Helen Baxendale
Helen Baxendale was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France on June 7th, 1970 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 54, Helen Baxendale biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Helen Victoria Baxendale (born 7 June 1970) is an English actress of stage and television, best known for her appearances as Rachel in the British comedy-drama Cold Feet (1997-2003), and Emily in the American sitcom Friends (1997-98). The Soldiers at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre, which earned her a 1993 Ian Charleson Award nomination, are among Baxendale's early stage appearances.
Cardiac Arrest (1994–2001), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997–2001), and Cuckoo (2012–present).
Early life
Baxendale was born in Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, on June 7, 1970. Katie Baxendale, a screenwriter, is her sister.
Shenstone, Staffordshire, grew up and attended King Edward VI School, Lichfield. When she was younger, she aspired to be a ballet dancer. She studied at the Elmhurst School of Dance but decided against attending a drama at the age of 17. She went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol and then spent time at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre from 1992 to 1995.
Personal life
David L. Williams, Baxendale's mother, has been with her boyfriend David L. Williams since her time in Glasgow. They have three children together. Her first pregnancy was turned into An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, and her second was turned into the fourth series of Cold Feet.
Baxendale's first pregnancy and the fact that she lived in the United Kingdom rather than the United States, her character was published in Friends earlier than the writers had expected. Despite her character dating, marrying, and divorcing Ross Geller (David Schwimmer), one of the show's six leads, she appeared in only 14 episodes.
Career
Via her work at Glasgow Citizens' Theatre, she was cast in hospital TV series Cardiac Arrest, though it was not her first television role. Her performance as Dr Claire Maitland earned her a Scottish BAFTA nomination in 1995.
She was one of the stars of the popular TV series Cold Feet, playing Rachel Bradley, a role which garnered her a British Comedy Award nomination in 1997 in the pilot episode.
She also starred in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, playing Cordelia Gray.
She made notable recurring appearances on the American series Friends as Ross Geller's girlfriend, wife and finally ex-wife Emily Waltham, which gave her wide exposure on American network television. She appeared in fourteen episodes throughout Season 4 and early Season 5.
Other notable roles include Lorna Johnson in Truth or Dare (in which John Hannah also starred), Caroline Meagher in The Investigator (alongside Laura Fraser), and Julie Matthews in Curt Truninger's Dead by Monday.
She was nominated for another Scottish BAFTA in 1997 for her role as Lorna Johnson. Dead by Monday won the Angel Award for Best Film at the Monaco International Film Festival in 2003 and the Portland Festival of World Cinema award for best feature film in 2001.
She played Pandora Braithwaite in Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years in 2001 and "Maggie" in the multiple award-winning Bolse Vita. She also appeared in Saving Nellie, a physics programme running on Teachers TV. In 2007 to January 2008 she starred in Swimming with Sharks alongside Christian Slater at London's Vaudeville Theatre. In 2008 and 2009 she has also appeared in several TV adverts for Morrisons, a British supermarket chain.
In January 2011, she co-starred with Trevor Eve in the three-part ITV drama Kidnap and Ransom, filmed on location in South Africa. Later in the same year, she starred as DCI Marion Bettany in Val McDermid's radio crime drama Village SOS.
In 2010, Helen Baxendale appeared in the pilot episode of Dirk Gently as Susan Harmison. In 2012 she reprised her role in the second episode of the commissioned first and only series. She then appeared in the Inspector George Gently episode "The Lost Child" alongside Mark Gatiss.
From 2012 to 2019, she starred in Cuckoo as Lorna, the mother in-law of the titular Dale 'Cuckoo' Ashbrick. Then in 2020 she played housekeeper Meggie McGregor in Noughts + Crosses.
On-stage, Baxendale starred as Christine in Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, and in 2005 appeared as Romy, the eponymous title role in The Woman Before at the Royal Court alongside Nigel Lindsay, Saskia Reeves, Tom Riley and Georgia Taylor but has also played various roles including that of Ophelia in Hamlet (the Marovitz Hamlet) along with Henry Ian Cusick. For her 1993 performance in Soldiers at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, she was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award (best classical actor under 30). In 2009 Baxendale played Lara in Amongst Friends alongside Aden Gillett and Emma Cunniffe at Hampstead Theatre.
In 2008, Baxendale appeared in one episode of BBC radio comedy Cabin Pressure.
