Bio
Lucy Akhurst is an English actress, writer and director who starred alongside Neil Morrissey in The Vanishing Man and then came to prominence in a lead role in 1999's ITV seven-part drama Wonderful You.
Akhurst was born Lucy Akhurst-Webster in London, England. A few years later, her family moved to the northeast of England and she attended school there.
She left her drama school (which she also loathed) early, having been discovered by the BBC and cast in a lead role in the convention-breaking drama All Quiet on the Preston Front in 1994.
Since then she has worked steadily in television and on such films as The Land Girls (1998) and Trinity (2003), a British/Canadian co-production, and the horror/comedy hit Shaun of the Dead (2004).