is a
Fictional Character in the popular
BBC Soap Opera ''
EastEnders ''. She is played by
Melissa Suffield .
Lucy was born on the
9 December 1993 along with her twin
Peter , to parents
Ian and
Cindy Beale . She is 12 on the show,turning 13 in December.
Ian and Cindy had already split up once before the twins' birth, when Ian found out that Lucy's older brother
Steven Beale was another man's son. It was not long after their reconciliation that the twins were conceived, however it was clear that they were not going to be one big happy family.
Although Ian was determined to make a go of marriage and brought Steven up as his own, when Lucy was three, Cindy had an affair, hired a hit man to shoot Ian and planned to run off to Italy with Steven, Peter, Lucy and her new man. Although she managed to snatch Steven and Peter, Lucy was picked up from nursery early due to illness and brought back to Ian. For almost a year Lucy was separated from her brothers before Ian kidnapped them back. Lucy was reunited with Cindy when she returned to fight for custody of all three children. Custody was granted but then Cindy was arrested for shooting Ian. She died in childbirth in prison. Lucy's half sister, named Cindy after her mum, is being brought up by her maternal aunt and grandmother.
When Ian fell in love with Melanie Healy, Lucy looked forward to the wedding and to Mel being her stepmother. Ian and Mel were going through a rough patch at the time and while Ian thought Mel no longer loved him, Lucy became ill with suspected cancer. When Lucy had some tests and they came back clear, Ian lied to Mel and told her Lucy had cancer to emotionally blackmail Mel into marriage. Ian and Mel married on New Year's Eve 1999, Mel believing that Lucy, then aged just six, was dying. As the clock struck midnight into the new millennium Mel found out the truth and left Ian.
Lucy's second stepmother, Laura, started off as her nanny. Ian and Laura's marriage survived Ian kissing Mel and sleeping with prostitute
Janine Butcher but fell apart after Ian found out Laura had had a one-night-stand with
Garry Hobbs and thought the baby Laura was carrying belonged to Garry as Ian'd had a vasectomy. Ian threw Laura out on Christmas Day 2002. Meanwhile Lucy's older brother Steven went to live with his natural father in New Zealand. With both Steven and Laura gone it made for a very unhappy Christmas and New Year in the Beale household.
Shortly after Laura's death, Ian found out Laura's baby Bobby was his son after all (the vascetomy hadn't worked properly) and Bobby came to live with Ian and the twins. Ian got together with
Jane Collins shortly afterwards. She lives with Ian but they are not married.
Jane stood up for Lucy when she was bullied by Demi Miller. Jane also calmed Ian down when he found out some boys had tried to sell Lucy and Peter drugs. Lucy found Jane's presence hard at first after having seen his previous three marriages fall apart and having got used to him as a single father to her and her brothers. She rebelled and made friends with the much older
Stacey Slater , who led her astray by lying and stealing, but they are no longer friends.
Lucy has just started senior school. After initially struggling to accept Jane, Lucy has now bonded with her and they get on very well.
When Ian wanted
Gus Smith 's dog,
Wellard , to be put down, Lucy, Peter and Jane were on Wellard's side and Lucy even bought a 'Save Wellard' T-shirt. After a court case ordered that Wellard be returned to Gus, Ian's family bought a puppy and called him Chips. They said he was a present for Ian.
In 2006, Ian heard that his mother - who lived in South Africa with Ian's half-brother Ben - had died in a car crash. Ian went to South Africa to see Ben and in March 2006, Lucy's uncle Ben (who is two years younger than Lucy) moved in with the family. The arrival of Ben has caused tension in Ian and Jane's relationship as Jane believes that Ben's dad Phil should be allowed access to Ben while Ian believes he should not. On Easter Friday 2006, Lucy informed Ian that Ben had run away. He was later found and returned to Ian, although Phil is now seeing Ben.
Jane has now slept with Phil's brother, Grant Mitchell, althogh neither Ian or the children know this.
- Lucy and Peter Beale were born the same day their paternal grandfather Pete Beale died. Peter is named after him.
- Lucy has blonde hair and brown eyes
- Lucy's father Ian's half brother Ben was born in 1995, making Ben younger than her and Peter, his nephew and niece!
- Lucy is a Westlife fan (in the episode where Demi Miller stole her money, she had the money to buy a Westlife mobile phone cover.)
- Casey Anne Rothery played Lucy from when she was 3 months-10 years of age before Melissa Suffield took over in 2004. Melissa is nearly a year older than Lucy.
- Ironically, less than a year after being bullied by Darren and Demi Miller, Darren and Peter are close friends and Lucy and Demi have been shown walking to school together and talking happily. No storyline explaining this change in circumstance has been shown.
- Lucy went from becoming a rebel, hanging out with Stacey Slater and hating Jane, to liking Jane and settling down again. Very few episodes have shown her changing and why and none have shown how she now gets along with Stacey, after they fell out.
- : Kids, we need to talk...'''Lucy''': Are we going to get told off?
- Daddy, how are babies made?
- : I've asked Jane to move in with me'''Lucy''' Jane : I hope you said no!
- I do like Jane, it's just... what's the point of getting to know her? I mean Laura, Mel, Mum... they've all gone.
- You and Jane are splitting up... you always split up with them... you let us get close and then they leave, dad... don't think we've forgotten about Laura... you chucked her out Christmas Day and then you made us sit there and eat turkey.
- The important part isn't the winning. It's the taking part and having fun '''Ian''': Who told you that? '''Lucy''': Well...you did!
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