Juliet Harmer trained as a primary school teacher specialising in Art.
15 Facts About Juliet Harmer
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Juliet Harmer returned to painting and working with children when her first daughter was born, and she moved to the Cotswolds in 1970.
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However, after an early career as an actress, principally on television, Juliet Harmer chose to stay at home with her children and write and illustrate children's books.
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Juliet Harmer's work has been described by her editor at Egmont Children's Books, as having "an almost melodic simplicity", and an article in the Stroud News and Journal referred to its "jewel-like intensity".
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Juliet Harmer has written and illustrated several books, including four for children and an illuminated manuscript celebrating the healing properties of herbs and flowers.
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Juliet Harmer has exhibited her work in Gloucestershire and London and many of her paintings are in private collections in Paris, London, New York and Sydney.
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Juliet Harmer played Jill Manson, the nominal headmistress of a deserted school in the village of Little Bazeley-on-Sea in the opening episode of the fourth series of The Avengers, in which Diana Rigg appeared for the first time as Emma Peel.
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Juliet Harmer featured in Michael Gill's short film, The Peaches, a fantasy about a beautiful young woman's sensual passion for peaches written by Gill's wife, Yvonne Gilan, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964.
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However, Holloway's performance was deemed "not to fit the series" and Juliet Harmer was cast at short notice from some 300 applicants.
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Juliet Harmer did not even have a screen test and admitted over twenty years later that she had answered affirmatively when asked if she could ride a motor scooter whereas, in fact, she could not.
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Juliet Harmer befriended Adam Adamant, an Edwardian adventurer, played by Gerald Harper, who had been frozen in time in 1902.
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Juliet Harmer reflected in 2006 that most of her fan mail had been from 14- or 15-year-old boys.
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Juliet Harmer acted in Carry On Matron but her scenes were cut from the finished film.
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In 1969 Juliet Harmer appeared as Stevie in Slim John, an English language instructional serial made by the BBC for overseas broadcast.
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Juliet Harmer's paintings have been exhibited in Gloucestershire and London.