Helen King (actress)

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Helen King
Born (1972-03-01) 1 March 1972 (age 51)
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Citizenship
  • Scotland
  • Canada
Education Queen's University
OccupationActress

Helen King (born 1 March 1972) is a Scottish-born Canadian actress and puppeteer. [1]

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Biography

King graduated from Queen's University Department of Drama in 1994, moving to Montreal, Quebec 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.[ citation needed ] 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 received widespread attention for taking over the role of Farah in The Two Thrones , an installment in Ubisoft's popular Prince of Persia video game series. She has acted in the movies Still Life, Wedding Night , and The Ghosts of Dickens' Past. [2] [3]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

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References

  1. "Helen King". Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  2. "Helen King" (PDF). Fountain Head Talent. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. Terrace 2008, pp. 640, 847.

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