Lucy Ryan

📽 FORTY-TWO 🎬 This alternate WWII sci-fi, thrillesque feature film is out now on Amazon Prime to rent or buy, and I'm in it! 👀 They are small and fleeting roles, but see if you can spot me as an alt-nurse and a patient?! It wouldn't have happened without the Director, Writer, and Producer @eric.i.steele whose imagination, resourcefulness, work ethic, and ability to surprise never cease to amaze me! Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me to be a part of your vision that's now a magnificent reality! Huge Congratulations to @vamooseproductions & @fortytwofilm for producing such a thrilling independent film on a minute budget. Well worth the three years of gritty determination that went into it 👏 Congrats to the wonderfully talented Cast & Crew 🤩 Especially a few I trained with, including but not limited to @damonspillane 🌟 @laurenjadeacting 💫 @sebastian__derby ⭐️ @mattykidelis 🌟 And Editor extradinaire @laurapetrie_96 🎞 Now it's down to you, the viewer, to see what could've happened if the Nazis won the war.... Link in my bio 🔗 Lucy x #indiefilm #featurefilm2025 #FORTY-TWO #britishfilm #lowbudgethighquality

💫 CREATE AWARDS 2025 💫 I don't think it's sunk in yet...it still seems massively overwhelming and surreal that I won 🏆 The Dean's Award 🏆 @uos_artsmedia Create Awards last week! 🫢 I was bowled over by how incredible all the nominees for all the Awards categories were! Therefore, to be alongside them (some I'm lucky enough to call my good friends) was really humbling! 🥹 It was such a fun, inspiring, and emotive evening! 🥰 Thank you to my fantastic tutors for nominating me, to the judging panel for seeing something in me, that I've not necessarily seen in myself during the past three years, to my "little" brother for coming along to capture the most improvised speech of my life on video (to embarrass me forever more 😜), and to the organisers for creating such a wonderful event! Our presenters were phenomenal, and I was especially excited to have @kiri_pritchard_mclean on my table even ifit did mean she got to see me try not to drop food down myself& get to chat to @vkhawkesworth , whom I love listening to on the radio 📻 Last but not least, Thank You to my friends & family for your unwavering support throughout my university degree 👩‍🎓 Being able to do what I do outside of my course just wouldn't be possible without you all 😘 👗 Dress: Agata @aga.designs 💇‍♀️ Hair: Bex @maisalonuk 💄 The Rest: my parents, the NHS, et moi 😉 Official photos to follow 📸 #createawards2025

🇬🇧 WTG 2025: 4 x 100m Female Relay 🇩🇪 I know I'm a little out of sync with the spectacular events at the WTG. But I had to showcase our heat of the 4x100m female relay. None of us sprint as our main event, and we only participate in the relay once every year or two if we're needed to make up the team. Therefore, I was bricking it! Our aims were to: 1. Not drop the baton. 2. Not fall over. 3. Give the camera operator a run for their money 😋 I think it's safe to say we stormed all three 😉 We're Lane 8 (outside lane). I'm leg 2! You can hear a pin drop in the stadium before the sprints begin 📍🏃‍♀️ I was genuinely confused when Millie passed me the baton as I couldn't see anyone behind her. She gave us such a fantastic start. Tia made her leg look so easy, and our awesome Team GB Athletics Captain Charlotte sealed the deal 🇬🇧🏅 We came 1st in our timed heat and had the 3rd fastest time overall with 66.21 secs. However, because our amazing Great Britain A-Team had aced their race with a time of 56.94 seconds, they won gold, meaning GB couldn't medal twice! But I couldn't be more chuffed with my brilliant team: 🏃‍♀️@_.millie._ 🏃‍♀️@noswam_ait 🏃‍♀️@charlottedouglasx Thank you for believing in us and putting such a fab team together, Charlotte ❤️ #wtg2025 #worldtransplantgames2025 #thankyou #transplantathlete #teamgb🇬🇧 #girlpower #femaleempowerment

