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Hela (character)

Hela: Marvel Comics Asgardian goddess of death (also Queen of Hel), based on Norse Hel; created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Journey Into Mystery #102 (1964); ruler of Hel and Niffleheim, foe of Thor, MCU villain played by Cate Blanchett.

Helen (2019 film)

Helen (ഹെലൻ) is a 2019 Malayalam survival thriller, Mathukutty Xavier's debut, produced by Vineeth Sreenivasan, starring Anna Ben as a nursing graduate trapped in a freezer; it won the National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director.

Helen (actress)

Helen (Helen Ann Richardson Khan, born 21 November 1938, Rangoon) is a Burma-born Indian actress and dancer of Hindi cinema, the famed Cabaret Queen and vamp of 1950s-1980s Bollywood, known for "Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu" and the Filmfare-winning Lahu Ke Do Rang.

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 Bauer

Helen Bauer is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who started in Berlin's comedy scene, was a 2018 BBC New Comedy Award finalist, earned a 2019 Edinburgh Best Newcomer nomination, and hosts the Trusty Hogs podcast.

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 Chamberlain

Helen Chamberlain, also known as Helen Marie Chamberlain, is a British television presenter best known for hosting Sky Sports' Soccer AM from 1995 to 2017.

Helen Crump

Helen Crump, also Helen Crump Taylor, is the fictional Mayberry schoolteacher on The Andy Griffith Show played by Aneta Corsaut from 1963, who became Andy Taylor's wife in the Mayberry R.F.D. pilot.

Helen Flanagan

Helen Joyce Gabriel Flanagan (born 1990, Bury) is an English actress and TV personality who played Rosie Webster in Coronation Street 2000-2012 and 2017-2018, later appearing on I'm a Celebrity and Celebs Go Dating.

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 Hunt filmography

Helen Hunt filmography: full credits of American actress Helen Hunt (Helen Elizabeth Hunt), from Pioneer Woman (1973) and Mad About You (four Emmys) to As Good as It Gets (1997 Oscar), The Sessions, Then She Found Me, and Hacks.

Helen J. Shen

Helen J. Shen (born 2000, Basking Ridge, NJ) is an American actor, singer and writer, she/they, who originated Claire in Broadway's Tony-winning Maybe Happy Ending (2024), earning Theatre World and Clive Barnes Awards and a 2026 Grammy nomination.

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 Menken

Helen Menken (Helen Meinken, 1901-1966) was an American Broadway and radio actress, Humphrey Bogart's first wife, star of Seventh Heaven and The Old Maid, and organizer of the Stage Door Canteen and the Tony Awards.

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 Serafinowicz

Helen Serafinowicz (born 1974), formerly Helen Linehan, is a British comedy writer and producer, sister of Peter Serafinowicz, co-creator of Motherland and creator of Nova Jones and Amandaland.

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 Skelton

Helen Skelton (born 1983) is an English TV presenter from Cumbria, a Blue Peter host 2008–2013, Amazon-kayaking Sport Relief record holder, Countryfile and Morning Live presenter, and Strictly 2022 runner-up.

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 Wood (television personality)

Helen Wood, born 1986, is a British reality television personality from Bolton, England, best known as the winner of Big Brother UK's fifteenth series in 2014.

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 Luke

Helena Luke was an Indian-American actress and model who worked in Hindi cinema, best known for Mard (1985) opposite Amitabh Bachchan and as Mithun Chakraborty's first wife.

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.