Helena Blackman

Helena Blackman
Birth name	Helena Blackman
Origin	Southampton, United Kingdom
Genres	Pop, Musicals, Theatre
Instruments	Singing
Years active	2006 – present
Website	Helena Blackman

Helena Blackman (born 10 December 1982 in Southampton) is a British musical theatre actress best known for being the runner-up in the hit BBC1 Reality TV programme How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?.

She trained at the Guildford School of Acting.

On 29 October 2006, Blackman was seen as Gypsy Rose Lee in a production of Gypsy which was performed at the Wales Millennium Centre as part of the Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre. In December 2006, Blackman played Dorothy in an acclaimed run of The Wizard of Oz at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester.

Blackman is a much in demand cabaret performer at corporate events, she has been featured as a soloist in The Night of a Thousand Voices at the Royal Albert Hall and in Tim McArthur's one-man show Sister Mary McArthur Comin' At-Cha! at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London.

In May 2007, Blackman was seen mentoring contestant Ben Ellis in an episode of Any Dream Will Do and in July 2007 she appeared as a soloist on BBC Radio 2's long-running Friday Night is Music Night opposite Daniel Boys. Blackman toured the UK extensively as the lead role of "Nellie Forbush" in a successful run of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific from 2007 - 2008.

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