Background
Juliet is the daughter of Val May, the theatre director, and his first wife, Penelope (formerly Rish).
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Juliet May
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She has directed television shows such as Dalziel and Pascoe, Hope and Glory, New Tricks and the award-winning Miranda. 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.
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 British Broadcasting Corporation film Dustbin Baby.
May then went on to direct the British Broadcasting Corporation sitcom Miranda, starring Miranda Hart. In 2015, May directed episodes 3, 4 and 6 of British television drama series Ordinary Lies, for British Broadcasting Corporation One.
