Helen Noble
Helen Noble (born in Wigan) is a British actress best known for her role as Abby Davies in the British soap opera Hollyoaks from 2000 to 2004, with a brief return in 2005. Helen attended Wigan's Willpower Youth Theatre as a teenager and it was through this and their links with Intercity Casting that she got her first audition to play Abby in "Holloaks".
After leaving Hollyoaks, she appeared in pantomime[1] and in 2004 appeared on a celebrity version of The Weakest Link dressed as her pantomime character from Dick Whittington.
In the 2005–06 pantomime season she appeared as Princess Apricot Crumble in Jack & the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal, Plymouth.[2]
In February 2006, she fronted a bid to promote the work of the Halton Drug Action Team and its partner agencies in Widnes and Runcorn by living 'homeless' in the Halton YMCA.[3]
In April 2006, she appeared alongside Sara Crowe in The Safari Party at Richmond Theatre[4] and toured the UK with the same play.[5]
In September 2007, it was announced that, along with her former Hollyoaks colleague Sarah Jayne Dunn and the theatre actor Graham Tudor, she would be teaching students at a new acting school in Liverpool.[6] named TrEAD: TRaining in Expressive Arts and Drama.
On 6 January 2010, Noble appeared on BBC2's Ready Steady Cook with Sarah Jayne Dunn.
References
- ^ Riazat Butt, "Hollyoaks' Helen happy to play panto dame" Manchester Evening News CityLife, 21 December 2004 (accessed 18 September 2012)
- ^ "The good, the bad and the beanstalk" BBC Devon, 23 December 2005 (accessed 18 September 2012)
- ^ Hollyoaks star goes homeless at Halton YMCA Archived 2007-10-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ David Munro, "The Safari Party – Richmond Theatre (Review)", indieLONDON, no date (accessed 18 September 2012)
- ^ The Safari Party Archived 2007-04-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Vicky Anderson, "TV and theatre veteran Paul Nicholas opens new Liverpool acting school for aspiring youngsters", Liverpool Daily Post, 5 September 2007 (accessed 18 September 2012)
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