Juliet Ace wrote extensively for radio, television and film, producing more than 40 radio plays, episodes of The Archers, two S4C films and original EastEnders scripts. She earned nominations for a Welsh Bafta and two Sony awards. Born in Llanelli, she grew up bilingual, trained as a teacher and actor, and worked in repertory theatre and schools. She discovered her talent for writing in her late 30s and achieved her first BBC Radio 4 broadcast in 1980. Her final play, Moving the Goalposts (2020), recounted her survival of stage-four spinal cancer; she lived twelve years beyond prognosis.
Her final radio play for BBC Radio 4 was Moving the Goalposts, broadcast in 2020, which told the story of her survival of stage four spinal cancer. She somewhat miraculously defied the prognosis of imminent death and lived for another 12 years, but was in no way heroic about it. One of her proudest moments came when a doctor told her that he had prescribed her play to one of his patients.
Born and raised in Llanelli, south Wales, Juliet was the daughter of Glenys (nee Evans) and Charles Ace, a businessman. It was a chaotic wartime childhood, speaking Welsh with her mother's relatives in Llangennech and English at home: her father wanted her to sound like a Home Service announcer. After leaving Llanelli girls' grammar school, she trained as a teacher in Coventry and as an actor at Rose Bruford College in London.
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