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Helen Atkinson-Wood
Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.
Atkinson-Wood attended Beech Lane Primary School in Macclesfield, which closed in 1967. She is a former head girl of Macclesfield County High School for Girls. She grew up in Tytherington, Cheshire and has twin brothers Christopher and Peter.
She has been a horse rider for many years; aged 16, she fell off her pony and was unconscious for three days. It took two terms at school to learn to read and talk, and it affected her memory. Before moving to London, she lived in Siddington, Cheshire, near Congleton.
Atkinson-Wood studied fine art at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, where she performed with Rowan Atkinson (no relation). She also performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she met Ben Elton. Whilst at Oxford, she took part in an OUDS production of Richard II. Also in this production was Tim McInnerny, who played the lead. She later appeared together with McInnerny in an episode of Blackadder the Third.
Atkinson-Wood was a regular presenter of Central Television's short-lived O.T.T. and had a small role in the 1984 Young Ones episode "Nasty". She appeared as Mrs Miggins in Blackadder the Third.
She was the only regular female cast member on the radio comedy programme Radio Active, where she played Anna Daptor and other roles, and also participated in the programme's televisual equivalent, KYTV. She also appeared in the final episode of Joking Apart as a morning television presenter. In 2007, she guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio play I.D.. She played the role of Sybil Ramkin in a BBC radio adaptation of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.
Atkinson-Wood was a regular presenter for the Channel 4 series Collector's Lot and made guest appearances on programmes such as Call My Bluff. She was a guest in episode 9 of the C series of QI, when she answered a question deemed almost impossible by host Stephen Fry by correctly naming a chemical reaction equation as an explosion of custard powder, earning 200 points. This was because, she claimed, she had studied domestic science at school. Through answering this single question, she held the highest cumulative total of any QI panellist at the time (this is no longer the case - for example, in the K Series episode "Knowledge", Alan Davies scored 689.66 points).
While at grammar school in Macclesfield, Atkinson-Wood was friends with Ian Curtis.
Helen Atkinson-Wood
Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.
Atkinson-Wood attended Beech Lane Primary School in Macclesfield, which closed in 1967. She is a former head girl of Macclesfield County High School for Girls. She grew up in Tytherington, Cheshire and has twin brothers Christopher and Peter.
She has been a horse rider for many years; aged 16, she fell off her pony and was unconscious for three days. It took two terms at school to learn to read and talk, and it affected her memory. Before moving to London, she lived in Siddington, Cheshire, near Congleton.
Atkinson-Wood studied fine art at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, where she performed with Rowan Atkinson (no relation). She also performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she met Ben Elton. Whilst at Oxford, she took part in an OUDS production of Richard II. Also in this production was Tim McInnerny, who played the lead. She later appeared together with McInnerny in an episode of Blackadder the Third.
Atkinson-Wood was a regular presenter of Central Television's short-lived O.T.T. and had a small role in the 1984 Young Ones episode "Nasty". She appeared as Mrs Miggins in Blackadder the Third.
She was the only regular female cast member on the radio comedy programme Radio Active, where she played Anna Daptor and other roles, and also participated in the programme's televisual equivalent, KYTV. She also appeared in the final episode of Joking Apart as a morning television presenter. In 2007, she guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio play I.D.. She played the role of Sybil Ramkin in a BBC radio adaptation of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.
Atkinson-Wood was a regular presenter for the Channel 4 series Collector's Lot and made guest appearances on programmes such as Call My Bluff. She was a guest in episode 9 of the C series of QI, when she answered a question deemed almost impossible by host Stephen Fry by correctly naming a chemical reaction equation as an explosion of custard powder, earning 200 points. This was because, she claimed, she had studied domestic science at school. Through answering this single question, she held the highest cumulative total of any QI panellist at the time (this is no longer the case - for example, in the K Series episode "Knowledge", Alan Davies scored 689.66 points).
While at grammar school in Macclesfield, Atkinson-Wood was friends with Ian Curtis.