British actress Lucy Gordon, probably best known for her role as reporter Jennifer Dugan in Spider-Man 3, was found dead in her Paris apartment yesterday — two days shy of her 29th birthday. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the actress committed suicide while her boyfriend slept.
Gordon’s father released the following statement:
The whole family is so proud of Lucy, and we always have been. We have loved her so much throughout her life. We called her Lucy because she was the light of mine, her mum Sue’s, and her sister Katie’s lives. Lucy was a lovely, generous and unselfish person who always gave so much thought to other people and put them before herself. Mr Gordon said Lucy had been acting since she was a toddler.
Acting was what she had always wanted to do. She had been acting since the age of two, which was really as soon as she could walk. She’s always loved being on stage and in front of the camera and she has kept all her naturalness and charm all the way through. Her career had been just taking off, and it’s a tragedy that it has been cut short so soon.
The death has come completely out of the blue. Everything about how she died is just speculation at the minute, and we want to concentrate on paying tribute to our daughter.
She has been the most beautiful daughter. We are obviously devastated.
In addition to Spider-Man 3, Lucy also appeared in Frost, Serendipity and a biopic about the life of Serge Gainsbourg (which screened to positive reviews this week in Cannes).
Wow… I don’t know who she was, but I absolutely hate hearing about suicides. I hope she found the peace she was looking for. :(
Aww! That is so sad!
So sad. RIP Lucy.
It’s a great shame, poor Lucy. may God comfort her family at this time.
Very sad and surprised to hear about her death. I saw her in her early movies and was very much impressed with her acting abilities. It is rare for abilities such as hers to take you completly away while watching the movie. Maybe she was depressed and no one picked up on it. I see she is a Gemini and so am I; therefore I can relate to those type feelings of impulse sometimes. My brother died the same way around the same age. It is so hard for the family to lose someone suddenly and especially by their own choice. You can never get over the guilt, really. It has been fifteen years now for me and I think about my brother’s choice and how I didn’t stop him, almost everyday. So sad.
I hope she found the peace she seeks.
Wow. I wonder what could have possibly been going on in her life to want to do something like this. I wish we could have helped her in time. I wish we could have helped her SO MUCH.
Did you know her personally? If not, how could “we” have helped her? She probably would not have given you the time of day when she was alive.
that is one of the stupidest comments I’ve ever read here.
we’re all connected in this world HELLO?!? just b/c she’s a celebrity doesn’t mean she’s not a fragile human being on the inside.
How could you have helped her? Her family and boyfriend couldn’t. Do you have magical powers?
It’s a bigger fuckin picture than what you’re seeing. Open your eyes! We’re all connected somehow. One good deed by you to someone else translates into one good deed done by that person. That person then turns that into a good deed for someone else. Kindness is contagious. Love is contagious. When we show snippets of love to people around us it carries on, makes the world a better place through tiny steps in the right direction.
I met this guy a little while ago, my science teacher, the one I really really want to have sex with (don’t know if you’ve read my recent comments on EB about it), but this guy just spews out love. He literally reeks of kindness. He puts everyone EVERYONE around him up and makes them feel good about themselves no matter who they are. I have no idea how he is so magically good, but he is and after I hang out with him, I want to pass that love on to as many people as I encounter. It’s breathlessly inspirational. He is single and that love that would have been aimed at one person is now shared by everyone who meets him. That’s why I comment so much on here about people being dumb and coupling up and having kids and I how I think it makes this place so much worse. Instead of loving one another, loving all 3.7 billion beings on this planet, everyone is so insecure and wants to make themselves feel good by locking up with someone who seems like they care about them. And people use children to make themselves feel good b/c even tho they may feel worthless and really are stupid idiots, some rugrat needing them to change a diaper makes them feel important and all of a sudden they boast about how great they are and contribute to society when all they’re really doing is overpopulating the world b/c they don’t have anything better to do. So many people are scared to bond with other fellow adults, scared to be vulnerable, scared to open up, and they get into these subunit orientations where they care about their lover and kids and fuc* anyone else outside that circle. And the reason they’re scared, the reason people get into these subunit orientations is because there’s not enough love that goes around. People don’t want to open themselves up if they think they’ll be hurt or unloved. If we show kindness in our every day lives, if everyone does it, it’ll be a safer place for everyone to live in where emotions won’t be as painfully squashed as they are now. We won’t have suicides b/c people will have many other connections with people to bring them out of it. If someone hurts you, it’s not as big of a deal b/c that just a tiny percentage of where you’re overall emotional health and happiness comes from.