33 years ago today a total stranger saved my life. There aren't enough words to express my gratitude ❤️❤️ Thanks to my miraculous Heart Transplant I'm still here alive & kicking thirty-three years on ✍️🏼 Of course, there have been hiccups along the way as transplants are a treatment not a cure. Despite this I've been able to live life to the full. My past few Transplant anniversaries are testament to this (the corresponding photos are numbered in brackets). 2026 (Photos 1-3): 33 Years TODAY - I visited where my radical Transplant took place all those years ago 'Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children' @greatormondst 🥰 Lovely having the opportunity reminiscence. Funny seeing sights through an adult instead of a child's eyes. Sadly I am now too old for the local play park 😂 yet never too old to indulge in some Peter Pan 😝 2025 (Photo 4): 32 Years - I was under the gaze of the camera 📽 instead of a live audience acting in 'SCREAM QUEEN' 😱🎬 2024 (Photo 5): 31 Years - I was on stage in a public performance at my uni, giving matriarch vibes 🎭 2023 (Photo 6): 30 Years - I celebrated 30th ❤️ Transplant Anniversary, halfway across the world in Aus, competing in my 1st ever World Transplant Games 😍 Even bringing home a medal for Team GB 🇬🇧🥈🇦🇺 I'm forever grateful to the incredible medical teams who performed magic all those years ago & to my adult hospital @royalpapworth who keeping me tick tocking along and not forgetting my family and friends 😇 As you might know the current organ donation system is the Opt Out (deemed consent) where your next of kin are consulted about your wishes. However, did you know you can still 'Opt In'? This is actually incredibly helpful, especially for family's where they never had that chat about donation. As let's be honest, it's not exactly the most cheerful topic, yet still important. So if you haven't yet, this might be a good excuse as any to share your wishes. I've popped a 🔗 in my bio & today's story to a bit more information about becoming a donor & how to talk to your loved ones about it. Thank You! Lucy ❤️❤️ #transplantssavelives #shareyourwishes #gratefulheart #becomeadonorsav

💫 SALISBURY ROTARY CLUB 💫 Last month, between medical appointments, I managed 48 hrs in Wiltshire 🎉 Where amongst other things I had the absolute joy of speaking at SALISBURY ROTARY CLUB about my World Transplant Games journey 🇬🇧🌎 And what a delightful distinguished bunch of people! Thank you for your hospitality and being so welcoming & encouraging 🥰 The cherry on the top was bumping into one of my former @studio_theatre board treaders: Peter! ...Last time we saw each other Peter was a Bishop & I was trying not to get my knickers in a Twist as a Vicar 😜 Here's a snapshot of my 2 days in Wiltshire 📸 1. Salisbury Rotary Club chair: Alan Corkhill and I! 2. @salisburyrotaryclub (who were one of my lovely sponsors at last year's WTG!) 😇 3. More of the lovely SRC & I 🫶 4. Peter & I ☺️ 5. Throwback to 11 years ago to your local Bishop... 6. ...And Vicar ⛪️ 7. Medical appts with a view 🌸 8. Voice  Acting 🎙 9. Meetings 📝 10. Refreshments at one of my fave independent cafes in Salisbury ☕️ 11. Viewing the magnificent spire! 🌙 Lucy ❤️ #iykyk #actorslife🎬 #worldtransplantgames #teamgb🇬🇧 #wiltshirewanderings

🌊 A F T E R T H E F L O O D 🌊 It was pure joy working on series 2 of ITVs 'After the Flood' last April during my Easter hols. Blink and you literally miss me in my foxy groundworker gear, but I don't mind one jot! As it was such a joy to work with such a lurverly cast & crew, in such a gorgeous location (thankfully the graffiti did come off 😉). The icing on the cake was enjoying beautiful windswept walks across the moors on my way home 🌄 Check out my fellow SAs brave enough to keep still on that🪜 take after take! And Thank You to one of the loveliest women on and off screen @stephdewhalley for coming out of your trailer to check in as I grabbed a ☕️ every morning 😘 I cannot recommend this programme enough if you love a gritty, crime, thriller! 🕵‍♀️ Excellent acting, superb script writing, and fantastic filming 🎥 So go check it out on ITVX or Prime Video. 🔗 in my bio 💜

🎇 2025 🎆 As this year and quarter of a century comes to a close & another begins, I thought I'd reflect on the year that was and blimey what a year!?... 🥶 January 🥶 1. Was all about watching films you'd featured in 👀 🌱 FEBRUARY 🌿 2. All about film auditions for ones you'd like to feature in 📽 3. And headshots! 📸 🌺 MEGA March 🏵 So mad it needed four photos to itself... 4 & 5. All about giving Closing Speeches at Biannual Plenary Congresses 😁 6. Recovering from a sickness bug just in time to perform in an Agent Showcase 👩‍🎤😅 7. Running for President of the SU...as you do 🏃‍♀️ ❤️ APRIL ❤️ 8. All about acting in that film you auditioned for. 9. Plus filming on location 🌄 ♉️ MAY ♉️ 10. Was all about finishing my degree & new jobs 😭🥳 11 & 12. And the SU & Work Awards🏆 🌻 JUNE 🌻 12. Was all about the Create Awards 🏆✌️ 🥵 JULY 🥵 13. Was all about graduating 👩‍🎓🎓 🌞 AUGUST 🌞 Was another manic month taking up three crackers... 14. The British Transplant Games in Oxford 🚶‍♀️🇬🇧 15 & 16. The World Transplant Games 🏃‍♀️🇩🇪 & moving house 📦🏠 🍁 SEPTEMBER 🍂 17. All about slowing down & catching up with friends & family 🧡🫶🧡 🎃 OCTOBER 👻 18. All about recovering and trips to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ❄️ NOVEMBER ☃️ 19. All about finishing my mini tour of the UK & voice acting 🎙 🇬🇧 🤶 DECEMBER 🎄 20. Was all about celebrating friends & family and feeding my love of theatre 🎭 Thank you to Everyone who made this year so magic ✨️ Happy New Year 😍 Lucy x

