ACTOR
Helen Worth
- Known for
- Coronation Street (1960)
20 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
Helen Worth is an actor best known for Coronation Street.
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- #001
Helen Worth is one of the Coronation Street (1960) actors who have won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Soap Awards. The others are William Roache, Barbara Knox, Johnny Briggs, Elizabeth Dawn, Betty Driver, William Tarmey, Anne Kirkbride, Sue Nicholls and David Neilson.
- #002
Helen Worth is only eight years younger than Sue Nicholls, who plays her mother in Coronation Street (1960).
- #003
Helen Worth married her long-term partner, head teacher Trevor Dawson, at St James's Church in Piccadilly, London, wearing a unique silver wedding dress. Worth walked down the aisle alone and the reception was held at The Ritz. Her Coronation Street (1960) co-stars Sue Nicholls, Ben Price, Jack P. Shepherd, Jane Danson, Barbara Knox, Sally Dynevor, David Neilson, Shobna Gulati, Jennie McAlpine, Alison King, Antony Cotton, Ryan Thomas and Michelle Collins attended the event.
- #004
Helen Worth's mother, Gladys Wigglesworth (née Nicholls), died in 1971 at the age of 49 after being involved in a hit-and-run.
- #005
Helen Worth has an older brother named Neville Wigglesworth (b. 1946).
- #006
Helen Worth's Coronation Street (1960) character Gail Rodwell is a mother and grandmother, whereas Worth has no children in real life.
- #007
Helen Worth moved to London, England, at the age of fifteen to continue her acting career.
- #008
Helen Worth grew up in her grandmother's boarding house in Morecambe, Lancashire, where she was captivated by the music hall stars who stayed there.
- #009
Helen Worth's Coronation Street (1960) character Gail Tilsley became the fifth woman to give birth in the soap. Gail had a son, Nick (first played by Warren Jackson and later by Ben Price), born on 31 December 1980; a daughter, Sarah-Louise (first played by Lynsay King and later by Tina O'Brien), born on 2 February 1987; and a son, David (originally played by Thomas Ormson and later by Jack P. Shepherd), born on 25 December 1990.
- #010
Helen Worth attended the wedding of Dame Joan Collins and Percy Gibson.
- #011
Helen Worth's Lifetime Achievement Award at The British Soap Awards 2014 (2014) was presented by former Coronation Street (1960) lead actor Brian Capron. Capron's character, Richard Hillman, was the husband of Worth's character Gail Rodwell in the series.
- #012
Helen Worth is a patron of the Born Free Foundation, an international wildlife charity working worldwide to stop the suffering of individual wild animals and protect threatened species in the wild. In 2006 she took part in and joined television pre-campaigns in the House of Commons to speak about amendments to the Animal Welfare Bill and the campaign for the retirement of Anne, the last remaining circus elephant in the United Kingdom. She is also a supporter of the charity ActionAid and has visited Sierra Leone to support its work there.
- #013
Helen Worth's first television appearance was in Z Cars.
- #014
Helen Worth played her first grandmother role on screen at the age of 49 in Coronation Street (1960).
- #015
Helen Worth was appointed MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Platinum Honours List for services to drama. She is an actress based in London, England.
- #016
Helen Worth trained at the Corona Academy (now the Corona Theatre School), which was founded by Rona Knight.
- #017
After finishing school, Helen Worth went directly into a repertory company.
- #018
Helen Worth was born in Leeds; her family moved to Morecambe when she was 2 years old, and she moved to London when she was 15.
- #019
Helen Worth is one of thirteen Coronation Street (1960) actors who have had characters give birth on the series but have never been able to become mothers in real life. The others are Doreen Keogh, Anne Kirkbride, Caroline Milmoe, Naomi Radcliffe, Angela Lonsdale, Vicky Binns, Georgia May Foote, Natalie Gumede, Ellie Leach, Nicola Thorp, Sally Carman and Channique Sterling-Brown.
- #020
Helen Worth's first television role was in the crime drama series Z Cars (1962) when she was 10 years old.
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