Lucy DeCoutere Biography
Lucy DeCoutere is a Canadian actress and Royal Canadian Air Force officer. She is famously known for her role as the character Lucy in the television series Trailer Park Boys. In 2005, DeCoutere won a Gemini Award for her role in Trailer Park Boys.
She attended grad school at Concordia University in Montreal. Lucy is not only good at being an actor. She has held several jobs besides acting. Previously, she was a kindergarten teacher in South Korea. She even attended teachers college at Griffith University in Australia.
DeCoutere appeared in The Vagina Monologues. Her voice has also been used on the computer game Empress of the Deep – The Darkest Secret. In April 2016, she announced on her twitter handle that she will no longer feature in the Trailer Park Boys.
This happened after co-star Mike Smith was arrested for assaulting a woman. Besides her acting career, DeCoutere is a Captain in the Royal Canadian Air Force. She is presently based in Ontario. Currently, she is a Training Development Officer.
Lucy DeCoutere Age
Lucy DeCoutere was born in Edmonton, Canada. She was born on 5th September 1970. Her current age is 48 years old as of 2018.
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Lucy DeCoutere Net Worth
Lucy DeCoutere is a popular actress. Her main source of income is from her acting career. She has featured in various films and television shows. Her major role was in the film Trailer Park Boys.
This contributed greatly in boosting her net worth. She has also received various awards. For instance, she was awarded the Gemini Award in 2005.
Her current net worth stands at $ 500,000. We will update you on further new information once they arise.
Lucy DeCoutere Ghomeshi
In October 2014, Lucy DeCoutere joined seven anonymous women in publicly alleging sexual assault by former CBC Radio personality Jian Ghomeshi. She was the first to publicly identify herself. Ghomeshi was charged with sexual assault and choking. However, she was acquitted of all charges at the trial involving DeCoutere, with the judge expressing doubt of the witnesses’ testimonies.
Lucy DeCoutere 2001
Since 2001 Lucy DeCoutere has starred in the series Trailer Park Boys as Lucy. She has also starred in other films. They include: The Hanging Garden, Beefcake, Trailer Park Boys, The Event, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day, and Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It.
Lucy DeCoutere Leaves Tpb
The famous actress Lucy DeCoutere resigned from the television show “Trailer Park Boys”. She announced this on twitter and confirmed that her resignation was related the the arrest of co-star Mike Smith.
Mike was arrested based on allegations of assaulting a woman. She however insists she remains friends with the cast and crew of the show despite saying her departure was linked to the arrest of a co-star in the United Stated of America.
DeCoutere has become a well-known figure across the country after testifying against former CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi at his sexual assault trial.
After news of Smith’s arrest surfaced, DeCoutere tweeted: “If I find out that somebody is abusive, I cut them out of my life”. That was when she announced she was leaving the show.
Lucy DeCoutere Movies And TV Shows | Lucy DeCoutere Trailer Park Boys
2014 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It
2009 The Gospel According to the Blues
2009 Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
2008Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys
2006Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
2006 Anniversary Present
2004Trailer Park Boys Christmas Special
2003Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion
2003The Event
1998 Beefcake
1997 The Hanging Garden
Lucy DeCoutere Interview
Q: Let’s go through your experience of the trial. You were called to testify on Thursday, February 4, 2016. Going into the courtroom for the first time, were you scared?
Lucy DeCoutere: I’ve never been more scared of anything in my life. Before I walked in, I was like, “Can somebody please find me a wobbly stool and a piece of rope and I’ll be good.” But that waned as soon as I got in and looked at everybody and thought, “It doesn’t matter how I feel.”
Q: And how did you feel right before Marie Henein began her cross-examination? [Henein, Ghomeshi’s high-profile Toronto defence attorney, is known for her pointed style of questioning.]
Lucy DeCoutere: I thought beforehand, if Henein is going to be a shark, I’m going to be a jellyfish, because you can’t catch a jellyfish. Not that I didn’t want to be caught, I just wanted to present solid. I don’t know if you noticed, but there were a lot of press there. The reactions were being tracked. When people weren’t talking, all you could hear was typing.
