- Born
- Birth nameAnne Isabel Helm
- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Born in Toronto, Anne Helm's entire Canadian "show biz" career consisted of playing "Alice in Wonderland" at camp and acting in a Christmas pantomime at Montreal's Her Majesty's Theatre. When she was 14, she and her mother relocated to New York, where Helm studied ballet and began modeling for John Robert Powers. The title role in a Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) TV production of "The Sleeping Beauty" lured her to the West Coast, where she landed roles in a succession of subsequent feature films and TV series (and was briefly Elvis Presley's main squeeze--on-screen and off). More recently billing herself as "Annie Helm", she is also a writer and illustrator of children's books.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpousesRobert Viharo(May 11, 1972 - March 5, 1980) (divorced, 1 child)John Sherlock(May 23, 1967 - October 1968) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- ParentsMiriam Isabel LightburneJohn Forrest Helm
- RelativesTiffany Helm(Niece or Nephew)Peter Helm(Sibling)David Francis(Half Sibling)
- At age 16 she was a showgirl at the famous Copacabana nightclub in New York City.
- Pictured on the cover of Tom Weaver's book "I Was a Monster Movie Maker" (McFarland & Co., 2001), and interviewed inside.
- Has two children: a son, Peter Sherlock (with writer John Sherlock) and a daughter, Serena Viharo (with Robert Viharo), who is also an actress and model.
- After her acting career ended in 1986, Helm started writing children's books, as Annie Helm. Prior to that, she worked as a teacher with an afternoon school program in Santa Monica, California.
- Older sister of Peter Helm.
- [on her career] I really just wanted to do wonderful parts and I wanted to be part of the creative stream. And I ended up doing a lot of roles I would probably have been better off not doing.
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