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Helena Elizabeth Anne Michell is an Australian-born English
actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
.
She is the daughter of the actors
Keith Michell
Keith Joseph Michell (1 December 1926 – 20 November 2015) was an Australian actor who worked primarily in the United Kingdom, and was best known for his television and film portrayals of King Henry VIII. He appeared extensively in Shakespeare ...
and
Jeanette Sterke
Jeanette Laura Sterke is a British actress.
Sterke was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her parents emigrated to England to escape the Nazis. She went to school in England and attended RADA. She has had a long stage and television career. She ...
. Helena was born in Australia in 1963, but moved to England at an early age.
She began her career as a child in the film drama
''Moments'' with her parents and her brother, Paul.
After three years training at the
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is a drama school in Bristol, England. The institution provides training in acting and production for careers in film, television and theatre.
BOVTS is an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. ...
she secured a part in 1986 in the
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television sitcom ''
Brush Strokes
''Brush Strokes'' is a British television sitcom, broadcast on BBC television from 1986 to 1991. Written by Esmonde and Larbey and set in south London, it depicted the (mostly) amorous adventures of a wisecracking house painter, Jacko (Karl H ...
''.
Early film work included parts in ''
Prick Up Your Ears
''Prick Up Your Ears'' is a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the 1978 biography by John Lahr. The film stars Gar ...
'', and alongside her father in ''
The Deceivers'' (1988).
Television parts came with the ''
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple'' episode "At Bertram's Hotel" (1987), starring
Joan Hickson
Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series ''Miss Marple''. She also narrated a number ...
, and in the
LWT
London Weekend Television (LWT) (now part of the non-franchised ITV London region) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm from 1968 un ...
television series ''
Piece of Cake'' the following year.
Helena Michell had numerous television roles in the 1990s, including ''
Jeeves and Wooster
''Jeeves and Wooster'' is a British comedy-drama television series adapted by Clive Exton from P. G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 22 April 1990 to 20 June 1993, with the last series nominated for a Britis ...
'' and ''
Agatha Christie's Poirot
''Poirot'' (also known as ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'') is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. David Suchet starred as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Her ...
'' “The Theft of the Royal Ruby” (1990), a pivotal role in the television version of
P.D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring t ...
' Inspector Dalgleish story ''
Devices and Desires'' (1991), ''
Sharpe's Enemy
''Sharpe's Enemy: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812'' is the fifteenth historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1984. The story is set in 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars.
...
'' (1994) when she played the part of Sarah Dubreton, the television adaptation of Ruth Rendell's ''
Heartstones'' and also in ''
The Bill
''The Bill'' is a British police procedural television series, first broadcast on ITV from 16 August 1983 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, '' Woodentop'', broadcast in August 1983.
The programme focused o ...
'' in 1996.
This was interspersed with stage parts in mainly children's theatre, and she has appeared with her parents at
Chichester
Chichester () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publi ...
in 1997.
Helena Michell is married to the English playwright Simon David Eden and together they have a daughter called Millie. She continues her theatre work largely through their production company, Shiny Pin Productions, and as an acting coach.
She makes occasional appearances on television. Her last notable large screen part was as Sheila in the romantic comedy ''
Little Box of Sweets'' in 2007.
References
External links
helenamichell.com*
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English film actresses
Living people
1963 births
Australian emigrants to England
English television actresses
English stage actresses
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses