Famous People with Name Helen

Helen Galloway McNicoll            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Galloway McNicoll: was a Canadian impressionist painter.she became deaf in childhood as the result of scarlet fever. She attended the Art Association of Montreal, studying under William Brymner from 1899. In 1902 she moved to England to study in London at the Slade School and later in St Ives, Cornwall with Algernon Talmadge.A member of the Royal Society of British Artists and an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, she died in Swanage, Dorset, where she had made her home, aged only thirty six. An obituary described her as "one of the most profoundly original and technically accomplished of Canadian artists".

Helen Hennessy Vendler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Hennessy Vendler: is a leading American critic of poetry.Vendler has written books on W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats and Seamus Heaney. She is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, where she has had a position since 1981. She has taug

Helen King            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen King: a Canadian actress working in theatre, film and TV as an actor, voice artist, puppeteer & singer.King graduated from Queen's University Department of Drama in 1994, moving to Montreal in 1995. As well as acting for independent local companies, King worked for Centaur Theatre, Geordie Productions, Just for Laughs Theatre and Theatre Lac Brome.For a-year-and-a-half, King played the cotton ball-like lead role in Me Too! on CBC Television. She starred as the voices of Fumiko & Lisa in Discovery Kids' Jacques Cousteau's Ocean Tales, was narrator for the acclaimed documentary "Black Coffee" and the travel series Rails of Adventure and was a guest voice on several other voice series including "Totally Spies", Arthur, Creepschool, Mona the Vampire, and Potatoes & Dragons. She relocated to Toronto in early 2006, continuing her voice-over career in various animation and commercial projects. She has recently received widespread attention for taking over the role of Farah in The Two Thrones, the latest installment in Ubisoft's popular Prince of Persia video game series.

Helen Ward            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Ward: was an American singer of swing music. Her father had taught her piano, and she appeared on radio broadcasts with WOR and WNYC. She also worked as a staff musician at WNYC.

Helen Myrl Carter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Helen Myrl Carter: was an American country music singer. She was a member of the Carter Family.Helen Carter's mother was Maybelle Carter. She performed with her mother and sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. She had