It’s so much bigger than what you’re seeing it, wow.
What an unbelievably monstrous thing to do to her boyfriend. He had to find what was possibly the worst thing you can find, hanging victims look horrifying. She may have been unhappy but she scarred him for the rest of his life, and that was beyond the pale. Any pity I might have felt for her quickly evaporated.
he’s probably a prick who treated her bad. that’s why she hung herself for him to find
i hear that, jinxy. one of my buddies found his father dead & hanging 5 years ago & that friend of mine will never ever be the same. there’s no looking at the bright side when something like this happens to a loved one, whereas when grandma passes, “oh it’ll be OK, she’s in a better place.”
tragic…
um yeah…sorry that this person who must have been so extremely low in her life that she wanted to give up the greatest gift ever given to her- life, dare bother someone on her way out. gawd you guys are sick
i agree. that’s one of the reasons i never killed myself when i was suicidal. i could never do that to anyone in my family. any time i thought about how i would do it, it always ended the same: someone i love finding me dead.
A tragic loss of life at such a young age! And i do not know how people can feel anger at her for what she has done, as you should feel only pity. To say her boyfriend was a prick without knowing anything about him, or the reasons why it happend is very sad indeed.. who are you to pass judgment on people you have never met?
my condolences go out to her friends and family, and may she now rest amongst the angels!
Whenever I read of such appalling tragedies, like a previous poster, I genuinely wish there’s something I (we) could have done to summon her back from the edge. Of course, it’s not realistic; what it is is an outburst of spontaneous compassion.
I’ve suffered mental illness since childhood. I know depression’s ‘black dog’ only too well. I sometimes describe it as inhabiting a Clive Barker movie inside your mind. I don’t claim she had to be nuts to do what she did, but under the circumstances it sure passes the ‘duck test’.
Why did I, from a loveless, disordered home rife with mentally ill adults and alcoholics, somehow resist 20+ years of death wishes, while Lucy did not?
I must agree with those who condemned her chosen means and place of exit. Pardon me if I’m crude, but when suicide was often on my mind, I had a rigid rule of death decorum, if you will: Don’t leave a mess. Lucy wasn’t pretty when her bf awoke. The woman he’d made love to was then grotesque hanging meat. I, too, imagine he will never expunge that nightmare from his head, even with shock therapy.
I pity him. And I wonder how someone apparently so loving and gentle could chose such a brutish means to kill themselves. Nothing he’d done (she WAS there by choice, not chains) could deserve what she did to him …. and everyone else for that matter.
Who was it? James Dean? Who said, ‘Live fast, die young, and leave a comely corpse?’ I’m sorry her torment blinded her to the basics of ‘death decorum’.
So bright (at least outside) and beautiful, gifted, accomplished in the art she was born to, living in ‘the City of Light’, fluent in French, with a bf who may have loved her … and only 28. Why? I have longed throughout a long life for these same things and not achieved them. Yet I have trudged on, praying for better days. What was so evil that she could not sustain its presence in her?
I am a devotee of John Dunne’s writing. He is the one who said, (loosely recalled) that ‘Noone is an island, separate from the main; but each of us is part of the continent, a portion of the whole … so never ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.’
Farewell, Fair Lucy, our world is less for losing you. May Eternity please you better than Life ever could.
I read on a news site (forgot which one,sorry) that she was very upset and depresssed because of the recent suicide of a close friend in London.
The neighbors said they heard the couple arguing the night before.
