Biography

Helen Moulder was born in Brightwater, Nelson

Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay, and is the economic and cultural centre of the Nelson-Tasman region. Established in 1841, it is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island....

, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

  in 1947. However she began her professional career in the UK in 1974, singing in musicals and pantomime and spending a year with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was a professional light opera company that staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas. The company performed nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere, from the 1870s until it closed in 1982. It was revived in 1988 and...

. In 1977 she returned to New Zealand where she has worked for several decades as an actor in theatre, as well as television, and film. In 2000 she won Actress of the Year in the Chapman Tripp Wellington Theatre Awards for her role as Vivian Bearing in the Circa Production of Wit and did the same in 2003 for Sylvia in Meeting Karpovsky a play she produced with Sir Jon Trimmer

Jon Trimmer

Sir Jon Charles Trimmer, KNZM, MBE is a New Zealand ballet dancer who has been with the New Zealand Ballet Company in 1958-59 and 1970 to the present .-Early life:Trimmer was born on 18 September 1939 in Petone, New Zealand...

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Theatre

Her recent theatre roles in New Zealand include her three plays where she plays the comedy role of Cynthia Fortitude: A Vote for Cynthia, and The Legend Returns. She has also played Madam Giry in Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera in Japan, Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....

 in Vita and Virginia.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Pictures	Lydia Burton
1984	Out of Time		TV movie
1985	Dangerous Orphans
1986	Undercover Gang	Mrs. Chalmers
1986	Seekers	Judith	Episode: "The Apocalypse Is Now"
1990		Black's Mother	Episode: "Mars Is Heaven"
1992	Absent Without Leave	Ed's Aunt
1992		Mrs. Brabbam	Episode: "Great Wide World Over There"
1994	Rugged Gold	Doris	TV movie
1997	Aberration Aberration (film) Aberration is a 1997 film directed by Tim Boxell. It was set in the United States and shot in New Zealand, and stars Pamela Gidley as a woman who moves to her old childhood cabin in the woods, only to discover that it is over run by a pack of murderous lizards-like creatures.-Synopsis:Amy Harding ...	Mrs. Miller
1998		High Priest	Episode: "The Secret Mountain"
1999	Duggan Duggan (TV series) Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan. Unlike other New Zealand police drama series, Duggan was produced as a series of one-off programmes, akin to British crime series of the time such as...	Jean Goodman	Episode: "Going Overboard"
2006		Mrs. Brand	Episode: "1.5"
2010	Sweet As	Nana	Short film
2011	Rest for the Wicked	Margaret	Post-production

External links

• Willow Productions