Helen Baxendale

Helen Victoria Baxendale ( born June 7, 1970 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a British actress.

Life

Helen Victoria Baxendale was born in Wakefield and grew up in Shenstone, Staffordshire. Originally she wanted to be a ballet dancer and attended to the Elmhurst School for Dance. However, they broke the training, in favor of an acting training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at the age of 17 years. Your first acting steps she made from 1992 to 1994 at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. From there she was cast in her role as Dr. Claire Maitland in the television series Cardiac Arrest.

Among her major series appearances continue counted Cold Feet, Friends and Kidnap and Ransom. She was also in the films Ordinary Decent Criminal - Ordinary Decent Criminal, Together, 's dies better and last seen in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous.

Since her time at the Glasgow theater, she is with the British filmmaker David L. Williams, with whom she has three children together, romantically involved. The first pregnancy was added written her character during her appearance on the television series An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, and the second pregnancy during their time with Cold Feet on the role. Because of her first pregnancy, she was also previously written two episodes from the series Friends, as originally thought. Her performance ended after only 14 episodes instead of 16.

Filmography (selection)

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