Helen Horton

Helen Horton was an American actress who worked extensively in British television, radio and theater after a brief early career in New York City. Born in Chicago on November 21, 1923, she attended Northwestern University, where she earned a good reputation in the drama department and played Viola in a student production of Twelfth Night. In 1945 she moved to New York and found work at the Blackfriars Theatre in Seven Mirrors. She later took over from Vivien Leigh as Blanche when the London run of A Streetcar Named Desire toured the United Kingdom. Her screen work included the voice of Mother, the ship's computer, in Alien (1979). Horton died in 2007.