Biography
Helen Atkinson-Wood is an English actress and comedian. She was born on 14 March 1955 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire.
She studied fine art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, where she performed with Rowan Atkinson. She appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she met Ben Elton, and took part in an OUDS production of Richard II alongside Tim McInnerny. Atkinson-Wood played Mrs Miggins in Blackadder the Third (1987) and had a small role in The Young Ones (1984). She was a regular cast member on the radio comedy Radio Active and its television version KYTV.
