Helen Baxendale

Helen Baxendale is an English actress who has worked in television and on stage. She grew up in Shenstone, Staffordshire, and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before working at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre from 1992 to 1995. Her early stage role in The Soldiers brought a 1993 Ian Charleson Award nomination. On television she played Dr Claire Maitland in Cardiac Arrest, earning a 1995 Scottish BAFTA nomination, and Rachel Bradley in Cold Feet, which led to a British Comedy Award nomination. She played Emily Waltham in the American sitcom Friends. Other credits include Cordelia Gray in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Julie Matthews in Dead by Monday (2001), and Lorna in Cuckoo. In 2020 she appeared in Noughts + Crosses. At the Monaco International Film Festival, Dead by Monday took the Angel Award for Best Film, and it also earned a best feature prize from the Portland Festival of World Cinema.