---
name: "Lucy Kirkwood"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lucy-kirkwood"
fi1m_id: "lucy-kirkwood"
imdb_id: "nm2990098"
tmdb_id: 1221061
wikidata_id: "Q6698397"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "1 October 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T18:52:20.446754+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lucy Kirkwood

## Identity

Lucy Kirkwood

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lucy-kirkwood
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lucy-kirkwood
- **IMDb ID:** nm2990098
- **TMDB ID:** 1221061
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6698397
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Kirkwood, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6698397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2990098/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221061

Writer and producer. Born 1 October 1983 in Leytonstone.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 1 October 1983, Leytonstone
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 writing, 1 producing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 72 (1), 2010s 88 (1), 2020s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Kirkwood, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6698397, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2990098/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221061

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Adult Material*](https://film.one/tv/adult-material.md) (76)
- **Disney+:** [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Lucy Kirkwood is a British playwright and screenwriter. She studied English literature at the University of Edinburgh and began writing plays while a student there.

She contributed episodes to the Channel 4 series *Skins* (2008–2010) and created the Sky 1 series *The Smoke* (2014). Her later television work includes the Channel 4 adaptation of her play *Chimerica* (2019) and the series *Adult Material* (2020). On stage, her plays include *Chimerica* (2013), *The Children* (2016) and *The Welkin* (2020). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, rsliterature.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Adult Material* (2020), Fi1m 76, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/adult-material.md)
- *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Succession* (2018), Fi1m 88, Executive Consultant — [page](https://film.one/tv/succession.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Welkin* (2022), Writer
- *Maryland* (2022), Director, Writer
- *Adult Material* (2020), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/adult-material.md)
- *National Theatre Live: The Welkin* (2020), Writer
- *Chimerica* (2019), series, Creator
- *Succession* (2018), series, Executive Consultant — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/succession.md)
- *National Theatre Archive: Mosquitoes* (2017), Writer
- *The Briny* (2015), Director, Writer
- *The Smoke* (2014), series, Writer, Creator
- *Skins* (2007), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2018: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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