Lucy Fallon Bio
Lucy Fallon is an English actress from Cleveleys, Lancashire. She performed at the Blackpool Grand Theatre, before finding popular success playing Bethany Platt in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 2015 till present.
The role earned Lucy a widespread recognition and several accolades, including two British Soap Awards for Best Actress and Best Female Dramatic Performance, an Inside Soap Award for Best Actress in 2017, and a National Television Award for Serial Drama Performance in 2018 respectively.
In May 2019, Fallon announced that she would be leaving Coronation Street at the end of her contract in 2020 to pursue other projects.
Lucy Fallon Age
Lucy Fallon was born on 13 November 1995 in Blackpool. Fallon has two older sisters, Rachel and Laura. She grew up in Cleveleys, Lancashire. Lucy is 24 years old as of 2019. Lucy Fallon first went to Hodgson Academy and later attended the Blackpool Sixth Form College, where she achieved a Distinction Star and two Distinctions in BTEC Extended Diploma Performing Arts.
Since the age of 2, Fallon studied singing, dancing and drama at the Barbara Jackson Theatre Arts Centre; From the age of eight, she had private drama classes and studied for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art exams. For financial reasons, she declined offers from the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and ArtsEd to study musical theatre.
Prior to landing her role in Coronation Street, Fallon had several part-time jobs, including working at Subway, Next, New Look, and in a bar on the Blackpool North Pier. At the same time, she appeared as a dancer in the pantomime Sleeping Beauty at the Blackpool Grand Theatre.
Lucy Fallon Singing
Lucy Fallon
Lucy Fallon, the Coronation Street star triumphed as she tackled one of the musical theatre’s most iconic songs on a Christmas TV special. Lucy is best recognized for playing teen Bethany Platt in the ITV1 soap and has just signed a new contract on the show. She, however, showed that she could sing as well as act as she belted out Don’t Cry For MeArgentina on ITV’s All Star Musicals, saying: “I’m getting to live a dream.”
Fallon transformed into the leading lady in Evita, after being put through her musical paces by stage and screen star Michael Crawford.
He said: “I’m standing this far from her and she starts to sing and I’m absolutely mesmerized.” This is a girl we’re going to hear a lot more about.” He added
Lucy, who won Best Actress at 2017 Inside Soap Awards for her powerful portrayal of troubled Bethany, went on to win the show which saw seven celebs take on classic musical numbers in a public vote. Lucy Fallon received high praise for her singing while wearing the dress worn by Elaine Paige as Eva Peron in the first production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita.
The special, filmed at the Palladium Theatre in London’s West End in the autumn, was hosted by cricketer Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff and theatre star Michael.
Simon Duke tweeted: “Think a West End career could beckon for Lucy Fallon! Wow!” After training with seasoned theatre performers, celebs sang an iconic song from hit musicals to a live audience at the Palladium. The audience then voted for who wowed them the most.
Also singing in the special were Blackadder legend Sir Tony Robinson, actress Rebecca Front, presenter Nicky Campbell, actress, and comedian Sally Phillips, Olympian Denise Lewis, and Emmerdale actor Michael Parr.
Lucy Fallon Bethany Platt
Lucy’s first television role came in 2015 when she was cast as Bethany Platt. She Played the role of the daughter of Sarah Platt (Tina O’Brien), in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. As a returning character, Bethany had been played by child actors Mia Cookson in 2000 and twins Amy and Emily Walton from 2000 to 2007, before Fallon took over.
The actress was 19 when she was cast to play the 14-year-old Bethany. She was offered the role after it emerged that the actress who was originally chosen for the part had lied about her age.
The Guardian’s Hannah Verdier thought that Fallon was perfect for the role and that her comedic skills were a “reincarnation of Joan Rivers, only with a Mancunian accent”; however, Steven D. Wright from the same newspaper felt that she was “far too old for her part. Bethany was initially portrayed as a rebellious teenager.
Fallon described her character as “a bit of a wild child. She’s very feisty, but she does a lot of it to get a reaction.”However, as her storyline progressed, it uncovered the character’s vulnerable side.
In 2017, Bethany was at the center of a highly publicized child grooming and sexual exploitation storyline, with Fallon receiving widespread acclaim for her portrayal of an abused teenager. Barbara Ellen of The Guardian found her performance “immaculate”.
Lucy Fallon Hair
Lucy Fallon’s Hair
Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon has the most gorgeous blonde hair. While she’s rarely strayed from her sun-kissed color, she has certainly chosen some variations on her go-to look over the years.
In her role as Bethany Platt in the soap, she’s sported plenty of looks, too and as of00000 July 2018, she went for her most dramatic change yet, chopping her mane to a long bob with celebrity stylist Jay Birmingham. We reckon the gorgeous actress has rarely put a foot wrong when it comes to her locks, so we thought we’d take a look back at her all her past transformations…
Lucy Fallon Mia Cookson
Bethany Platt is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. She was born on-screen during the episode broadcast on 4 June 2000. She was played by Mia Cookson in 2000 and by twins Amy and Emily Walton from 2000 until 30 December 2007 when the character left. The character was reintroduced with Lucy Fallon taking over the role and Bethany made her return on 20 March 2015.