BAD GIRLS The Musical

Training:
Arts Educational School and RADA.

Theatre includes:
seasons at Manchester, Liverpool, Ipswich, Cambridge Theatre Company and at the NT where she appeared in Absolute Hell with her idol Dame Judi Dench. Recently she played the Wicked Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty (Lyceum, Sheffield) and has appeared in The Vagina Monologues.

Film includes:
A Kind of Loving and Billy Liar, both directed by John Schlesinger, and Repulsion directed by Roman Polanski.

Television includes:
Rising Damp, Doctor in Charge, One Foot in the Grave and The Dick Emery Show (seven series).

Favourite television roles include:
Ellen in Box of Delights, Magenta Savannah in Coronation Street, a hypnotherapist who tried to make Jack Duckworth give up smoking and Sylvia Hollamby, the prison officer from hell, in Bad Girls (eighth series).

Other work includes:
Helen researched, wrote and presented in the UK and USA her own show Vesta, the story of the music hall star Vesta Victoria, incorporating 12 of her best known songs. Helen is a patron of Each (East Anglian Children’s Hospices) and chose them as her charity in Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, making them a tidy sum. In 2004, she was awarded an Honorary Degree of Civil Law by the University of East Anglia for her services to the theatre.