Lucy Akhurst

Lucy Akhurst
Occupation	Actress

Lucy Akhurst (b. 18 November 1975 in London) is an English actress who has been working mainly in television since the 1990s. She starred alongside Neil Morrisey in The Vanishing Man and then came to prominence in a lead role in 1999's ITV seven-part drama Wonderful you.

She appeared as Tim's (Simon Pegg's) girlfriend for 4 episodes of UK comedy Spaced and also guest-starred as a zombie in Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's comedy film Shaun of the Dead.

She also appeared in the 2004 series of the BBC's Monarch of the Glen.

More recently she wrote, produced and starred in Every Seven Years a short film that has won several awards and directed the independent British movie Morris: A Life With Bells On, starring Chas Oldham.

Akhurst provided the voiceovers for EastEnders in March 2009 for the Mitchell family storyline.

Filmography

• The Cinder Path (1994)
• The Vanishing Man (1996)
• All Quiet on the Preston Front (1997)
• The Saint (1997)
• The Land Girls (1998)
• The Vanishing Man (1998)
• Wonderful you (1999)
• Peak Practice (1999)
• Holby City (2000)
• Taggart: Skin Deep (2000)
• Longitude (2000)
• Beast (2000)
• Circus (2000)
• Trinity (2001)
• Spaced (2001)
• In Deep (2002)
• Eroica (2003)
• Ultimate Force (2003) ... as MI5 Liaison Officer Pru Banks
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Every Seven Years (2004)
• Monarch of the Glen (2004)

External links

• The Lucy Akhurst Placeholder Page - fan site