Q: Oh, I know.
Lucy DeCoutere: It was nuts. I hadn’t understood how thoroughly you and a couple of other people were offering very detailed transcriptions in real time. It allowed people to see how things were going and watch things spectacularly fall apart.
Q: You feel they spectacularly fell apart?
Lucy DeCoutere: There is no “feel.” You were there.
Q: Gillian didn’t prep you on Henein’s strategies?
Lucy DeCoutere: No, because I don’t think she’d seen them. I was told that [Henein] would pace around.
Q: You could hear her shoes in court, amidst all the typing.
Lucy DeCoutere: I couldn’t hear them — I could feel them. On my heart. I was surprised she was huffy.
Q: Like she was annoyed?
Lucy DeCoutere: I don’t think she was legit annoyed. But she feigned incredulity. The whole looking over her glasses thing. I feel like a lot of that was performance.
Q: How did you feel when Henein had you read those damning lines from the email and the letter aloud?
Lucy DeCoutere: After I read, “I want to fuck your brains out,” there was an audible gasp, and it was like “Okay, take it easy people. I’m aware of how [badly] this is going.” I’m not as random as I sometimes present. I wrote that for a reason. But I don’t remember [what it was].
Q: Did she succeed in making you feel shame?
Lucy DeCoutere: One hundred percent. I’ve never felt so bad about being myself than I do now.
Q: As the face of this trial and an advocate for coming forward about sexual assault, did you feel added pressure?
Lucy DeCoutere: Not pressure — responsibility. After I testified, I felt like I had to go up to every person in the world and apologize for ruining the case.
Q: How do you feel about Ghomeshi now?
Lucy DeCoutere: I don’t see Jian as an enemy. What [Henein] was saying about how I hate him — I’m like, that’s not accurate. I did have a couple of moments of weakness when I was hearing story after story after story of him really causing damage, allegedly, to women across North America: People are not allowed to cast that wide of a net of unkindness [and get away with it]. No.
Q: What made you waive a publication ban on your name and become the public face of this trial?
Lucy DeCoutere: I was hoping that by very publicly going to the police, other people would follow suit. Around this time was the whole Rehtaeh Parsons publication ban bullshit [Parsons was a 17-year-old Nova Scotia girl who killed herself after being sexually assaulted at a party and then bullied about it at her high school. Her name was posthumously covered by a publication ban when the two men pleaded guilty to distributing photos of her assault, as is customary in sexual assault cases and in cases involving a minor.] She was dead. She died because she couldn’t handle the stress of having been assaulted and ridiculed for having been raped. And I was like, “I’m not going to turn into Rehtaeh Parsons for this. I will remain public.”
Q: You said you’ve had trouble sleeping since the trial wrapped. What’s bothering you?
Lucy DeCoutere: Marie [Henein]’s adeptness at evisceration — I’m damp with it. She was able to instill in me a feeling of self-loathing. And, um, I guess I gave her that power. But I have to find a way to not feel this bad about something that, in the end, was a moment.
Q: Would you do it all again?
Lucy DeCoutere: I didn’t know what I was in for. If anyone really thinks that I’ve ruined [sexual assault] reporting for women, I’m terribly sorry. And if anybody really thinks I’m clamouring for fame on the back of women who were assaulted, that’s terrible. Would I do it again? I will never have to know that answer. Do I regret it? No. Was it too expensive? Yes.
Q: Expensive?
Lucy DeCoutere: Personally, emotionally, psychically. I’ve lost a lot of my sunshine, although my sense of humour is on fleek for sure. I’m definitely funnier now. And if anyone crosses me I correct them much more sharply and compassionately.
Q: So what now?
Lucy DeCoutere: I can’t live with this the way it is right now. There has to be something positive which comes from this. When I first went into this experience, it was like “Get Jian to stop hurting people.” Then my focus changed. Instead of dwelling — as I will do, on what happened personally — there’s got to be a better way to fix the system. Maybe we can use this awful opportunity to make a bit more of an even playing field.
SOURCE: www.chatelaine.com ( condensed and edited)