🇬🇧 WTG 2025 – DAY 8 / THE FINAL DAY 🇩🇪 Yep… I’ve finally sorted the photos from Sat 23rd August: the Final Day of the World Transplant Games 2025 😭 After the frantic but fantastic Friday, I was officially frazzled. Having recently been diagnosed as neurospicy, it wasn’t a huge surprise that after such an exciting & overstimulating day, I awoke with all the spices in full force. Add in my other chronic health conditions flaring up & I was feeling far from 💯. I even considered skipping my last event, the Ball Throw. But I knew the disappointment would hit harder than the exhaustion,and the Ball Throw is always such a fun and sociable event. By midday, I was trackside warming up. Huge thanks to liz for keeping us all on the same page with the rules; my rudimentary German definitely doesn’t extend to “Ball Throw Regulations 101.” Women from all over the world were in our group, and I’m so grateful to have been surrounded by such a lovely, funny, supportive bunch: everyone clapping and cheering each other on, no matter which team they're participating for. 😍 By 2:20 p.m., we’d only just finished the first round 🫣 and the Closing Ceremony was starting in the main stadium in ten minutes. I legged it over there and grabbed some lunch, which I was still eating between throws when I returned for the final round at 3 pm. Honestly, I was shocked to have made it into the final as Ball Throw is not my forte. Suddenly, everyone was saying, “I want what she had!” Clearly, my lunch had some magic ingredients because my throws came on in leaps and bounds 😂 I even secured a competition PB of 24.5m! 🎉 I was happy to finish a respectable 6th, no match for the fantabulous women casually smashing it out of the park with 40m+ 🙌 Despite the overwhelm as the enormity of the WTG and getting soaked on my walk back, I was determined to make some of the Gala Dinner. I didn’t want to miss celebrating everyone’s hard graft and achievements or the chance to say Goodbye to my teammates 🇬🇧 And finally…THANK YOU to everyone who supported me, my generous sponsors, our wonderful German hosts, the tremendous Team GB, and last, but certainly not least, my donor! ❤️

🇬🇧 WTG 2025 - DAY 7 / Frantic Friday continued 🇩🇪 I meant to share in yesterday's post some of the fantastic Powerwalk action shots that Roger Douglas captured - Thank You! 🥰 Goele had to head straight to her next event, so it was a couple of hours before we had the Powerwalk medal ceremony. 🥇🥈🥉 Afterwards, I saw our incredible Team GB physio team, including the magic Sheila 💆‍♀️ I was finally leaving the stadium to head back to my accommodation for a late lunch to fuel up and recharge ahead of the relay scheduled for 21:35!! When I got a text from one of our Athletics Captains to say that due to not everyone registering for the 100m sprint prelims that morning, I was now in the 100m final! 😮 Cue a quick turnaround: I hot-footed it back, refuelled quickly, ready for the 17:45, 100m Final call time 🏃‍♀️ Huge Thanks to my wonderful teammate @karen.hodgson.332 for capturing moments from the final 😍 I definitely stood out — the only sprinting from a standing position rather than blocks! (Since I hadn’t been able to train with them as much this year, that was the safest call.) With the likes of the incredible Liesolotte, I was happy to come a respectable 6th out of 8 - beating my WTG23 sprint time 🎉 Afterwards, it was straight back to the physio team for a sports massage, so I could cope with the B-Team Women’s 4x100m relay. As I mentioned in an earlier post — we were bricking it! Things got even more dramatic when we realised that we all needed matching tops. Mine didn’t match…but our quick-thinking Team GB Athletics @charlottedouglasx came to the rescue with a spare (without having to strip another teammate)! The atmosphere was electric, and you could've heard a pin drop as the stadium hushed for it 👀 We were ecstatic to WIN our heat with a time of 66.21 secs and come 🥉 3RD 🥉 overall with our A-Team, acing it with an amazing 55.94 secs 🙌 I arrived back at my accommodation at 11 p.m., exhausted but buzzing in awe of the fact that everyone I competed with today had a life-saving transplant! ❤️ #TeamGB🇬🇧 #wtg2025🇩🇪 #transplantathlete #transplantssavelives

