Helen Baxendale

Helen Baxendale

Born: June 7, 1970
in Wakefield, England, UK

Movies for Helen Baxendale...

Agatha and the Midnight Murders
Title: Agatha and the Midnight Murders
Character: Agatha Christie
Released: October 7, 2020
Type: Movie
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.
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Title: Noughts + Crosses
Character: Meggie McGregor
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: TV
In an alternate history where black “Cross” people rule over white “Noughts”, young couple Sephy and Callum are divided by their colour but united by love.
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Heidi: Queen of the Mountain
Title: Heidi: Queen of the Mountain
Character: Seb
Released: December 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Heidi: Queen of the Mountain, partially inspired by Johanna Spyri’s beloved Heidi, reimagines the tale for a new audience.
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Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb
Title: Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb
Character: Narrator
Released: December 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Documentary which follows the construction of a trailblazing 36,000-tonne steel structure to entomb the ruins of the nuclear power plant destroyed in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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How Star Wars Changed the World
Title: How Star Wars Changed the World
Character: Host
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Documentary taking a warm and celebratory look at the countless ways the Star Wars universe has inspired fans all over the globe. Whether it be adhering to the scriptures of Jedi, perfecting one's light-saber skills, designing a Wookie costume, or making a self-financed fan film, this show revels in the bright side of the Force.
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Title: Cuckoo
Character: Lorna Thompson
Released: September 25, 2012
Type: TV
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
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Title: Dirk Gently
Character: Susan Harmison
Released: March 5, 2012
Type: TV
Detective Dirk Gently operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Sasha Moore
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Anonymous
Title: Anonymous
Character: Anne De Vere
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
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Title: Kidnap and Ransom
Character: Angela Beddoes
Released: January 13, 2011
Type: TV
Kidnap and Ransom is a British television three-part miniseries, originally shown on ITV in January 2011 with a second series following in February 2012. The series follows the work of a British hostage negotiator Dominic King, played by Trevor Eve, who is also executive producer of the series.
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Beyond The Pole
Title: Beyond The Pole
Character: Becky
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A documentary film crew follows the first carbon neutral, organic, vegetarian expedition ever to attempt the North Pole. Simultaneously Saving the Planet and getting into the Guinness Book of Records Brian and Mark hope to kill two birds with one stone. Unfortunately, they have never done anything like this before.
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Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Title: Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley
Character: Sarah
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
When Julie Bottomley discovers her husband of 10 years has been sleeping with her sister, her first instinct is to kill him. However, rather than risk life imprisonment herself, she devises a better plan to get revenge on Ian by faking her own death and framing him for murder. But can she resist the temptation to let her jailed husband know just how "Dead Clever" she's been?
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The Only Boy for Me
Title: The Only Boy for Me
Character: Annie
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Annie, a single mother who is devoted to her son Charlie, starts a relationship with Mack. The problems start when Mack asks Annie and Charlie to move to New York with him.
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Angel of Death: The Story of Beverly Allitt
Title: Angel of Death: The Story of Beverly Allitt
Character: Narrator
Released: May 4, 2005
Type: Movie
A disturbing docu-drama re-telling the story of the horrific case of Beverley Allitt, a children's nurse, accused in 1991 of killing four children in her care and harming nine others over a short period of just 59 days. The judge gave her a sentence of 30 years imprisonment, one of the longest sentences given to a woman in this country - exceeded only by those of Rosemary West and Myra Hindley. In the role of Allitt herself, giving an excellently controlled performance, is former "EastEnders" actress Charlie Brooks.
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Sweet Dreams
Title: Sweet Dreams
Character: Stella
Released: March 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
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Flyfishing
Title: Flyfishing
Character: Sam
Released: February 2, 2003
Type: Movie
Two flatmates struggling to pay the rent are persuaded to join an escort agency. What seems at first like a perfect solution, soon takes a messy turn for the worst when they, and their clients, all start falling in love with each other!
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Lost in the Snow
Title: Lost in the Snow
Character: Lily
Released: November 11, 2002
Type: Movie
This movie is a coming of age story around a teddy bear who gets lost and faces challenges while getting back home.
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Dead by Monday
Title: Dead by Monday
Character: Julie Matthews
Released: August 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Dead by Monday is a darkly comic tale of love and death... but not necessarily in that order. Julie is a sweet, vulnerable young woman who lacks confidence and is obsessed with the memory of her dead husband whom she idealizes. Alex is an angry writer. Talented but unable to repeat the success of his first novel, he has nothing left to say. Or live for. He just wants to die. Fate introduces these two lost souls at the edge of a cliff. While picking flowers Julie accidentally falls off. Alex, who has come to blow his brains out, is interrupted by her cry for help, just before he pulls the trigger.
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Title: Murder in Mind
Character: Helen Robbins
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: TV
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
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Title: Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Character: Pandora Braithwaite
Released: February 2, 2001
Type: TV
Adrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years is a British television series which was first aired on BBC One in 2001. The series was based on the fifth book from the Adrian Mole series, The Cappuccino Years. The series was produced by Tiger Aspect/Little Dancer Production for the BBC.
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Tales from the Madhouse
Title: Tales from the Madhouse
Character: The Servant Girl
Released: April 16, 2000
Type: Movie
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. The eight are linked by one unifying and crucial event in their lives: each of them has had an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth in some way — an experience that has left an indelible mark.
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Title: Ordinary Decent Criminal
Character: Lisa
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
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Title: Cold Feet
Character: Rachel Bradley
Released: November 15, 1998
Type: TV
Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?
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Title: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Released: October 24, 1997
Type: TV
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Lady Macbeth
Released: May 16, 1997
Type: Movie
In eleventh century Scotland, three witches foretell that Macbeth will become King, while Banquo will beget Kings. Macbeth accordingly has King Duncan slain, and is duly crowned in his place. But that's where his problems really begin...
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Rose Lancaster
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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The Investigator
Title: The Investigator
Character: Sgt. Caroline Meagher
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
1989: Caroline Meagher is a sergeant with the Royal Military Police, with 12 years' experience, stationed in Northern Ireland. Two men from internal affairs grill her for four days: someone has accused her of being a lesbian. It's an offense that leads to court martial. In a series of flashbacks, we see her enthusiasm when she joins the force, her various assignments including investigating suspected lesbians, and her own slow discovery of her sexual nature. She, like others in her situation, must go to great lengths to avoid detection. Once reported, will she withstand the interrogation? Meagher herself comments on camera at the end of the film.
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Bolshe vita
Title: Bolshe vita
Released: October 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Russians, westerns and Hungarians live unique moments in post-89 Hungary.
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Crossing the Floor
Title: Crossing the Floor
Character: Ruth Clarke
Released: October 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
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Truth or Dare
Title: Truth or Dare
Character: Lorna Johnston
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
When three university friends turn up unexpectedly, twenty-something lawyer Lorna Johnston is led into a dangerous world.
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Title: Friends
Character: Emily Waltham
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
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Title: Cardiac Arrest
Released: April 21, 1994
Type: TV
This series shows the workings of an English hospital through the eyes of its junior doctors. Naive and idealistic Dr Andrew Collins (Andrew Lancel), soon realises he still has much to learn. His boss, Dr Claire Maitland (Helen Baxendale) on the other hand, has seen it all. She is a competent doctor, with a cynical view, and is ready to work the system when needed, but she and Collins work well together as she guides him through the many minefields of working in the NHS.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Elizabeth Cole
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Emma Hayes
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.