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Helen may refer to:

• Helen of Troy, from Greek mythology
• Helen (given name)
• Helen (play), a play by Euripides
• Helen (Inheritance), a fictional supporting character in Christopher Paolini's Inheritance trilogy
• Helen (film), a 2009 drama starring Ashley Judd and directed by Sandra Nettelbeck
• Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet, a webcomic
• Helen (unit), a humorous unit of measuring beauty
• Helen (album), a Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes
• Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city
• Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place
• Helen Falls, a waterfall in Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Temagami, Ontario, Canada
• Helen Jairag Richardson, known as Helen, a Bollywood actress and dancer

See also[link]

• Elena (name)
• Eleni (disambiguation)
• Helena (disambiguation)
• Helene (disambiguation)
• Hélène (disambiguation)
• Ellen (disambiguation)
• Hellen, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the ancestor of the Greeks
• Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy
• Saint Helena (disambiguation), people and places called Saint Helena
• Julia (daughter of Drusus the Younger), nicknamed "Helen" in Robert Graves' Claudius novels

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Helen Jane Long (born April 10, 1974) is a British composer, musician and pianist, best known for various advertisement contracts, her work on several film projects in a variety of genres, and, most recently, her contemporary-classic piano album, Embers (2010) (BLE) and Porcelain (Warner Music Group). In 2003, Long worked as music assistant to Howard Shore on the film score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.^[3] Long composed the original music for the movie thrillers The Only Hotel and Surveillance 24/7.^[4]

Early life, education[link]

Long was born on April 10, 1974 in Hampshire, England.^[1] She began training as a classical pianist at age 4,^[5] moving on to also learn clarinet, guitar, cello, vocals, organ, and violin.^[2]

Long began composing when she entered college. However, frustrated with the progression of her music degree, she claims she spent her entire student loan on a huge sequencer keyboard. She then slowly continued to amass the equipment needed for a fully operational home recording studio. There she independently practiced recording, producing, scoring, arranging, and mixing.^[5]

Career[link]

After college Long began working for the BBC on the children's shows Blue Peter and Live & Kicking, where she periodically worked with Ronnie Hazlehurst (composer for Only Fools and Horses), Dennis King of Black Beauty, and Nigel Hess (composer of the film Ladies in Lavender). She has also worked with composers Jerry Goldsmith and Ron Goodwin. She was signed to a major label soon after sending out demos of her material.^[5] Long has since written scores, piano pieces, and full orchestrations for many films and television spots.^[6]

In 2003 Long served as a music score assistant for composer Howard Shore on the historic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, as well as the extended DVDs.^[4][7] Long, who had met Shore before the films, served essentially as his personal copy editor for the sheet music he wrote daily for new scenes.^[1][3] She was also known on set for reliably supplying brownies and pancakes.^[3]

She is well known for scoring the often played Volkswagen Passat commercials^[3] in 2005.^[4] Since 2005 she has scored a large amount of for-television documentaries on Channel 4, Channel 5, the Discovery Channel, and the BBC, including Behind the Da Vinci Code and Open Gardens in 2008. She has also scored several short films and the feature films The Only Hotel and Surveillance (2007).^[4][5] She has done several recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, notably in 2007 when she worked with them to compose and record a music CD of orchestral music.^[4][8]

Solo Releases[link]

Porcelain (2007)

Long released her debut album Porcelain on July 24, 2007^[1][5] on Warner Classics.^[4] The album is a collection of original piano compositions, many in a classically expressive and filmic style.^[5] Besides Long on piano, the recording sessions also included musicians Jonathan Hill and Nick Holland.^[1] The cello used in the recordings was handmade by Long's father.^[5] As of February 1, 2010, Porcelain was the top selling album on America's largest classical radio station,^[2] and she secured a sell-out tour of the United States.^[8]

Embers (2010)

On May 3, 2010 Long released her second piano album Embers with BLE Music Group.^[6][9] The album quickly became widely requested on worldwide classical radio stations, and was "most requested" on Classic FM radio.^[10][11]

Awards[link]

Long was Radio Classic FM's Guest List Composer in 2007.^[11] She was also selected as Audio Network's Composer of the Month for February 2010.^[2]

Personal life[link]

Helen Long still lives in the south east of the United Kingdom,^[4] where she is an avid water-skier and triathlete.^[5]

Discography[link]

Scoring history[link]

Albums[link]

• Porcelain (2007)
• Embers (2010)

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Interview on Classic FM (UK access only)

External links[link]

Helen Joyce Flanagan (born 7 August 1990^[1]) is an English actress best known for playing Rosie Webster in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.^[2]

Flanagan has played Rosie Webster in Coronation Street since 2000, when she was ten years old. In the 2006 British Soap Awards, Flanagan was nominated for the Best Dramatic Performance from a Young Actor or Actress, losing to Ellis Hollins. In 2007, she was nominated for "Villain of the Year" at the same awards, losing out to Jack P. Shepherd, who plays David Platt in Coronation Street.

