Biography

Helen Lloyd was born in North Wales but moved to live in Nottinghamshire at the age of 5.

After training as an actor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the late 1960s, she spent the next fourteen years 'treading the boards' in theatres across the UK. Memorable roles include Amanda in 'Private Lives', Eliza Doolittle in 'Pymalion', Julie in 'Miss Julie' at the Roundhouse Studio, Ruth in 'The Norman Conquests', Joanna in 'Present Laughter, 'Ellida in 'The Lady from the Sea', Elma in 'Canaries Sometimes Sing' at the Watermill Theatre, The Wicked Witch of the West in 'The Wizard of Oz' at Liverpool Playhouse and Mollie Ralston in the 29th year of 'The Mousetrap' at St Martin's Theatre in the West End.

Helen made the move into television in the early 1980s when she became one of the faces and voices of Central television when they were awarded the ITV franchise for the Midands. Helen became one of the team of continuity announcers. It was at this time that she also began doing corporate voice over work as well as being a regular voice on numerous Central programmes. As an announcer, she became particularly well known for her infamous 'Hyperdemic Nurdle' blooper, which featured in several 'It'll be Alright on the Night' programmes!

A lucky chance gave Helen the opportunity to move behind the cameras at Central in the late 1980s and she began as a researcher working on social action programmes and was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to Australia in 1988. On her return, she moved into the factual programme department at ITV Central where she produced programmes for three series of Waterworld with Timothy West, as well as programmes for two series of 'Top to Toe' with Denise Welch and Julia Carling, and programmes for two archive series '50 Years of. . .' and '50 Years of The Queen'. Her programme on the Silver Jubilee was awarded a Houston Filmfest special jury award.

Helen was also much in demand during this period as a freelance narrator, being the voice of a large number of documentaries for On Digital, ITV Central and Carlton.

After taking redundancy from ITV in 2003, Helen became a freelance producer and narrator. She is married to actor Ben Roberts and they have a grown up son.
- IMDb mini biography by: Helen Lloyd