Occupation Television director Name Juliet May | Role Television Director | |
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Born 1966 Ipswich, Suffolk Movies Dustbin Baby, The Treasure Seekers, Dear Nobody, The Law Nominations British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Programme Similar People Miranda Hart, Rob Grant, Helen Blakeman, Saffron Coomber, Juliet Stevenson | ||
Juliet May (born 1966) is a British television director. She has directed television shows such as Dalziel and Pascoe, Hope and Glory, New Tricks and Miranda.
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Personal life
Juliet is the daughter of Val May, the theatre director, and his first wife, Penelope (formerly Rish).
Career
May 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.
She directed all twelve episodes of Steven Moffat's 1997 school-based sitcom Chalk. 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. She found it hard to work with the science fiction elements of the series and left before the series had completed. The remaining episodes were directed by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
In 2008, she directed the BBC film Dustbin Baby. May then went on to direct 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.