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Heather Menzies
Heather Menzies (Heather Menzies-Urich), Canadian-American actress (1949-2017) who played Louisa von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), later starred in Logan's Run and Piranha, and founded the Robert Urich Foundation for cancer research.
Heather Morris
Heather Morris (born 1987, Thousand Oaks, California) is the American actress and dancer who played Brittany S. Pierce on Glee; distinct from the novelist author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Heather Peace
Heather Peace (born 1975, Bradford) is an English actress and singer-songwriter known for Eve Panesar-Unwin in EastEnders, Sally Fields in London's Burning, Sam Murray in Lip Service, and Nikki Boston in Waterloo Road, plus four independent albums.
Heather Thomas
Heather Thomas (born 1957, Greenwich, Connecticut) is a retired American actress, Jody Banks on The Fall Guy (1981-86) with Lee Majors; also Zapped!, Cyclone, My Giant; later writer of the novel Trophies; distinct from poet Heather H. Thomas and actress Heather Tom.
Heather Tom
Heather Tom is an American actress and director known for playing Victoria Newman on The Young and the Restless and Katie Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful.
Héctor Elizondo
Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is an American character actor, Emmy winner for Chicago Hope and star of Pretty Woman; not the UFO figure Luis Elizondo, a different person.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Kiesler, 1914-2000), Austrian-born Hollywood star of Samson and Delilah, who with George Antheil patented 1942 frequency-hopping torpedo guidance, forerunner of spread-spectrum Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth.
Heida Reed
Heida Reed (Heiða Rún Sigurðardóttir), Icelandic actress born 1988 in Reykjavik; known for Elizabeth in Poldark, Special Agent Jamie Kellett in FBI: International, and Stella Blómkvist; trained at Drama Centre London.
Heidi Gardner
Heidi Gardner is an American actress, comedian, and writer, born 1983 in Kansas City, Missouri, who spent eight seasons on Saturday Night Live (2017–2025) after training at the Groundlings, known for characters like Bailey Gismert and roles in Shrinking, Hustle, and Leo.
Heidi Swedberg
Heidi Swedberg (born 1966, Honolulu) is an American actress and ukulele musician, known as Susan Ross on Seinfeld (1992–1997, 28 episodes), in Hot Shots! and Galaxy Quest, and for the Sukey Jump Band.
Heidi Vanderbilt
Heidi Lourdes Murray Vanderbilt (1948-2021), Vanderbilt-family daughter, Broadway debut 1965 as Heidi Murray in Ruth Gordon's A Very Rich Woman; Edgar Award 1983; author of The Scar Rule (2020); Arizona rancher.
Heike Makatsch
Heike Makatsch (born 1971, Düsseldorf) is a German actress, singer, and author, formerly a VIVA music-channel presenter. Known for Männerpension, Love Actually, Hilde, Margarete Steiff, Tatort, and Where's Wanda?; Bambi and Golden Camera winner.
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 1955) is an English actor and comedian known as Mrs Miggins in Blackadder the Third and for Radio Active/KYTV, and a patron of the INK Festival.
Helen Baxendale
Helen Victoria Baxendale is an English actress known for Rachel Bradley in Cold Feet (1997–2003) and Emily Waltham in Friends (1998–99). Birth year disputed (1969 vs 1970); won 1998 Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Actress.
Helen George
Helen George (born 1984) is an English actress and Royal Academy of Music-trained singer, best known as Nurse Trixie Franklin in BBC One's Call the Midwife since 2012; also a Strictly 2015 semi-finalist and 2026 Tracy Lord in High Society.
Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (Helen Hayes Brown, 1900–1993), American actress called the First Lady of the American Theatre; two-time Oscar winner (The Sin of Madelon Claudet, Airport), EGOT holder, Broadway debut at age nine in Old Dutch.
Helen Horton
Helen Virginia Horton (1923–2007), American actress based in Britain; voice of Mother, the Nostromo's computer, in Alien (1979); also Superman III, Phase IV, The Benny Hill Show; grandmother of actress Lily James.
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt, born 1963 in Culver City, California, is an American actress and director who won four Emmys for Mad About You and the 1998 Best Actress Oscar for As Good as It Gets.
Helen Lederer
Helen Lederer (born 1954) is a British comedian, actor, and writer, best known as Catriona in Absolutely Fabulous and for Naked Video; founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize and author of Losing It and Not That I'm Bitter.
Helen Martin
Helen Dorothy Martin (1909–2000), American actress, founding member of Harlem's American Negro Theater, Broadway debut in Welles's Native Son (1941), best known as Pearl Shay on 227.
Helen McCrory
Helen McCrory (1968–2021), English stage and screen actress; Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders and Narcissa Malfoy in the final three Harry Potter films; OBE 2017; died of cancer aged 52.
Helen Mirren
Dame Helen Mirren, born Ilyena Lydia Mironoff, is an English actor who won the Academy Award for The Queen and played DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect.
Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver, born 1951 in St. Thomas, Ontario, is a Canadian actress and director known for In Praise of Older Women, Desert Hearts, and The Color of Money, and for directing Vikings, Station Eleven, and The Penguin.
Helen Slater
Helen Slater (Helen Rachel Schlacter), American actress and singer-songwriter born 1963; starred in Supergirl (1984), The Legend of Billie Jean, City Slickers, and played Eliza Danvers on the CW's Supergirl; also a recording artist with six albums.
Helen Wagner
Helen Wagner (1918-2010), American actress, played Nancy Hughes on CBS's As the World Turns from its April 2, 1956 premiere until her death, holding the Guinness record for the longest same-role television run, 54 years.
Helen Worth
Helen Worth, born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth, is the English actress who played Gail Platt (Gail Rodwell) in Coronation Street from 1974 to 2024, about 4,450 episodes, leaving on Christmas Day 2024; MBE for services to drama.
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966, London), also credited as Helena B. Carter, is an English actress known for A Room with a View, Fight Club, her Tim Burton collaborations, and Princess Margaret in The Crown, with two Oscar nominations and a CBE.
Helena Mattsson
Helena Mattsson, born 1984 in Stockholm, is a Swedish actress based in Hollywood, known for Species: The Awakening, 666 Park Avenue, Nikita, Iron Man 2, and Seven Psychopaths; distinct from the KTH architecture professor of the same name.
Hélène Joy
Hélène Joy, Australian-Canadian actress born in Perth, trained at WAAPA and Bell Shakespeare; known as Dr. Julia Ogden in Murdoch Mysteries and Audrey Sweeney in Durham County; 2008 Gemini winner.
Hélène Surgère
Hélène Surgère, born Hélène Marcelle Simone Collet, was a French stage and film actress who appeared in Pasolini's Salò and joined the Comédie-Française in 2010.