British writer, actress and theatre director
Jacquetta May
is a
British
actor, screenwriter, theatre director and producer.
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Early life
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Born in
Kent
, she attended Tonbridge Grammar School for Girls, and
Bristol University
.
Career
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Acting
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May joined
EastEnders
in 1991 for two years to play
Rachel Kominski
, Michelle Fowler's landlady and Mark Fowler's girlfriend. She went on to be a regular in
Dangerfield
(1996),
Cardiac Arrest
(1996), Four Fathers (1999) and
Home Farm Twins
(1999), and also appeared in
Crocodile Shoes
(1994),
Peak Practice
(2000),
Down to Earth
(2001),
Cold Feet
(2001),
I'm Alan Partridge
(2002),
Holby City
(2003),
Silent Witness
(2005),
New Tricks
(2011),
The Bill
and
Casualty
many times (1996 - 2012),
Being Human
(2010),
Law & Order: UK
(2010),
Midsomer Murders
(2021),
The Killing Kind
(2023), and
Ridley
(2022) with
Adrian Dunbar
, amongst others. She also appeared in the films, Naked Cell (1988) and
Get Real
(1998)
Writing
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May started writing for television at
World Productions
in 2000. She co-created UGetMe for
CBBC
which ran for 3 series (2003 - 2005), and wrote for
No Angels
(2006),
Where the Heart Is
(2000),
Shades
(2000),
New Tricks
(2006),
Personal Affairs
(2009), and for the first series of
Torchwood
(2006). Her film
In Love with Barbara
(2008) about the romantic novelist
Barbara Cartland
and her friendship with
Lord Mountbatten
, starring
Anne Reid
and
David Warner
, was broadcast on
BBC Four
in 2008. She adapted
Erica Jong's
novel
Fear of Flying
. May's legal thriller Lawless, starring
Suranne Jones
,
Lindsay Duncan
and
Jonathan Cake
, was piloted in 2012 on
Sky Living
. She wrote for two series of
Living The Dream
for
Sky Comedy
, starring
Philip Glenister
and
Lesley Sharp
(2017 -2019)
Directing and Producing
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May co-founded the award-winning new writing theatre company Plain Clothes Productions, commissioning, producing and directing for the company which toured the UK, and played The Traverse,
The Bush Theatre
, the
Young Vic
, and
Battersea Arts Centre
. She directed Her Sister’s Tongue at
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
in 1997 for the company. In 2019 she associate directed
Brigit Forsyth
in Killing Time, by Zoe Mills at
59E59 Theatre
,
off-Broadway
,
New York
.
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