Bright Young Thing

Australian actress Lucy Fry is a girl on the rise

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There’s something quietly endearing about knowing that Lucy Fry’s early experiences of acting weren’t as the overzealous drama teacher favourite. “As a kid, I was so shy that nobody could hear me in the classroom, so my teacher at school told my parents to send me to speech and drama,” she says. While Fry’s first-ever screen appearance was on an after-school teen soap, mermaid series H2O: Just Add Water (which also starred a baby-faced Phoebe Tonkin), her breakthrough came by way of the 2014 film Vampire Academy alongside Zoey Deutch. She quickly followed those up with a role as the wife of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the James Franco-led 11.22.63, then with the TV adaptation of Wolf Creek, playing a young girl whose family is killed by a deranged psychopath in the outback.

Amid all that teeth-cutting, Fry has been “coming and going” from Los Angeles for about four years, balancing time back home (she originally hails from Brisbane) with that spent on the hamster wheel familiar to many young actresses trying to make it in Holly