Jacquetta May

Jacquetta May is a British writer, actress and theatre director who portrayed Rachel Kominski in EastEnders from 1991 to 1993.

The call to Walford came when Jacquetta May was half-way through dancing the tango. She almost had to say no to the role of Rachel Kominski because of it. The Kent-born actress had worked in theatre for ten years after leaving Bristol University, with one short television role as a vengeful wife in The Bill. On stage, she'd played Rita in Educating Rita, Lady Chatterley and all sorts of roles at the National Theatre.

Jacquetta started writing for television at World Productions in 2000. She co-created UGetMe for CBBC which ran for three seasons, and wrote for No Angels, Where the Heart Is, Shades, New Tricks, Personal Affairs, and for the first series of Torchwood. Her film In Love with Barbara about the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland and her friendship with Lord Mountbatten, starring Anne Reid and David Warner, was broadcast on BBC4 in 2008. She adapted Erica Jong's iconic novel Fear of Flying, and her legal thriller Lawless, with Suranne Jones, Lindsay Duncan and Jonathan Cake was piloted in 2012 on Sky Living.