---
name: "Helena Smee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/helena-smee"
fi1m_id: "helena-smee"
tmdb_id: 2820513
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T20:51:52.436805+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."
---

# Helena Smee

## Identity

Helena Smee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/helena-smee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** helena-smee
- **TMDB ID:** 2820513
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2820513

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Active:** 1996–2019
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 73 (1), 2010s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2820513

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance*](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Helena Smee is a British puppeteer, puppet maker and writer. Her work has appeared on screen for over thirty years, during which she has designed and built more than eighty puppets.

She performed as an additional Muppet performer in *Muppet Treasure Island* (1996) and *Muppets Most Wanted* (2014). She is credited as Various Characters (puppet) on the series *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* (2019). She is married to fellow puppeteer Marcus Clarke, with whom she founded the company Hands Up Puppets.

*Sources: imdb.com, muppet.fandom.com, uk.linkedin.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* (2019), Fi1m 76, as Various Characters (puppet) — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md)
- *Muppet Treasure Island* (1996), Fi1m 73, as Additional Muppet Performer — [page](https://film.one/film/muppet-treasure-island.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Milkshake! Monkey Rhymes* (2023), series, as Milkshake! Monkey
- *Milkshake! Monkey's Amazing Adventures* (2019), series, as Milkshake! Monkey
- *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* (2019), series, as Various Characters (puppet) — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dark-crystal-age-of-resistance.md)
- *Milkshake! Monkey: Bananas About Food* (2018), series, as Milkshake! Monkey
- *Milkshake! Monkey* (2009), series, as Milkshake Monkey
- *The Milky and Shake Show* (2008), series, as Shake
- *The Milkshake! Show* (2007), series, as Shake
- *Muppet Treasure Island* (1996), as Additional Muppet Performer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/muppet-treasure-island.md)

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