In October 2011, Flanagan announced that she will be leaving Coronation Street in February 2012.^[3]

Flanagan is presently dating Swansea City footballer Scott Sinclair.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Helen Flanagan at the Internet Movie Database

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Helen Hunt
Hunt in 2011
Born	Helen Elizabeth Hunt (1963-06-15) June 15, 1963 (age 49) Culver City, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, director, screenwriter
Years active	1973–present
Spouse	Hank Azaria (1999–2000); divorced
Partner	Matthew Carnahan (2001–present)

Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress, film director, and screenwriter. She starred in the sitcom, Mad About You, for seven years before being cast in the 1997 romantic comedy film, As Good as It Gets for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Some of her other Hollywood credits include Twister, Cast Away, What Women Want, Pay It Forward, and Soul Surfer. She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me.

Early life[link]

Hunt was born in Culver City, California. Her mother, Jane Elizabeth (née Novis), worked as a photographer; and her father, Gordon E. Hunt, is a film director and acting coach.^[1] Her uncle, Peter H. Hunt, also is a director. Her paternal grandmother was from a German Jewish family, and her maternal grandfather was born in England.^[2][3] Her Iowa-born maternal grandmother, Dorothy Fries (née Anderson), was a voice coach.^[4] When she was three, Hunt's family moved to New York City, where her father directed theatre (Hunt attended plays as a child several times a week).^[5] Hunt studied ballet, and attended UCLA.^[5][6][7]

Career[link]

Hunt began working as a child actress in the 1970s.^[5] Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, alongside Lindsay Wagner in an episode of The Bionic Woman, and a regular role in the television series The Swiss Family Robinson.^[5] She appeared as a marijuana-smoking classmate on an episode of The Facts of Life. Hunt also played a young woman who, while on PCP, jumps out of a second-story window, in a 1982 after school special called Desperate Lives (a scene which she mocked during a Saturday Night Live monologue in 1994).^[8] That same year, Hunt was cast on the ABC sitcom It Takes Two, which lasted a single season. In the mid-1980s, she had a recurring role on St. Elsewhere as Clancy Williams, girlfriend of Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison. She played Jennie in the television movie Bill: On His Own, co-starring Mickey Rooney. She also starred in the 1985 film Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Shannen Doherty.

Hunt in 1994, before the Emmy rehearsal

In the 1990s, after playing the lead female role in the short-lived My Life and Times, Hunt starred in the series Mad About You, winning Emmy Awards for her performances in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.^[5] In 1998, Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Carol Connelly in the movie As Good as It Gets; the character is a waitress and single mother who finds herself falling in love with Melvin Udall, an obsessive-compulsive romance novelist played by Jack Nicholson.^[5] After winning the Academy Award, she took time off from movie work to play Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at Lincoln Center in New York.^[9]

In 2000, Hunt starred in four films: Dr. T & the Women, with Richard Gere; Pay It Forward, with Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment; What Women Want, with Mel Gibson; and Cast Away, with Tom Hanks.^[5] In 2003, she returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's Life x 3.^[9] In 2006, Hunt appeared in the ensemble cast film Bobby alongside Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone and William H. Macy.

Hunt directed several episodes of Mad About You, including the series finale. Her big-screen directorial debut came with the film Then She Found Me, in which she also starred, with Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick.^[1]

She currently owns a production company with Connie Tavel, Hunt/Tavel Productions under Sony Pictures Entertainment.^[1]

Personal life[link]

Hunt was married to actor Hank Azaria from 1999 until 2000.^[1] She has been in a relationship with producer/writer/director Matthew Carnahan since 2001. They have a daughter, Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan, born on May 13, 2004.^[1][10]

Filmography and awards[link]

Hunt has been recognized extensively in her career. In 1998 she won a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year. Hunt was nominated for an Emmy Award for lead actress in a comedy seven years in a row, from 1993 through 1999, winning in the last four years.^[11]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Helen Hunt at the Internet Movie Database
• Helen Hunt at the Internet Broadway Database
• Helen Hunt at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Helen Hunt at AllRovi
• Helen Hunt at Yahoo! Movies

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Abigail Marie "Abbey" Crouch (née Clancy; born 10 January 1986) is a British lingerie and catwalk model and television presenter. She is the wife of footballer Peter Crouch.

