Helen Noble

Helen Noble as Abby Davies in Hollyoaks

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

  1. Riazat Butt, "Hollyoaks' Helen happy to play panto dame" Manchester Evening News CityLife, 21 December 2004 (accessed 18 September 2012)
  2. "The good, the bad and the beanstalk" BBC Devon, 23 December 2005 (accessed 18 September 2012)
  3. Hollyoaks star goes homeless at Halton YMCA
  4. David Munro, "The Safari Party - Richmond Theatre (Review)", indieLONDON, no date (accessed 18 September 2012)
  5. The Safari Party
  6. 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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