Nicôle Lecky is a British actress, singer and writer. She is best known for her 2018 play Superhoe and its 2022 TV-series adaption Mood.

Lecky (born 1990^[1][2]) grew up in Stratford, East London.^[3] She is English-Jamaican and has siblings.^[4][5] Her father was an electrician and former DJ, and her mother a mental-health nurse. Lecky studied for a time at King's College London, but graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. At age 18, she was signed by a theatrical agent.^[6][7][8] Her mother died when Lecky was 19.^[9]

Lecky has written for the soap opera EastEnders: E20, and her acting roles include the TV-series Casualty, Fresh Meat, Sense8 and Death in Paradise. She directed The Moor Girl, a short film.^[1][10][11]

Her 2018 play Superhoe was a collaboration between the Talawa Theatre Company and the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Jade Lewis. Lecky wrote and performed the monodrama,^[1][12] and collaborated with British rapper The Last Skeptik on the play's music.^[4][13] Superhoe follows the life of twenty-four year-old Sasha, and Lecky plays several characters.^[14] She was inspired by a website that posted personal information on Instagram women involved in sex work.^[6] Playwright Levi David Addai, who mentored Lecky around 2019, said in 2020 that she is "one of the most talented young writers, actresses, singer-songwriters in the country right now."^[10]

Superhoe received positive reviews. The Evening Standard's reviewer said "[Lecky is] a revelation — singing and rapping eloquently as she delivers a knotty, occasionally grim story with charismatic fluency."^[1] The Daily Telegraph's reviewer said "It stands squarely in the tradition of Royal Court writing while being its own fresh thing."^[4] WhatsOnStage.com's reviewer said "She knows how to keep the audience on her side with just a backward glance, and her comic timing is superb."^[14] The Guardian's reviewer said "Lecky engagingly performs her own writing ... Though rarely surprising, it's a simple story strongly told".^[13] Stylist's reviewer said "...be sure to remember Nicôle Lecky. She’s a star slash genius."^[15]

The BBC decided to adapt Superhoe as a TV-series, and the six part musical drama Mood premiered in 2022 on BBC Three. Lecky played the main character Sasha Clayton, was a series executive producer and writer, and was also involved in creating the music. The characters are those she performed in the play.^[6][7][16] As part of her script-writing, she interviewed women involved in sex work online.^[7][17] As of 2024, Mood has a 100% score on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on five reviews.^[18] Shortly after the premiere of Mood, Lecky was signed by the United Talent Agency (UTA).^[19]

She has written a second drama for the BBC, which as of 2023 is untitled.^[20][21] She is part of the cast of the comedy drama Sweetpea, planned to be released in 2024.^[22][23]

Lecky was nominated for a Best Writer Stage Debut Award in 2019 for Superhoe.^[24] She won the Women in Film and TV Awards' The Netflix New Talent Award in 2022.^[25]

Mood won two BAFTA awards, Best Mini-Series and Best Original Music: Fiction. Lecky was also nominated in a third category, Best Emerging Talent: Fiction. Accepting the mini-series award, she said "For me to be here, a working class, mixed, Black woman stood here I'm just really proud of that and I hope it really does inspire the next generation of storytellers."^[26][9] For Mood, she also received a Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award, Music - Original Score, and was nominated for a Royal Television Society Programme Breakthrough Award.^[27][28]

As of 2022, she lives in London.^[3]

• Lecky, Nicôle (2019). Superhoe. Nick Hern Books. ISBN 978-1-84842-838-6.