Zoe Lucker is a popular English actress, who was born on 11 April 1974 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. She is one of the four children of Paul and Judith Lucker. Her parents spent a year and a half in Zambia doing voluntary service, before becoming school teachers in Yorkshire. Later, they started their own business, where they design, manufacture, restore and install stained glass. Zoe Lucker has two brothers, Richard and Steven and a sister, Suzy. She was engaged to James Herbert and gave birth to a girl baby named Lilly Alabama Herbert on 2 September 2008. She always admires her parents and says that they are very liberal, with great attitudes towards life.

Zoe Lucker has always been passionate about acting and was inspired by her primary school teacher Tony Walker, who scripted a role for her in a school play. She attended Huddersfield New College, where she met her mentor, Liz Hayward, a theatre studies teacher. It was Liz Hayward who inspired her to apply for the Ardent School of Theatre, Manchester, England. After her graduation, she became a part of the Hull Truck Theatre Company. Zoe Lucker exhibited her talent in stage plays while touring with the Hull Truck Theatre Company and played a vital role in Dracula and The New Office Party plays written by John Godber, a popular English playwright.

In 2004, Lucker was nominated for a National Television Award in the category of Most popular actress for her work on Footballers' Wives and made an appearance in ITV's Bad Girls as her Footballers' Wives character Tanya Turner.

Her other television credits include appearances in episodes of Doctors, Holby City, Lynda La Plante's Killer Net, Boyz Unlimited, Trial and Retribution, Where the Heart Is, Coronation Street, Brazen Hussies and theatre work with the acclaimed Hull Truck Theatre Company.