External links
- Juliet May at IMDb
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| Born | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Television director |
| Years active | Red Dwarf Microsoap The Lenny Henry Show |
| Parent(s) | Val May, Penelope May |
Juliet Mayis a British television director. She has directed television shows such as Dalziel and Pascoe , Hope and Glory , New Tricks and Miranda .
Juliet is the daughter of Val May, the theatre director, and his first wife, Penelope (formerly Rish).
May co-directed the television series The Lenny Henry Show in the 1980s. She oversaw all eight episodes of Heil Honey I'm Home! in 1990, a sitcom featuring Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun for British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990; only the pilot was ever transmitted. In 1995, she was nominated for a BAFTA award for Rory Bremner, Who Else? , and won a BAFTA Children's Award in 1999 for Microsoap produced by Andy Rowley, with whom May has collaborated on a number of productions. [1] She directed all twelve episodes of Steven Moffat's 1997 school-based sitcom Chalk . [2] She then directed Robert Bathurst in My Dad's the Prime Minister , and Dawn French and Catherine Tate in Wild West . She also directed some episodes of series V of Red Dwarf . [3] May found it challenging to work with the science fiction elements of Red Dwarf and left before the series was finished, [4] the remaining episodes were directed by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. [5] In 2008, she directed the BBC film Dustbin Baby . May then directed the BBC sitcom Miranda , starring Miranda Hart. In 2015, May directed episodes 3, 4 and 6 of British television drama series Ordinary Lies , for BBC One. [6] [7] [8]
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