Juliet Lacey was born in India and educated abroad, before settling in England in the 1960s. She read English at Oxford and worked in publishing before training as an actor at RADA. Her acting career included 3 seasons with the RSC, leading roles in rep and the London fringe and appearances in TV soaps such as Man of Straw, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and Open All Hours. After retiring from acting to bring up her daughters, she worked for many years as tutor and director at RADA and other acting schools. Her handbook for students Performing Shakespeare is published by Samuel French.
She has written 9 plays, two of them prize winners; the most recent, The Long Bones about the poet Alun Lewis, was shown at the White Bear Theatre, London in 2018.
She has written poetry all her life, and her poems have been placed in several competitions, including 3rd prize in the International Strokestown Competition, and featured in magazines such as The Interpreter’s House and Agenda, and in the anthologies Building Jerusalem and Hollow Palaces. She currently leads a Poetry Appreciation group for the Crewkerne U3A.