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Helen Ryan
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Helen Ryan
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-06-16,Liverpool, England, UK
Gender
Female
Biography
Helen Ryan (born June 16, 1938, in Liverpool, Lancashire) is a British actress, who is notable for playing several royal roles. The Liverpool native played Princess and then Queen Alexandra in the British television series Edward the Seventh, for which she received a BAFTA nomination in 1975. She also played Princess Alexandra in the 1980 movie The Elephant Man and the Sherlock Holmes story "The Mazarin Stone". She played another royal, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, in the 2002 television drama Bertie and Elizabeth. Her other credits include Madame Balzac in the TV series Prometheus: The Life of Balzac (1975), Mrs. McFarlane in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Norwood Builder", and films such as Clash of Loyalties (1983), Misunderstood (1984) and The Hawk (1993). More recently, Ryan has appeared as Peggy Roath, a personal aide to Queen Elizabeth II, in the fifth season of The Crown in 2022. In 2023, she appeared in the BBC soap opera Doctors as Thelma Scott. She was formerly married to the theatre director Guy Slater, with whom she had a daughter, Rebecca, and a son, Daniel.

Filmography

The Elephant Man

8.045

The Elephant Man
1980-10-09

5.508

Confetti
2006-05-05

6.7

Misunderstood
1984-03-30

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The Raisin
2017-05-05

Jenny Can't Work Any Faster

0

Jenny Can't Work Any Faster
1975-12-08

The Brides in the Bath

5.9

The Brides in the Bath
2003-12-31

Bertie and Elizabeth

5.6

Bertie and Elizabeth
2002-06-04

Saddam Goes to Hollywood

8

Saddam Goes to Hollywood
2016-07-24

Clash of Loyalties

5

Clash of Loyalties
1983-01-02

6

Crystalstone
1987-04-01

5.8

The Hawk
1993-12-03

0

The Lift
1965-09-24

5.2

Old Guy
2024-12-13

Sherlock Holmes

8.1

Sherlock Holmes
1984-04-24

2.6

Bella Block
1993-12-17

5.8

Van der Valk
1972-09-13

Edward the Seventh

6.9

Edward the Seventh
1975-04-01

3.5

Harry
1993-09-18

Sherlock Holmes

8.1

Sherlock Holmes
1984-04-24

8.2

The Crown
2016-11-04

6.8

Persuasion
1971-04-18

7

Heartbeat
1992-04-10

4.5

Fallen Angel
2007-03-11

My Brother Jonathan

5

My Brother Jonathan
1985-08-12

Midsomer Murders

7.5

Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23