Meet The Testaments actress Lucy Halliday, who won a Bafta Scotland Award for her first film role
Halliday plays Daisy in The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, alongside Elisabeth Moss who reprises her role as June Osborne
The Testaments, a sequel to the 2017 series The Handmaid’s Tale, premiered on Hulu on April 8.
Both shows are adapted from Margaret Atwood novels. The Handmaid’s Tale was first published in 1985, and its story – surrounding women surviving in a dystopian, patriarchal and totalitarian society – continues to resonate today. The book’s sequel, The Testaments, was released in 2019.
As the show premieres, we take a look at what you need to know about Halliday, as the series marks her US television debut.
She was planning to pursue medicine
Hailing from Paisley, Scotland, Halliday grew up participating in plays at her local youth theatre. The young thespian admitted in an interview with Island Magazine that despite her childhood as a theatre kid, she had never seriously considered pursuing a career in acting.