Lucy Speed

Lucy Renee Speed is an English actress best known for her television roles as Natalie Evans in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, and as DS Stevie Moss in the ITV1 police drama series The Bill.

Speed is the second of two children born to Sue and Sid Speed, having an older brother, Dan. Her career in performing began at the age of seven after her ballet teacher saw potential and advised her parents to get her an agent. She attended a local afterschool theatre group in south Croydon alongside actor Nigel Harman, whom she would later work with in EastEnders. Speed spent two terms at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.

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