Helen Atkinson-Wood

Helen Atkinson-Wood

Born: March 14, 1955
in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, UK
Helen Atkinson-Wood is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. She studied fine art at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, where she performed with Rowan Atkinson (no relation). She also performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she met Ben Elton. Whilst at Oxford, she took part in an OUDS production of Richard II. Also in this production was Tim McInnerny, who played the lead. She later appeared together with McInnerny in an episode of Blackadder the Third. This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.

Movies for Helen Atkinson-Wood...

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilization?
Title: The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilization?
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2018
Type: Movie
From the beginning of the Earth to our present moment, this film encounters extraordinary projects and people from four continents, economist Kate Raworth, philosopher Roger Scruton and Gaian ecologist Stephan Harding.
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Title: QI
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: TV
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
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Your Cheatin' Heart
Title: Your Cheatin' Heart
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: Movie
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
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Title: Your Cheatin' Heart
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: TV
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
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Title: Your Cheatin' Heart
Character: Tamara MacAskill
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: TV
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
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Title: Rita Rudner
Released: September 18, 1990
Type: TV
Singer, actress, dancer, comedienne: these are just some of the words the popular American comic can spell. Rita Rudner's first British series features stand-up comedy, sketches and songs.
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The Craig Ferguson Show
Title: The Craig Ferguson Show
Character: Various
Released: March 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Craig Ferguson tells jokes and introduces filmed skits.
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Title: KYTV
Released: May 1, 1989
Type: TV
KYTV was a sketch-based show which lampooned the new satellite television companies which had begun to operate in the UK. Each week, a different aspect of 'cheap' television production and broadcasting provided the 'theme' for the sketches in the programme. Inept links and amateurish presentation were very much the order of the day.
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Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Title: Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
Character: Miranda
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the power that Consuela, the sinister Spanish housekeeper,seems to wield, comparing her to John's first wife and forbidding her to enter a mysterious locked room.
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Title: Girls On Top
Character: Jane
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: TV
Four girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender, they barely manage to co-exist.
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Title: Kelly's Eye
Released: July 20, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Blackadder
Character: Mrs. Miggins
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: TV
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
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Title: Saturday Stayback
Released: January 22, 1983
Type: TV
A late night comedy show made in 1983 by Central Television, starring Chris Tarrant, performed entirely in a public house. It was a sequel to the controversial O.T.T., itself a spin-off from Tiswas. From these previous shows were regulars Bob Carolgees and Helen Atkinson-Wood, as well as newcomer to television Tony Slattery. Guest appearances included Frank Carson and making his TV debut, impressionist Phil Cool.
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Title: The Young Ones
Character: Woman in Advert
Released: November 9, 1982
Type: TV
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rik, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvian the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind).
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Title: The Comic Strip Presents...
Character: Miranda
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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Title: O.T.T.
Released: January 2, 1982
Type: TV
O.T.T. was a late-night adult version of the anarchic ATV children's show Tiswas, but made by its ITV franchise successor Central Independent Television. It was broadcast at 11.00pm on Saturday nights for one series in 1982. It was created and presented by Chris Tarrant, and also starred ex-Tiswasians John Gorman, Lenny Henry and Bob Carolgees. Helen Atkinson-Wood was the female sidekick replacement for Sally James, who stayed behind to present the concurrent and final series of Tiswas alone.