--- name: "Helen Fielding" canonical: "https://film.one/person/helen-fielding" fi1m_id: "helen-fielding" imdb_id: "nm0276144" tmdb_id: 9155 wikidata_id: "Q232359" roles: ["Writer","Producer"] born: "19 February 1958" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 67 average_as: "writer" average_over: 4 updated: "2026-10-05T14:03:55.044693+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Helen Fielding ## Identity Helen Fielding - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/helen-fielding - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** helen-fielding - **IMDb ID:** nm0276144 - **TMDB ID:** 9155 - **Wikidata ID:** Q232359 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Fielding, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232359, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276144/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9155 Writer and producer. Born 19 February 1958 in Morley. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Producer - **Born:** 19 February 1958, Morley - **Active:** 2001–present - **Frequently works with:** [Eric Fellner](https://film.one/person/eric-fellner.md), [Jim Broadbent](https://film.one/person/jim-broadbent.md), [Renée Zellweger](https://film.one/person/renee-zellweger.md), [Tim Bevan](https://film.one/person/tim-bevan.md), [Colin Firth](https://film.one/person/colin-firth.md), [Hugh Grant](https://film.one/person/hugh-grant.md), [Andrew Davies](https://film.one/person/andrew-davies.md), [Dan Mazer](https://film.one/person/dan-mazer.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as writer, over 4 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 64 (2), 2010s 71 (1), 2020s 70 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 64 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Genres:** Comedy 4, Romance 4, Drama 3 - **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $899m across 4 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Fielding, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232359, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0276144/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9155 ## Streaming the US now - **Hulu:** [*Bridget Jones's Diary*](https://film.one/film/bridget-joness-diary.md) (80), [*Bridget Jones's Baby*](https://film.one/film/bridget-joness-baby.md) (71), [*Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason*](https://film.one/film/bridget-jones-the-edge-of-reason.md) (48) - **Peacock:** [*Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy*](https://film.one/film/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy.md) (70) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Helen Fielding (born 19 February 1958) is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter. She grew up in Morley, West Yorkshire, and read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. After working at the BBC, she began her writing career with the novel *Cause Celeb* (1994). Fielding created the character Bridget Jones in an anonymous column for *The Independent* newspaper. This led to the novels *Bridget Jones's Diary* (1996), *Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason* (1999), *Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries* (2017) and *Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy* (2013). She wrote the screenplays for the film adaptations *Bridget Jones's Diary* (2001), *Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason* (2004), *Bridget Jones's Baby* (2016) and *Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy* (2025). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) - *Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy* (2025), Fi1m 70, Executive Producer, Novel, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy.md) - *Bridget Jones's Baby* (2016), Fi1m 71, Original Story, Screenplay, Characters, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/bridget-joness-baby.md) - *Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason* (2004), Fi1m 48, Screenplay, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/bridget-jones-the-edge-of-reason.md) - *Bridget Jones's Diary* (2001), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer, Novel, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/bridget-joness-diary.md) ## Complete filmography (6) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy* (2025), Novel, Executive Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy.md) - *Bridget Jones's Baby* (2016), Screenplay, Characters, Original Story, Executive Producer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/bridget-joness-baby.md) - *Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason* (2004), Novel, Screenplay — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/bridget-jones-the-edge-of-reason.md) - *Bridget Jones's Diary* (2001), Executive Producer, Novel, Screenplay — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/bridget-joness-diary.md) - *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Helen Fielding (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) - *The Tall Guy* (1989), Script Supervisor ## Gallery - ![Helen Fielding](https://film.one/media/person/8699/gallery-e9b1b9d1ad52.jpg) Helen Fielding — HFprofemail at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/HF-purple-with-chair.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Helen Fielding picture taken from an article of The Sun. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/8699/gallery-d1fc85215994.jpg) Helen Fielding picture taken from an article of The Sun. (2024) — ESHFHQ, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Helen_Fielding.jpg/1280px-Helen_Fielding.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2017: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Bridget Jones's Baby* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/helen-fielding