🇬🇧 WTG 2025 - DAYS 6 & 7 🇩🇪 As promised, more WTG25 spam has arrived 🫣 But with the main events of the World Transplant Games alongside some bling arriving, you'll hopefully enjoy the read... 🩵 THURSDAY 🩵 Thursday was an athletics training day at the glorious Heinz Steyer stadium 🏟 A great opportunity to become familiar with venues ahead of Frantic Friday 🤪 On Friday, I was due to compete in my main event, the 💥 3km Powerwalk 💥 at 9 am. However, I was also due to be at a different location competing in the 100m sprint prelims at exactly the same time. Therefore, it was decided that the only thing to do was ask the officials if I could somehow do both in the call-room on Friday morning. Then, depending on what they said, potentially compete in the: 🚶‍♀️Female 3km Powerwalk 👟 Female 100m Sprint prelims 🏃‍♀️ Female 100m Sprint Final 🎽 Female 4 x 100m Women's Relay 🧡 FRIDAY - THE POWERWALK 🧡 I arrived at the stadium, warmed up at 8:30 am. After speaking to the officials unsurprisingly, they advised that I'd have to forfeit either the 100m sprint prelims or the Powewalk. As I knew it was slim, I'd get into 100m finals, and my main event is the Powerwalk. I said I'd do that. I was gutted that I couldn't compete in both events, but as fast as I can walk, I can't be in two places at once 😔 At the Powerwalk, I had a grand start and was feeling pretty good. However, the wind down the back straight might've felt lovely, yet it wasn't ideal for a competition. I was no match for reigning champ in my age category (30-39yrs) @goelemeex , who retained her 🥇 title. @miggie2perth secured 🥈 I came in a plucky 🥉 AND 11th Fastest Female Transplantee Powerwalker in the world 🌎🎉 What I was even more delighted about was the fact that Goele & Miggie are fellow ❤️ sisters. Therefore,although we weren't first overall in the race , we are the current 🏆 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (in my case) Fastest Female Heart-Transplantee Powewalkers in the World 🏆 ..Not too shabby for your thirties 🙌 The icing on the cake was when Miggie told me she'd trained for two years to beat me, and boy did that training pay off! She stormed ahead of me 🤩 #TeamGB🇬🇧

🇬🇧 WTG 2025: DAY 5 - CULTURAL EVENING 🇩🇪 💙 WEDNESDAY 💙 Wednesday was one of optional Athletics training days. As I was feeling pretty shattered, I decided to listen to my body and enjoy a lazy morning, prior to exploring some of beautiful city of Dresden in the fantastic summer sun ☀️ Before heading back for the event that's my personal highlihht of the WTG...the Cultural Night (Beach Party) ⛱️ This event is a great opportunity for competitors to mingle. They're invited to attend in their nations dress and enjoy an evening of food, fun, and flag swapping (yep, we swapped flag pins 📌 😁). This was the perfect opportunity to wear my tailor-made dress by fellow @uos_artsmedia grad Agata Ksiazkowska 👩‍🎓 This was hosted at Saxonys' largest Beach Club by the River Elbe. And what a cool venue it was 🏖 I had a fab time letting my hair down (as I wasn't competing the following day) with my fellow teammates and meeting inspiring athletes from across the 🌎 I finished the evening playing street chess in the local square as it was still that warm! Although I couldn't speak much German, you don't need to when you play chess. Safe to say as the King of Dresden Chess Giorg wiped the floor with me, but still came to watch the Athletics on the Friday where, thankfully, I performed slightly better ♟️😅 👗 @aga.designs #wtg2025 #WTGGermany2025🇩🇪 #dresdencity #TeamGB🇬🇧 #transplantathlete #culturalevening

🇬🇧 WTG 2025 - Dresden 🇩🇪 So it's been a minute (achem three months) since the World Transplant Games in Germany. And following moving house, the lurgy, and life generally life-ing I've FINALLY begun sifting through my heap of photos. Sorry /not sorry in advance for all the drip-fed WTG spam incoming. I decided to pick up where I left off doing each day of the rest of the magic week in chronological order. Starting with... 💜 MONDAY 💜 This was a much-needed recharge day! My top priority: food shopping (since everything was closed on Sunday). Cue me ravenously deciphering German menus & feeling like I'd just won the lucky dip if I'd ordered something I liked 😂 Germany’s Aldi? Like the UK’s, but on steroids. 🛒💪 ❤️ TUESDAY ❤️ Tuesday involved catching up on games prep, exploring Dresden, having my comp nails done 💅, and a lurverly meal with some of my Royal Papworth Teammates 😍 Good food, great company, gorgeous weather, and grand surroundings. 🥰 What more could you ask for?! #TeamGB🇬🇧 #WTG2025🇩🇪 #dresden🇩🇪❤️ #Teammates #transplantathletes #thankyou❤