I knew a young woman (18 student) who lived with her father.. he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, knowing full well she would be the one to find him. Well she did find him, about three days after he did it, it was summer time and he was nice enough to have turned of the ac before he shot himself. The reason it took three days, she went to visit his ex-girlfriend and see her four year old half sister, the couples special needs daughter. Suicide is the most selfish, hateful thing a person can do to their family, because they are left wondering what they could have done and always blaming themselves.
this is a shock to death for me, i mean i have been keeping details and updates about this beaituful actress and now its nothing.
I have always appreciated her and her acting skills
She will be remembered always .
i really was disturbed by this, it happens so much with celebs.
why such a radical choice while you just take off in respect and adoration.
is it th pressure..?hen step out..and go enjoy whatever makes you hapy..
it is the loss of peace and satisfaction that pushes you to such limit i guess. if that isn’t the truth what does that means what the family responds on this happening.
if she was so loved by her close relatives then she had a save haven or am i mistaken.
was it the boyfriend who said something and did something because if you’re really happy you don’t take this decision.
i hope it wasn’t drugs or ties to mobsters which pushed her this far.
anyways, it’s a loss, every life that’s been rent away this way is.
I think she must have reached such a dark place in her mind that she could not see a way out. She was not in her right mind when she chose to kill herself…I think she saw no hope in sight….ever.. immense depression with no way out….
I hope it wasn’t her boyfriend being mean to her that triggered this…
I hope he loved her…
Lots of women don’t get the love and respect and honour they deserve from a guy.. I don’t know anything about him, but I hope he was one of the good guys and not messing her around…
Shame she couldn’t talk to her family…she must have been really down not to think of a way out…
sad especially when on the surface it looks like she had everything going for her…
r.i.p god bless
such a sad thing to hear. I dont like to hear such stories of tragedy.
Sometimes people who are so depressed and troubled feel like there is no bright side and never will be.
Some people do things on a whim, that they might not do at another time. Perhaps she hit that point whilst awake and alone one night, and decided to do it just then and there.
Damn right it sux. Dns every action there is a consequential reaction. But who am i to make that choice for them. I think of the people around me, some closer than others, who have succeeded in doing (and badly attempted) similar things, and it saddens me even more as those memories resurface.
It cant be pretty being the one who discovers the lifeless body like that. It is still a shock to hear it when it happens (even if it seemed like a matter of time with some of those ppl).
Only those there will know the real reason. Only she knows what was going thru her mind. Without placing blame or judgement on the boyfriend in situations that noone here has first hand knowledge of, all the rest is speculation.
Some people are experts at covering up their real feelings, particularly when so deeply disturbing. Actors or not, it can be hard to tell sometimes what is going on inside the enigma. And depression can be a beast.
I will always love her
I met her briefly before and was in her house and I’m in such shock. I just cannot believe it. I didn’t know she was well known as an actress but I was so struck by her beauty. I just can’t believe she was moved to suicide.. It’s horrible. I really feel for her boyfriend, I met him too and he was NOT a prick, he was friendly and funny and generous. My condolences go out to those who knew her.
what really disturbes me are so many of the comments….. a lady chose to end her life. clearly she was in a disturbed state and suffering some sort of mental distress. It has been proven that males are far more likely to take their own lives than women. Therefore I can only presume that Lucy Gordon had been extremely depressed or disturbed by something before committing the obviously premedditated act of suicide. To suggest that her partner/boyfriend was the cause is horrendous. With or Without arguments or disagreements in her relationship, for someone to commit suicide is stemming from a far more deprooted issue than this.
The news said that she was very depressed because a friend recently committed suicide. Somehow, I find that hard to understand – why would she want to die because her friend died? I understand that her depression could have made her lose her desire to live, I have been there and life becomes meaningless, with no hope or way out, no exits out of the despair you are feeling. The incident of her friend dying must have changed how she felt about this world. When a person kills themselves all they can think about is ending the pain they are feeling, nothing else. They are not thinking about how it will effect others. That pain is so bad, they only want it to end.
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