic talent in her early career, including Charlie Brooker, Doug Stanhope and Aisling Bea. Her narrative breakout was Kayleigh Llewellyn's IN MY SKIN, produced by Expectation for the BBC, which won Lucy the BAFTA Cymru for Best Fiction Director and picked up the RTS Best Drama Series award. Lucy also served as lead director on the second series of Charlie Covell's THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD (Clerkenwell/C4/Netflix). The series scooped the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series and Best Supporting Actress for Naomi Ackie. In 2021, Lucy directed the opening four episodes of THIS IS GOING TO HURT, based on Adam Kay's best-selling medical memoir, produced by Sister Pictures for the BBC and AMC and starring Ben Whishaw, for which Lucy won the RTS Award for Best Drama Director. Lucy most recently directed and executive produced ERIC, a 6-part series written by Abi Morgan and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Gaby Hoffman, for Sister Pictures and Netflix.

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