Helen Morse

Helen Morse is an English-born Australian actress whose screen and stage career began after she completed her studies at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1965 and trained in Sydney with Brian Syron. Born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England, she moved to Australia with her family in 1950. She won the Australian Film Institute's best actress award for Caddie (1976) and led the 1981 miniseries A Town Like Alice. Her films include Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and The Eye of the Storm (2011), along with Agatha (1979) and Far East (1982). On television she appeared in three episodes of The Doctor Blake Mysteries between 2014 and 2016. Morse has worked in more than ninety theater productions with companies such as the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company. Her performance as Nancy in Frozen brought a Helpmann Award nomination, and she won a Green Room Award in 2020 for 33 Variations.