Lucy Richenda Shorthouse[citation needed] was born in the Nuneaton and Bedworth area of Warwickshire and grew up in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
[1] Shorthouse had her first prominent television role in 2020 when she joined the main cast of the Sky One police procedural Bulletproof for its second series as Paige Pennington.
[8] The following year, she began playing band manager Momtaz in the Channel 4 sitcom We Are Lady Parts.
She also appeared in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore at the Charing Cross Theatre.
[citation needed] She has a leading role as DC Siobhan Clarke in the 2024 BBC Scotland series Rebus opposite Richard Rankin.