Helen Anker

Helen Anker, born in 1972 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, is an actress and singer who trained at the Royal Ballet School and Bird College. She is best known for playing Zelda Fitzgerald in the West End musical "Beautiful and Damned" [http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/musical/cast/biography_helen_anker.asp] , a role she first played at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford before transferring to London's West End.

Her first professional role came at the age of nine in 1981 when she played Louisa in "The Sound of Music" with Petula Clark at London's Apollo Theatre [http://www.helenanker.com/page1/page1.html] .

Anker's other roles include Judy Turner in "A Chorus Line" at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, Vera and Patsy in "Crazy For You" at the Prince Edward Theatre, Victoria the White Cat, Jemima and Demeter in "Cats" at the New London Theatre, Thelma Furness in "Always" at the Victoria Palace Theatre, Louisa Gradgrind in "Hard Times" at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Aggie in "Oklahoma!" at the National Theatre, and Iris in "Fame" at the Cambridge Theatre. [http://www.gavinbarkerassociates.co.uk/actresses/helen-anker.htm]

Her television appearances include "Holby City" for the BBC.

External links

* [http://www.helenanker.com/ Helen Anker's website]
* [http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/musical/cast/biography_helen_anker.asp Anker's bio on the 'Beautiful and Damned' website]
* [http://www.eno.org/onthetown/cast_helenanker.html Anker on the 'On The Town' website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0030156/ Anker on the] Internet Movie Database