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Lucy Halliday is a Scottish actress from Paisley, Scotland. She first rose to prominence in 2022 after making her screen debut in the British drama Blue Jean, for which she received a British Independent Film Award nomination and won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Actress Film.^[1]

She appeared in the musical biographical film California Schemin (2025) alongside James McAvoy, before taking the co-lead role of Daisy in The Testaments (2026).

Lucy Halliday was raised in Paisley, near Glasgow in west central Scotland,^[2] where she took part in youth theatre productions with PACE Youth Theatre from a young age.^[3] Despite her early involvement in acting, she did not initially consider it a long-term career and had set those ambitions aside by the time she reached adulthood.^[4] After being accepted to study medicine, her plans changed when she came across an open casting call for Blue Jean and decided to audition.^[5][6]

Halliday's first professional audition came about after she responded to an open casting call for Georgia Oakley's debut feature Blue Jean. By her own account, she did not match the brief listed in the call but emailed the production regardless.^[7] She was cast as Lois, a secondary school student.^[1] At the 2022 British Independent Film Awards, Halliday was nominated for Best Supporting Performance, and was also included in the ensemble nomination shared by the cast.^[8][9]

At the 2023 BAFTA Scotland Awards, held in Glasgow on 19 November 2023, she won the Actress Film award for her first on-screen performance.^[10][11]

In 2025, Halliday appeared as Mary Boyd in California Schemin, a musical biographical film based on Gavin Bain's memoir of the same name. The film tells the true story of Silibil N' Brains, a rap duo from Dundee. Halliday was listed among the principal cast alongside Séamus McLean Ross and Samuel Bottomley.^[12]

Halliday starred as Daisy, one of the three central narrators of Margaret Atwood's 2019 novel The Testaments,^[13] In Hulu's television adaptation of the same name a sequel series to The Handmaid's Tale.^[14][15][16]