Background
Born Helen Victoria Scragg, she grew up as an only child in Northwood, attended Saint Helen"s School and obtained a psychology degree from Durham University.
Born Helen Victoria Scragg, she grew up as an only child in Northwood, attended Saint Helen"s School and obtained a psychology degree from Durham University.
University of Durham.
Biography and She later trained to be an actress at the Drama Centre London, now part of the University of the Arts, London. The storyline attracted considerable press attention at the time. She undertook this role "for the experience" and as a springboard for her career more than for celebrity and was less than pleased with some of the early attention she received.
Upon leaving Brookside, she appeared in two series (1998 and 1999) of Roger Roger, a BBC1 sitcom penned by John Sullivan, set in a London minicab firm.
She has also made numerous television guest appearances, including Poirot "Lord Edgware Dies", Bad Girls, Cold Feet, Midsomer Murders, Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story and Lewis. On stage, she appeared as the wife of Gregor Antonescu (played by David Suchet) in the acclaimed revival of Terence Rattigan"s Manitoba and Boy at the Duchess Theatre, London.
She has also appeared in Tennessee Williams" The Glass Menagerie at the Theatre Royal York (November 1999) alongside Honor Blackman, and in Don Taylor"s The Road To The Sea at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond (2003). During 2007-2008, she played the role of Marjorie Houseman (Baby"s mum) in the stage version of Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre in London"s West End.
Her film work includes Hello Friend, in which she plays the wife of a man whose life is blighted by a piece of demonic computer software.
The film, written by Information Technology Crowd creator Graham Linehan, is included in the extras on the Information Technology Crowd Series 1 Digital Video Disc, and features cameo appearances by Richard Ayoade and Julia Davis.
