Name	Helen Worth
Height	5'5
Naionality	England
Date of Birth	7 January 1951
Place of Birth	Ossett, Wakefield, England
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Worth was born to parents Alfred and Gladys Wigglesworth in Ossett, Wakefield, Yorkshire, and grew up in Morecambe, Lancashire, where her parents ran a small seafront hotel.[1] She was brought up in a middle class family and attended private school.[1] At the age of eight her parents fostered Ghanaian born Wilson Kpikpitse. Kpikpitse — sent to Britain as an overseas student at the age of eleven — remained with the family for eight years, but moved on following the death of Worth's mother, who was killed in a hit-and-run road accident while she was on a visit to Brighton.[1]

Worth's grandmother lived in Bradford and ran a boarding house for music-hall stars, which prompted her desire to perform. She took dance lessons from the age of three, and took part in many school theatrical productions. At the age of ten, she read stories on Granada Television's Scene at 6.30, and appeared in an episode of BBC's Z-Cars. At the age of twelve she played one of the von Trapp children in a stage production of The Sound of Music, at the Palace Theatre in London, a role that kept her in London for nine months. Following this she returned to Morecambe to finish her education and later attended the Corona Stage Academy in London.
[edit] Career

After graduating from drama school, Worth worked in repertory theatre, which included a year with the BBC Radio repertory company. She has had roles in films such as Oliver! and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), and has appeared on television in Doctor Who story Colony in Space (1971), The Doctors, Helen: A Woman of Today (1973), Within These Walls (1974) and The Canforth Practice (1974).

She joined Coronation Street in 1974 and has been with the soap ever since. Since arriving on the Street as Gail Potter, Worth's character has married four times, has had three children and has been involved in some of the soap's biggest storylines, including a marriage to the serial killer, Richard Hillman, who at one stage attempted to kill her entire family.

In September 2006 Helen Worth was honoured with an Outstanding Achievement award at the Inside Soap Awards for her performance as Gail in Coronation Street, a role she has played for over 30 years.Recently, Helen has said she never plans to quit the street, saying she's happy with Gail's never ending drama, and that its a job she loves.In an interview with GMTV in January 2010, Helen said she loves Gail's storylines and praised the writers for giving her some great plots over the years, for which she hopes will continue [2]