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from Sharpe’s Enemy (1994)

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#the energy of this interaction

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Flying Officer Fitz Fitzgerald !!

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Oh, my sweet Fitz! *sob*

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot #28, “The Theft of the Royal Ruby” (1991)

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Betting syndicate.

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Maurice I 1988 Academy Awards Nominee for Best Costume Design (Jenny Beavan, John Bright)

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Interview with Helena Michell about A Piece of Cake (ITV 1988) in the Northampton Chronicle Echo of 21st October 1988:

WHEN the script of ITV's big-budget wartime series Piece of Cake called for Helena Michell to strip for a love scene, it wasn't only viewers who were to be denied a glimpse of her assets.

"NOBODY saw anything," she coyly confesses. "It was a closed set—which means that only those people who absolutely had to be there were allowed to get close.

"And even they wouldn't have seen any bare flesh because I was covered in sheets and towels between takes."

Helena, daughter of actor Keith Michell, plays wartime wife Mary in the hit Sunday night series.

"Actually the love scenes were great fun and not at all sexy. Jeremy Northam, who plays my husband, is an old friend of mine since our days together at the Bristol Old Vic."

Helena, 26, who also appears in this Sunday's BBC TV play No. 27, has had a busy time since leaving drama school two years ago.

As well as Piece of Cake, she has made The Deceivers, with Pierce Brosnan, which has just opened in London.

"That was such fun to make," she said. "It meant spending two and a half months in India which was a wonderful experience."

She has also made another film, Maurice, as well as appearing in a Miss Marple story.

For now, though, she is concentrating on theatre. On November 2 she opens in J.B. Priestley's Time and the Conways, at Bromley.

There is talk of the play going into the West End after further stints at Richmond, Winchester, and Brighton, so she's keeping her diary open.

If it comes to nothing, bachelor girl Helena is unlikely to be out of work for long... even if it isn't in the acting business.

She wisely spent two and a half years in the "real world" in secretarial and advertising jobs, before going into show-business.

"So I can always go back to doing that—if anyone will have me."

Her film and TV work has netted her a small fortune but already most of it has been spent.

"I spent a lot of money in India. It cost a fortune to phone home and I was tempted to buy a lot of lovely things, like carpets. But most of it went on a home, which I have bought with friends."

Her proud parents will be in the audience on the opening night of her play.

"Dad is very pleased with what I'm doing... but he's never encourage me or dissuaded me to go into the business. I think it was just a foregone conclusion that I would follow in his footsteps eventually."