Helen Raynor

Helen Raynor (born March 1972) is a British television writer and script editor. In 2015 she was lead writer on ITV's Mr Selfridge, starring Jeremy Piven, after joining the writers' room for series 3 in 2014. Before that Raynor was, with her partner Gary Owen, co-creator and writer of Baker Boys, a BBC Wales drama about a recession-hit small town in the south Wales Valleys. Baker Boys ran for 2 series in 2011/2012. Russell T. Davies acted as creative consultant, and the show starred Eve Myles, Matthew Gravelle, Mark Lewis Jones, Amy Morgan, Steven Meo, Boyd Clack and Cara Readle.

Raynor's TV writing career started while she was working as a script editor on the relaunched BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. She wrote 4 episodes of Doctor Who and 2 episodes of the spin-off series Torchwood. She also wrote Cake, a fifteen-minute television short for BBC One's Brief Encounters strand shown in May 2006, and for radio, a sixty-minute play Running Away with the Hairdresser for BBC Radio 4, broadcast in June 2005. For the theatre she has written Waterloo Exit Two, a short play presented as part of Paines Plough's Wild Lunch season at the Young Vic in 2003, and contributed to Cardiff based Dirty Protest's series of rehearsed readings.

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