Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Several of Lenkiewicz's plays have been published individually, and in 2013 Faber & Faber published a collection.
Lenkiewicz was born in Plymouth, Devon, the daughter of Celia Mills and Peter Quint, a playwright. Her stepfather is artist Robert Lenkiewicz. Her sister is the artist Alice Lenkiewicz and her brother is the artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, who are both the children of Robert Lenkiewicz. Her other brothers are Peter Mills and Thomas Mills.
She attended Hyde Park Junior School and then Plymouth High School for Girls before progressing to a BA in Film and English at the University of Kent from 1985 to 1989, then later to a BA Acting Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1996 to 1999. Initially she worked as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, notably in Sir Peter Hall's production of The Bacchae.