A British film set decorator, Kathy Lucas started her career as an assistant set dress and decorator and worked on films like Barbarians at the Gate (1993), Stuart Saves His Family (1995), Mars Attack (1996), A Thousand Acres (1997), What Lies Beneath and The Last Samurai (2003).

Meanwhile, she made debut as an independent set decorator with films like The Last Seduction (1994), The Story of Us (1999(, Legally Blonde (2001) and The Spongebob SquarePants Movie (2004). Having won several accolades and nominations, her significant works are Nancy Drew (2007), John Adams (2008), The Ugly Truth (2009), The Lucky One (2012), R.I.P.D (2013), Scorpion (2014), and Insurgent (2015). Films Detroit (2017) and First Man (2018) are among her other projects.