Lucy Fry Embraces the New York Accent

“I never thought I’d get to play an Italian mobster’s daughter,” says Lucy Fry over a cup of mint tea at the Nomad Hotel in New York. “Being from Australia, it was really fun to transform into this sassy Italian girl from Harlem in the Sixties.” The sweet 27-year-old actress, who grew up in Brisbane but currently lives in L.A. and is eyeing a possible move to New York in the future, stars in the new TV series “The Godfather of Harlem” for Epix opposite Vincent D’Onofrio and Forest Whitaker. The show serves as a prelude to “American Gangster,” and follows the conflict between crime boss Bumpy Johnson and the Genovese mob family during the Sixties. Fry plays the fictional daughter of real Genovese boss Vincent Gigante, who is involved in a forbidden love dynamic with a black jazz singer. “[Stella] and Teddy are the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ of the story. They’re a bridge between the past and the future, and between the Italian gang and the African American gang,” she says. “They’re trying to find a way to be together in a world that won’t accept them.” She credits her seasoned screen partners — including D’Onofrio — for helping her navigate her

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