Helen Jessop

(****-****). Actress. Won the Gallery Club Award for best Actress in 1978. Performed in Move Over Mrs. Markham, That's No Lady That's My Husband, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, The Rape of the Belt, The Pay Off, Home at Seven, Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Middle Age Spread (for Pieter Toerien).(SACD 1977/78) (SACD 1979/80) (SACD 1980/81)

JESSOP, Helen. (19*-) Actress. ** She starred in Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy Relatively Speaking (for which she won the Dalro award for best actress), directed by John Hussey at The Market Theatre in 1978. It also starred Hussey, Andre Hattingh and John Rogers. She starred in The Company’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s How the Other Half Loves together with Kenneth Baker, Richard Haines and Yvonne Banning and directed by Graham Armitage at The Market in 1979. She starred in Middle Age Spread with Rex Garner and Eric Flynn. Pieter Toerien sponsored a tour of this play before it opened at the André Huguenet Theatre in October 1980. She starred in the PACT production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer together with Michael Atkinson, Stuart Brown, Kate Edwards and Gina Benjamin at the Alexander Theatre in June 1983. ***(Tucker, 1997)

How the Other Half Loves in 19** and Bedroom Farce for the Market Theatre; Middle Age Spread for Pieter Toerien; Phoebe in The Entertainer for PACT; played the role of Helen in Pack of Lies in 19** at the Market Theatre.

TV: leading part of Mary Debman in the series Settlers.

She was born in Sri Lanka and finished her education in London from where she graduated as an Associate of [[The Guidlhall School of Music and Drama and a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music.

Sources

Pack of Lies programme notes of the run at the Market Theatre in 19**.

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