Judith Mary Lucy

Judith Lucy (born Judith Mary Lucy, 25 March 1968) is an Australian comedian and actress known primarily for her stand-up comedy. In 2019 she joined the team of the ABC's The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. Lucy's adoptive parents emigrated from Ireland to Perth in the early 1950s, and she was born and raised in Perth as the sister of Australian writer and scholar Niall Lucy. She attended Curtin University, where she studied theatre, before moving to Melbourne at the age of 20. At 25 she discovered she was adopted and later made contact with her biological mother.

After arriving in Melbourne, Lucy embarked on a career as a stand-up comedian, leading to a series of one-woman shows including No Waiter I Ordered the Avocado (1991), King Of The Road (1995), The Show (1998), Colour Me Judith (2000) and Judith Lucy's Not Getting Any Younger (2009). Her 1998 comedy album King of the Road was nominated for an ARIA Award. In 2015 her solo show Ask No Questions of the Moth won the award for best live comedy at the Helpmann Awards. She also performed alongside Denise Scott in shows such as The Spiral (2013) and Disappointments (2017).

On screen, Lucy joined the cast of the live ABC TV comedy The Late Show in 1993 and co-starred with Mick Molloy in the films Crackerjack (2002) and Bad Eggs (2003). She appeared in series including Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey (2011) and Judith Lucy Is All Woman (2015), and had a small role in The Sapphires. A regular on the radio show Martin/Molloy (1995-1998), Lucy was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.