Lucy Wigmore is an experienced stage and screen storyteller, who has worked on numerous productions across New Zealand and Australia. After graduating from Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School in 2002, she spent many years performing extensively in theatre, including playing the lead role in a successful touring production of THE WOMEN. Other highlights include developing a comedy solo show, SALON 71, and playing Helena in LOOK BACK IN ANGER, (directed by Miranda Harcourt).
In 2007, she joined the core cast of long-running New Zealand drama SHORTLAND STREET as Dr. Justine Jones, who she played for three consecutive years, before moving to London.
Whilst in the UK, she continued working in theatre, including playing Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT and developing new theatre and stage works with Tom Sainsbury, Jessica Joy Wood and Carl Dixon. She also worked as an intern at TRADEMARK FILMS with David Parfitt and Cleone Clarke and with Max Stafford-Clark at OUT OF JOINT Theatre company, alongside developing her filmmaking skills – attending courses at the SCRIPT FACTORY and the LONDON FILM ACADEMY, where she made her first short film, SIGN LANGUAGE.
Moving to Sydney, she worked with visionary director, Sarah Goodes at BELVOIR ST THEATRE, before landing a core cast role in cult Australian series, UNDERBELLY: RAZOR, as Australia’s first female police officer, Detective Lillian Armfield. She also starred in LOVE CHILD, TRICKY BUSINESS and improvised feature, THE LAND. She continued her filmmaking by studying with Robert McKee and completing short courses at AFTRS, and made another short film, STATIONERY, which premiered at Flickerfest in 2016.
Since returning to New Zealand in 2015, she has appeared on screen in WESTSIDE, A HOLE, THE BAD SEED, THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES, breakout comedy, GOOD GRIEF, Netflix’s FALLING INN LOVE and interactive Netflix film, CHOOSE LOVE.
She has also continued developing her own filmmaking work including: short films (STATIONERY, SIGN LANGUAGE, REUNITED, INTERLOAFER), a music video for Gin Wigmore (WILLING TO DIE), theatre (SALON 71, CAT & MOUSE), an award winning road safety commercial that went viral (EMBRACE LIFE) alongside other short form content.
She also works with numerous arts organisations, including as a fundraising advisor (for NZWG and Script to Screen), casting director (primarily working with Kate McGill) and programme manager of the Big Screen Symposium (2015).
She is currently developing two feature films and writing for New Zealand’s largest production house, SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES.
She holds a Bachelor of Business (Advertising/International Business), BA (Hons) International Business and a BA (Performing Arts). She speaks fluent French and lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her Scottish husband and two daughters.