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Helen Atkinson-Wood
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Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955) is an English actress and comedian.
Helen Atkinson-Wood was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Cheshire, and was a childhood friend of singer-songwriter Ian Curtis. She studied fine art at Oxford University. She performed comedy with Rowan Atkinson, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where she met Ben Elton.
Atkinson-Wood is probably most famous for her role as Mrs. Miggins in television's Blackadder but was also a prominent member of the cult radio comedy programme Radio Active, where she played the role of Anna Daptor, reprised in the televisual equivalent of Radio-Active, KYTV. She also appeared in the final episode of Joking Apart as a morning television presenter, had a cameo in the 1984 Young Ones episode "Nasty" and was a regular presenter of Central Television's controversial O.T.T..
She has been a regular presenter for the Channel 4 series Collector's Lot. She has also made guest appearances on programmes such as Call My Bluff. She holds the record for the highest score in a single episode of QI, with 200 points, gained from one question on the chemistry of exploding custard.
She is married to writer John Morton.
