Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 16, 1938
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Credits
30 titles
Helen Ryan
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. She was formerly married to the theatre director Guy Slater, with whom she had a daughter, Rebecca, and a son, Daniel.
Known For
Filmography
Old Guy
Tory Dolinski
The Raisin
Woman at Door
The Crown
Queen's Dresser
Saddam Goes to Hollywood
Fallen Angel
Angel's Neighbor
Confetti
Naturist Violinist
The Brides in the Bath
Mrs. Farraday
Bertie and Elizabeth
Queen Wilhelmina
Midsomer Murders
Mrs. Hilliard
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Princess of Wales
Bella Block
Meredith Walters
The Hawk
Mrs Crowther
Harry
Lady Jenvey
Heartbeat
Betty Hawkins
Crystalstone
Aunt
The Christmas Tree
Mother
My Brother Jonathan
Lavinia Dakers
Sherlock Holmes
Princess of Wales
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Mrs McFarlane
Misunderstood
Lucy
Clash of Loyalties
Gertrude Bell
My Father's House
Celia Blake
The Elephant Man
Princess Alex
Hannah
Hannah Mole
The Duchess of Duke Street
Olive Bradford
Jenny Can't Work Any Faster
Maureen
Edward the Seventh
Princess Alexandra
Van der Valk
Eva Maris
Persuasion
Mrs. Harville
The Lift
Margot