Early life[link]

Born in Liverpool, the oldest of four children born to Karen (née Sullivan) and Geoffrey Thomas Clancy, Clancy formed girl band Genie Queen, who were managed by Andy McCluskey from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).^[1]

Career[link]

Modelling[link]

In summer 2006, the second cycle of Living TV's Britain's Next Top Model included Clancy as one of the thirteen finalists in the competition, competing over 10 weeks for a modelling contract. Clancy made it to the final runway show with fellow contestant Lianna Fowler, but at the final judging Clancy lost out to Fowler.

Since appearing on Britain's Next Top Model, Clancy has modeled for several magazines and newspapers. In May 2007, Clancy appeared on the front cover of Arena magazine,^[2] and modelled the Triumph Bonneville Motorbike in the Daily Mail newspaper.^{[3] [4]} Clancy was chosen to appear in Sports Illustrated magazine in the 2010 swimsuit edition.^[5] Clancy was featured for her sporting connection to Peter Crouch and was photographed for the magazine wearing only body paint to make it appear as if she was wearing an England shirt.^[6][7][8]

Clancy appeared in a 2010 campaign for Umbro sportswear, modelling an England shirt, along with other footballer's wives and girlfriends from countries that have won the World Cup.^[9]

Clancy walked in the Giles Deacon Ready-To-Wear line Giles Spring 2011 collection.^[10]

In March 2011 Clancy appeared on the Elite Model Management: New York division website. She also graced the August 2011 cover of UK Esquire shot by photographer Solve Sundsbo.

Television[link]

Clancy has appeared as a talking head in the documentaries Slave to Fashion and The Ultimate Bikini Guide for Channel 4, as a guest on programmes such as Richard & Judy, The Chris Moyles Show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, GMTV, This Morning and in her own reality TV series Abbey and Janice: Beauty and the Best which followed her attempts to break the Los Angeles modelling scene with Janice Dickinson as her mentor. The show aired from 14 May to 18 June 2007 on Living TV.

Clancy featured in the third series of Hell's Kitchen.^[11] She was the third contestant to be voted off the show by the public, and the fifth to leave overall.

On 10 May 2009, Clancy featured on Chris Moyles' Quiz Night alongside Patsy Kensit. She won her episode and was the overall winner of the first series.^[12]

Clancy also co-hosted the ITV2 series, The Fashion Show with model Michelle de Swarte and George Lamb.^[13] Her cousin Chloe Cummings, made the top 13 contestants in the fifth cycle of Britain's Next Top Model, of which Clancy herself was a guest in episode 8, being the first ex-contestant from the Top Model franchise to appear on the judging panel.

On 22 December 2009, Clancy appeared as a "contestant" on a spoof version of Blind Date as part of an episode of Alan Carr: Chatty Man in which Cilla Black was a guest.

In April 2010, Clancy was featured in ITV2's The Parent Trip along with her mother Karen. She also appeared as a panellist on A League Of Their Own.

Clancy was a regular guest on James Corden's World Cup Live.

She also co-hosted the reality TV show Great British Hairdresser in 2011.

Media recognition[link]

Clancy was ranked 37th in FHM magazine's annual 100 sexiest women in the world poll of 2007 but dropped down to number 55 the following year.^[14] In 2009, Clancy had moved up to 12th place,^[15] and in 2010 she went up to 10th place in the annual poll.^[16][17][18]

Personal life[link]

Abbey Clancy's brother Sean is a professional football player, now with Fleetwood Town in the Conference National.^[19]

Clancy started dating footballer Peter Crouch in 2006. The couple were engaged from July 2009^[20] and their daughter Sophia Ruby was born 14 March 2011. On 30 June 2011, Clancy and Crouch married at Stapleford Park Hotel in Leicestershire.^[21]

References[link]