Helen Worth
Helen Worth was born in Leeds, England, United Kingdom on January 7th, 1951 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 73, Helen Worth biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Helen Worth (born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth; 7 January 1951) is an English actress.
She is known for portraying the role of Gail Platt in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, a role that she has played since 1974.
For her 40 years on the show, she received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2014 British Soap Awards.
Early life
Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth was born to Alfred and Gladys Wigglesworth in Ossett and grew up in Morecambe, Lancashire. She was brought up in a middle-class family and attended private school. When she was eight her parents fostered Ghanaian-born Wilson Kpikpitse, who was sent to England as an overseas student at the age of eleven and remained with the family for eight years, but moved on following the death of Worth's mother, who was killed in a hit-and-run road accident while she was on a visit to Brighton.
Personal life
Worth has a house in London. She married Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends narrator Michael Angelis in 1991. Worth forgave Angelis when he admitted to an affair in 1995, but they divorced in 2001 after he had another affair with model Jennifer Khalastchi. Following this, it was mistakenly reported by The Sun newspaper that Worth was dating London restaurant owner Simon Hopkinson.
Worth is a patron of the Born Free Foundation, an international wildlife charity working throughout the world to stop individual wild animal suffering and protect threatened species in the wild. She appeared on television fronting campaigns and joined them at the House of Commons in 2006, to speak about the proposed changes to the Animal Welfare Bill and campaign for the retirement of Anne, the UK's last remaining circus elephant.
She is a supporter of the charity ActionAid and has visited Sierra Leone in support of its work there.
Career
Worth spent a year with the BBC Radio repertory company after graduating from drama school. Oliver has had uncredited bit-parts in the films! (1968) and The Prime Minister of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), as well as television in the Doctor Who story Colony in Space (1971). Helen Cooper, Dr. Helen: A Woman of Today (1974), within These Walls (1974). She joined Coronation Street in 1974 and has been with the soap since then.
Worth has stated that she does not intend to leave Coronation Street, saying she is content with Gail's never-ending drama and that it is a career she adores. Worth said in an interview with GMTV in January 2010, she adored Gail's plotlines and praised the writers for giving her some great plots over the years, which she hopes will continue. On June 9, 2014, a one-off special about Worth, Gail & Me, aired on ITV. Worth's 40 years as Gail was commemorated in this 30-minute film.