Helen Ryan
14 movies · 16 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 16, 1938 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Liverpool, England, UK
Biography
Helen Ryan (born June 16, 1938, in Liverpool, Lancashire) is a British actress, who is notable for playing several royal roles.
The Liverpool native played Princess and then Queen Alexandra in the British television series Edward the Seventh, for which she received a BAFTA nomination in 1975. She also played Princess Alexandra in the 1980 movie The Elephant Man and the Sherlock Holmes story "The Mazarin Stone". She played another royal, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, in the 2002 television drama Bertie and Elizabeth. Her other credits include Madame Balzac in the TV series Prometheus: The Life of Balzac (1975), Mrs. McFarlane in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Norwood Builder", and films such as Clash of Loyalties (1983), Misunderstood (1984) and The Hawk (1993). More recently, Ryan has appeared as Peggy Roath, a personal aide to Queen Elizabeth II, in the fifth season of The Crown in 2022. In 2023, she appeared in the BBC soap opera Doctors as Thelma Scott.
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She was formerly married to the theatre director Guy Slater, with whom she had a daughter, Rebecca, and a son, Daniel.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Helen Ryan: movies and TV shows
Acting (30)
- 2024 Old Guy
as Tory Dolinski
- 2017 The Raisin
as Woman at Door
- 2016
- 2016
- 2007
- 2006 Confetti
as Naturist Violinist
- 2003 The Brides in the Bath
as Mrs. Farraday
- 2002 Bertie and Elizabeth
as Queen Wilhelmina
- 1997
- 1994
- 1993
- 1993 The Hawk
as Mrs Crowther
- 1993
- 1992
- 1987 Crystalstone
as Aunt
- 1986 The Christmas Tree
as Mother
- 1985
- 1984
- 1984
- 1983 Misunderstood
as Lucy
- 1983 Clash of Loyalties
as Gertrude Bell
- 1981
- 1980 The Elephant Man
as Princess Alex
- 1980
- 1976
- 1975 Jenny Can't Work Any Faster
as Maureen
- 1975
- 1972
- 1971
- 1965 The Lift
as Margot