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Helen Baxendale Biography

Birth Name:
Helen Baxendale
Birth Place:
Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire
Profession
Actor

Fast Facts

  • Met her partner, David L
  • Williams, while they were both acting at Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland
  • First professional job was as an understudy to Toyah Willcox in a stage production of Amadeus
  • Stint on Friends was shorter than intended due to a pregnancy; her final scene was filmed with her in bed under a sheet to hide her belly
  • Recruited old school friends to appear in Beyond the Pole (2009), which she produced with her husband
  • Aspires to an eco-friendly lifestyle, often dressing her family in secondhand clothing instead of buying new garments

Relationships