Heather Heyer

Heather Irem Heyer, also known under her former child alias Lily Milton is a actress for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Focus on the Family Radio Theatre.
Heyer was born on the 11th of February, 1994 in South Shields, Tyne and Ware, England to Milton Heyer and Amna Heyer (Né Uyger). Her father is of English descent and her mother is of Turkish and South Caucasian descent.
During her earliest days, Heyer lived in New Zealand, Oman and Yemen while her father worked for a cruise ship company. heyer then returned to the United Kingdom to live in Stratford upon Avon in the late 1990’s, and would move back to her native Tyneside in 2004.
Due to concerns by her family, heyer went under the chosen stage name Lily Milton, after her father(Milton) and her paternal grandmother (Lily). Under this alias, Heyer would also undergo mentorship for radio theatre and voice acting with Eve Karpf and the late Katherine Kellgren, who helped her get her first gig in the Radio Theatre business as the voice of child Cosette in the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production of Les Misérables. heyer would also appear in Focus on the Family’s productions of the Secret Garden (As young mary Lennox) and the Chronicles of Narnia: the Last Battle (as the mouse). Heyer holds the distinction of being the youngest actor to ever play Cosette in any production of Les misérables to date, being 5 and 6 years old when recording her lines for the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production at the Soundhouse LTD studio in London in February 2000.
Heyer auditioned for the role of Rapunzel for Disney’s Tangled, which was to be one of her first roles under her real name. Sadly, she did not get the role.
She subsequently retired from all acting gigs in the 2010’s, though she was approached by a few radio theatre producers for roles in radio dramas including Rose Maylie in a Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production of Oliver Twist.
Her final role in a radio drama was as the voice of Jessie in Lamplighter Theatre’s production of “A Peep Behind the Scenes,” under the alias Zoe Thorn, an alias she chose herself after her favourite singer, Tracy Thorn from the band Everything But the Girl. In 2016, she was approached to voice the role of Sophie in the Augustine Institute Radio Theatre’s production of the Trials of Saint Patrick, which was to be credited under her real name, but she turned down the role due to having trouble with the Irish accent.
Through out Heyer’s acting career, she has worked with actors such as Eve Karpf, Tenniel Evans, Christina Greatrex, Katherine Kellgren, Brian Blessed, Ron Moody, Polly March and David Suchet, as well as other child actors such as Nathaniel Lipiett, Jonny Scott, Jade Williams and Steven Webb.
Heyer now resides in Newcastle Upon Tyne where she leads a quiet life with her husband Jonny, their daughter Charity, and old cat Memphis. In early 2023, her mother Amna died of a heart attack. Her father, Milton has also done voice work on various audio dramas under the alias Robert Young. She plays the guitar and is an excellent singer.
She married fellow Focus on the Family Radio Theatre actor Jonny Taylor Forster in 2018, and on 16 December, 2023, the couple welcomed their daughter, Charity Taylor-Forster into the world in South Shields, England.
In 2022, she made her return to audio drama under her married name Heather Forster, when she recorded her lines for Augustine Institute Radio Theatre’s 2023 audio drama the Victory of Joan of Arc, appearing alongside actors such as Harry Lloyd, Finty Williams, Tom Byrne, Andrew Harrison, and Chris Larkin.

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